Risk of Rain overview

Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in an online co-op. With over 100 items at your disposal, you will find the tools you need to find the teleporter back home. Discover a myriad of randomly chosen stages, from the desolate forest to the frozen tundra.

The three main goals for our game are simple:

Design a game that is randomly generated every play-through, to keep replayability high and fresh.
Time = difficulty. The higher the in-game time gets, the harder the difficulty gets. Keeping a sense of urgency keeps the game exciting!
Be enjoyable, regardless of whether you win or lose. No more fussing with complex and non-intuitive gameplay patterns. Players should not blame the game for their loss!

Key Features

Engage in local and online multiplayer with friends and other players from around the world!
Play and unlock 12 unique characters, from the Commando to the Miner to the Engineer.
Fight through hordes of different enemies and bosses, randomly chosen by the game with random abilities and powers.
Get lost and discover 10 massive levels with different enemies, shrines, and chests on each one!
Recruit the help of a wide variety of drones, from missile drones to healing drones!
Unlock the lore of the game through the item and monster logs!
Unlock new items and characters through difficult achievements to keep the game fresh with each playthrough.
Save your best highscores and stats!

What’s new in version 1.3.0

Version 1.3.0:

Note: This product is not compatible with macOS Catalina and later.

Gameplay Changes:

Frost Relic now caps icicle spawns after 3 kills

Subsequent kills will now refresh the duration of existing icicles

This was done to combat late-game crashing at very high number of kills
Fireworks now caps with the Skeleton Key at 10 simultaneous releases

This was done to combat late-game crashing at very high chest numbers

Chargefield Generator now caps at a radius of 300 px

This was done to combat late-game crashing at very high number of kills

Bug Fixes:

Gameplay:

Game will no longer occasionally have players and enemies falling through the floor
Jumping off ropes now properly update all clients online

Crashes:

Disconnecting or completing the game with the Alien Head no longer crashes online
Disconnecting or completing the game with the Shield Generator active no longer crashes online
Disconnecting or completing the game with the Chargefield Generator active no longer crashes online
Worms/Wurms no longer crash when they lose their parent
Game no longer creates a "division by zero" error when the difficulty level is corrupted
Selecting a difficulty as a host on an online game at low aspect ratios between two difficulty choices will no longer cause a crash (wow)
Dropping a decoy on a geyser no longer crashes the game
Dropping a decoy on a slowing slime no longer crashes the game

User Interface:

Mouse no longer re-centers on room transition
Game completion now properly grants 100%
Fixed alignment of legend in highscore screen
Elite Bosses now all properly have elite suffixes
IP now properly displays in host menu
Port status now properly displays in host menu

Achievement:

The Gigantic Amethyst can now properly be unlocked
Fireman’s Boot achievement added to challenge list

Graphical:

Elite Ifrit now properly shows affix colors
Blue affixes no longer leave green bodies and vice versa
Imps now are properly colored when affixed
Colossus now properly distributes elite affix spawns
Fixed some clipping in character selection text
Fulminating Wandering Vagrant now properly has firey trails
Improved performance
Credits now scroll at correct speed

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