Gearbox Publishing and developer Hopoo Games person announced Risk of Rain Returns, a remastered and enhanced mentation of the archetypal Risk of Rain for Switch and PC (Steam). It volition motorboat successful 2023.

Here is an overview of the game, via its Steam page:

About

Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with caller ways to play—Risk of Rain is backmost and amended than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike afloat of unsocial loot combinations, wholly caller Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, and more!

Uncover New Ways to Play

Hone your skills and abilities, observe caller Survivors, and dive into progressively stronger runs! Discover secrets of past plan lying dormant beneath the aboveground of Petrichor V. Search nether each log, stone, and Gup to find caller ways to play!

15 Survivors to Master

Many Survivors fled the mysterious onslaught connected your ship. Slice, dice, and service justness acold with the instrumentality of Chef, clasp the beforehand enactment and shield your squad arsenic Enforcer, oregon laic down a way of toxic sludge arsenic everybody’s favourite purple monster: Acrid! Forge caller paths to research with 15 unsocial Survivors, each with caller abilities to master. Two wholly caller Survivors are making their debut successful Risk of Rain Returns.

Play Solo oregon Gather Your Crew

Drop to the aboveground solo oregon with your crew! Choose Survivors that complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, oregon spell chaotic and take whoever has the largest guns (spoiler: it’s Loader). With up to four-player online and sofa co-op, you’re not unsocial successful this fight.

Risk of Rain Returns features caller and improved multiplayer services to guarantee the lone happening that gets betwixt your crew’s endurance are the ever-growing hordes connected Petrichor V.

Potent Pick-Ups

Fight your mode to the aboveground portion uncovering precious cargo. These items service arsenic your redemption, helping you determination faster, woody much damage, oregon leap a small higher. Still others empower you successful much melodramatic ways—like the uncommon Ukulele, which empowers your attacks with electrifying music.

If explosions are what you’re after, hunt down the Brilliant Behemoth and ticker arsenic adjacent your astir mundane attacks erupt successful a barrage of beauteous blasts. The magic comes successful the unpredictable combinations you create. Exploding concatenation lightning is lone the opening of your frenetic masterpiece!

The Dangers of Petrichor V

The denizens of Petrichor V are arsenic divers arsenic the galore planets they erstwhile called home. As these monsters approached extinction connected their ain worlds, a mysterious unit brought them to Petrichor V. The satellite rapidly grew to beryllium a menagerie of the astir unsafe monsters successful the galaxy, and they’re not thrilled by interlopers (aka YOU).

Rule-Bending Artifacts

Variety is the spice of destruction. Select from much than 10 Artifacts that each mutate your run! Perhaps you’d similar to commencement with a random instrumentality point that changes each clip it’s used, oregon possibly you’d similar to acquisition a rampant Imp penetration each 10 minutes. Play astir with combinations of Artifacts and observe breathtaking caller ways to play.

Watch the announcement trailer and a developer diary below. View the archetypal screenshots at the gallery.

Announce Trailer

Developer Thoughts