Risk of Rain

Well, in my opinion. I just finished crapping all over the sequel on Steam and felt kinda harsh, so I came to GOG to praise the original. This game is tight, well paced generally, and doesn't fail at anything it's trying to do. Does it do everything else perfectly? No, but it's still fun. And it runs on potato peels. And has tons of challenging replay value. Good game! $10 is a fair price.

Short story: If you like roguelikes buy it. Long story: Excellent progression, addictive gameplay, hard as a rock and at times unfair, and at the same time incredibly fun. The soundtrack is excellent. Linux version can be a bit problematic with two controllers, however the windows version runs great both on WINE and PROTON. Regards.

Risk of Rain seems made for an arcade machine from the 80’s. Looks like dog-shit, minimal to no story, kill hordes of enemies just because they will kill you otherwise, fantastic music and an utterly broken balance that seems to be made to lead you into an inevitable dead and another coin for the slot monster within 15 minutes of play, and yet… it seems to work somehow. The simple graphics make it possible to pile hundreds of enemies on screen, create frantic battles and keeps gameplay smooth. The randomness, in particular the types of items you find, can break a run or can set you on a killing spree. Risk of Rain is a simple slide scrolling action game with a bit of platforming. You have the arrow keys and four basic skills with a short cool down. Slowly, monsters get spawned while you are looking for a portal that summons a boss creature. Then hell is unleashed. If you get killed you restart, or if you killed you clean up the level of strangling monsters and continue to the next setting. There are only four settings, and you are given a choice to repeat the cycle or go to the end stage with a multi-level end boss to finish the game. You unlock new items by complete achievements, which are simple to extremely challenging. New items can, from then on, drop. Each picked up item stacks, with crazy combination possible. There is a RoR II released. It looks better with 3d-graphics, but from gameplay footage it does not seem to add to the simple, yet addictive gameplay of RoR. A testament that good gameplay may do without graphics.

Yes, one of the best, undoubtedly, it's so fun and hardcore so don't expect a walk in the park, it gets so intense when you have a lot of time in one level, there's a fair amount of content I've only beat it once with one character, so you can beat it with every character and unlock more stuff, honestly this game is too damn underrated just buy it and have fun!

One of the first encountres I had with a rogue like game when it came out, and it´s still one of the games I return every once in a while due to it being so much fun.