Risk of Rain (2013)

RIP Risk of Rain! It was fun while it lasted! Take-Two and 2K games have updated all their games Terms of Service, turning this game as well as all of their other games into literal spyware.

EDIT AS OF 2/28/2025: You are forced to agree to a new EULA and forced into arbitration in order to play the game while connected to the internet. Review changed to Negative. This review harvesting is getting excessive, and they're planning on banning people who discuss glitches and cheats in a PvE, campaign-driven video game.

Updated 2025, RIP this great game, Changed TOS and EULA killed the game : Important Info in Terms of Service: • Mods of all kinds are a bannable offense • Display of Cheats/Exploits is bannable • Forced arbitration clause and a waiver of class action and jury trial rights for all users residing in the United States and any other territory other than Australia, Switzerland, The United Kingdom, or The Territories of The European Economic Area • You can be banned for using a VPN while connecting to online servers • Cannot access game content on a Virtual PC Collected Data Types: • Identifiers / Contact Information: Name, user name, gamertag, postal and email address, phone number, unique IDs, mobile device ID, platform ID, gaming service ID, advertising ID (IDFA, Android ID) and IP address • Protected Characteristics: Age and gender • Commercial Information: Purchase and usage history and preferences, including gameplay information • Billing Information: Payment information (credit / debit card information) and shipping address • Internet / Electronic Activity: Web / app browsing and gameplay information related to the Services; information about your online interaction(s) with the Services or our advertising; and details about the games and platforms you use and other information related to installed applications • Device and Usage Data: Device type, software and hardware details, language settings, browser type and version, operating system, and information about how users use and interact with the Services (e.g., content viewed, pages visited, clicks, scrolls) • Profile Inferences: Inferences made from your information and web activity to help create a personalized profile so we can identify goods and services that may be of interest • Audio / Visual Information: Account photos, images, and avatars, audio information via chat features and functionality, and gameplay recordings and video footage (such as when you participate in playtesting) • Sensitive Information: Precise location information (if you allow the Services to collect your location), account credentials (user name and password), and contents of communications via chat features and functionality.

Negative review for Eula update. Just a reminder that there's nothing wrong with playing a game you purchased via other methods. You have no duty to agree to the Eula.

Risk of Rain is the granddaddy of Megabonk. Put some respect on its name.

---{Graphics}--- ☐ You forget what reality is! ☐ Beautiful ☐ Amazing for its age ☐ Good ☑ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Paint.exe ☐ Don‘t look! ---{Gameplay}--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It‘s just gameplay ☐ Meh ☐ Staring at walls is better ☐ Just.. don‘t. ---{Audio}--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ Earrape ---{Audience}--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☑ Human (?) ---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA for a spare computer ---{Difficulty}--- ☐ Just press ‚A‘ ☐ Easy ☐ Significant brain usage ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☑ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{Grind}--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if you care about leaderboards/ranks/achievements ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You‘ll need a second life for grinding ---{Story}--- ☐ Story? ☐ Text or Audio floating around ☑ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It‘ll replace your life ---{Game Time}--- ☐ Extremely Short ☑ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☐ To infinity and beyond! ---{Price}--- ☐ It’s free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ Wait for sales ☐ If you have some spare money left, I guess.. ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money! ---{Bugs}--- ☐ Never heard of ☑ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☐ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs --------------

I don't know why I'm surprised that the insane outrage mob found its way to a barely known indie game, but... I am. If you see reviews around this time, you'll be seeing fear-mongering about getting banned for using mods and all this talk about how you're being spied on. The reason for this is a EULA passed down by the publisher, that goes on every game they are involved with (To be clear... this was written for modern multiplayer games). I don't even think Risk of Rain has a method of banning people. Risk of Rain is not spying on you. Use your heads. And to give an actual review, unlike all the ones I'm referencing: The game is good. It's a simple, easy to learn rogue-lite, with a surprisingly large amount of content. The playable characters are all very unique and have interesting attacks and movement options.

Risk of Rain might be a good game, but not being able to play this game with a controller properly is an unacceptable design flaw. You can move the pointer by controller and navigate through the menu that way, but that's about it. The same goes for the Steam Deck. I could put in some effort and rebind every single key, but I rather go and play Dead Cells instead.