Games like Risk of Rain Returns
If Risk of Rain Returns is your kind of game, the closest matches are Risk of Rain 2, Deep Rock Galactic and Toypunk — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its pixel art aesthetic, replayability through secrets and challenging. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →Risk of Rain Returns is a 2D action roguelike platformer developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing, released in 2023 at $14.99 and verified on Steam Deck. Players describe it as challenging, epic, intense, and nostalgic. The game combines 2D platforming with procedural generation, difficulty scaling, item synergy, and skill-based aiming. Reviewers highlight tight 2D platforming controls and wavedashing mastery as standout features, while players appreciate how the late-game becomes comically overpowered and the substantial replayability offered through hidden secrets. The pixel-art aesthetic and local co-op support contribute to its massive scope. The game holds a 95% positive rating from over 16,600 Steam reviews.
About Risk of Rain Returns: Carefully designed, beautifully remastered, and loaded with new ways to play—Risk of Rain is back and better than ever! Dive into the iconic roguelike full of unique loot combinations, enhanced with new Survivors, overhauled multiplayer, fan favorite content from Risk of Rain 2, and more!
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Risk of Rain 2
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Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Top pick for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Deep Rock Galactic
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Second-strongest match for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Deep Rock Galactic is a 1-4 player co-op FPS featuring dwarven space miners, procedurally-generated destructible environments, and endless hordes of alien monsters. Explore cave systems, mine for minerals, and work together to survive!
Toypunk
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Third-strongest match for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
A roguelite third-person puppet-shooter where you wield an entire toybox of absurd weaponry. Fight hordes of cotton-stuffed baddies across fantastical biomes in single-player or co-op. Experience crazy synergies and unlock more toys between runs!
ActionSteam ↗Vastloop
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Ranked #4 for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Contract signed, body issued. Vastloop is a co-op roguelite FPS about expendable combat androids in the mines of a hostile planet. Shields feed on death, medkits don't exist, extraction is a privilege. You're a line item for Terra-Mine Corp. Every run — a chance to earn your keep.
Cosmic Corps
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Ranked #5 for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Dimension hop to freedom across hostile planets. Blast, slash, and laser alien hordes while crafting powerful synergies by combining unlockable skills with infinitely stacking items and perks. Become unstoppable in this action roguelike—and confront the Entity beyond the Rift.
ActionSteam ↗Guns & Dragons
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Ranked #6 for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Dragons? Magic? Who cares? Fight with overwhelming firepower in this co-op FPS roguelite. Fight, choose, grow stronger. Science vs. magic. Fight enemies in dungeons, pick runes and artifacts to craft your build, use materials to expand your base, develop deadlier weapons, and take down dragons.
Son of a Witch
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Shares procedural generation and an intense mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Ranked #7 for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Action roguelike for 1-4 players with cute graphics and deep game mechanics. Combine dozens of different weapons, magic items, potions and spells with unique effects to beat 8 enemy factions and 28 bosses. Can you find the ancient goblin artifact at the end of the dungeon?
DROSS
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Ranked #8 for Risk of Rain Returns fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
DROSS is an FPS Roguelike set in a derelict facility infested with alien bugs. Travel a procedurally generated world, get powerful weapons and equipment, and upgrade your gear to survive. Fight the Dross, discover and destroy the infestation, and uncover the secrets of this mysterious installation.
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Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
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 online co-op.
Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
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Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play.
The third entry in the Monster Hunter Stories RPG series is here! Twin Rathalos, born in a twist of fate. Monster Hunter Stories is an RPG series set in the Monster Hunter world, where you can become a Rider, raising and bonding with your favorite monsters.
Warhammer 40,000: Darktide
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Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Take back the city of Tertium from hordes of bloodthirsty foes in this intense and brutal action shooter. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide is the new co-op focused experience from the award-winning team behind the Vermintide series. As Tertium falls, Rejects Will Rise.
Terraria
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Dig, fight, explore, build! Nothing is impossible in this action-packed adventure game. Four Pack also available!
MapleStory
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Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Join over 260 million players worldwide in MapleStory, the world’s biggest 2D MMORPG adventure! Play now for free.
Slay the Spire
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play.
We fused card games and roguelikes together to make the best single player deckbuilder we could. Craft a unique deck, encounter bizarre creatures, discover relics of immense power, and Slay the Spire!
Monster Train
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Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain Returns cross-mention this title as a similar play.
Monster Train is a strategic roguelike deck building game with a twist. Set on a train to hell, you’ll use tactical decision making to defend multiple vertical battlegrounds. With real time competitive multiplayer and endless replayability, Monster Train is always on time.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Risk of Rain Returns at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
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Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Priced ~67% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
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Priced ~53% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
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Priced ~47% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
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Priced ~70% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Noita
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Priced ~47% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
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Priced ~93% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
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Priced ~80% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
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Priced ~67% under Risk of Rain Returns on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Free alternatives
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Bongo Cat
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive (CS:GO) expands upon the team-based action gameplay that it pioneered when it was launched over 2 decades ago. CS:GO features new maps, characters, weapons, and game modes, and delivers updated versions of the classic CS content (de_dust2, etc.).
Grimm's Hollow
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
Iron Snout
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Iron Snout is a fast, colorful and brutal fighting game in which you will be helping a piglet fight for its life against hordes of wolves.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
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More from Hopoo Games
Other recommendable Steam games by Hopoo Games, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Risk of Rain 2
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Another title from Hopoo Games, the studio behind Risk of Rain Returns. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
Escape a chaotic alien planet by fighting through hordes of frenzied monsters – with your friends, or on your own. Combine loot in surprising ways and master each character until you become the havoc you feared upon your first crash landing.
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Another title from Hopoo Games, the studio behind Risk of Rain Returns. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
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 online co-op.
DEADBOLT
WHY THIS
Shares procedural generation and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain Returns.
Another title from Hopoo Games, the studio behind Risk of Rain Returns. Shares Action with Risk of Rain Returns.
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.
Frequently asked about Risk of Rain Returns
- Is Risk of Rain Returns verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Risk of Rain Returns is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Risk of Rain Returns cost?
- Risk of Rain Returns is listed on Steam at 14.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Risk of Rain Returns have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Risk of Rain Returns supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Risk of Rain Returns?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Risk of Rain Returns are Risk of Rain 2, Deep Rock Galactic, Toypunk.
- Who developed Risk of Rain Returns?
- Risk of Rain Returns was developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.
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