Games like Risk of Rain 2
If Risk of Rain 2 is your kind of game, the closest matches are Toypunk, Risk of Rain Returns and Risk of Rain (2013) — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its escalating chaos rewards adaptability, mobility feels limitless 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 2 is a third-person action roguelike developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing, released in 2020 at $24.99 USD. Players navigate a chaotic alien world where procedural item generation and escalating difficulty create unique runs each time. Reviewers highlight how build variety makes every run unique, and how mobility feels limitless across diverse environments. The mobility system lets players chain movements fluidly while the escalating chaos rewards adaptability. Players describe the action as both challenging and intense, and the modding community extends longevity considerably. Steam players rate it at 95% positive across 160,098 reviews, and it runs as playable on Steam Deck for sessions on the go.
About Risk of Rain 2: 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.
Players who liked Risk of Rain 2 also play
Steam players who put hours into Risk of Rain 2 also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Toypunk
WHY THIS
Top pick for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
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 ↗Risk of Rain Returns
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Second-strongest match for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
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!
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Third-strongest match for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
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.
Arcane Blast
WHY THIS
Shares build variety and a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Ranked #4 for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Arcane Blast is a fast-paced, action-packed roguelike brimming with sorcery. Master the seven elements, combine them to achieve powerful reactions and face swarms of enemies to help feline Mage Adrian find his way home from a time dungeon.
Gunfire Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Ranked #5 for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Returnal™
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Ranked #6 for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
BREAK THE CYCLE Fight to survive as this award-winning third-person shooter brings Selene’s story to PC. Take on roguelike challenges. Engage enemies in bullet hell-fuelled clashes. Share your journey through Returnal™ with another player.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Ranked #7 for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Roboquest
WHY THIS
Shares build variety and an intense mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Ranked #8 for Risk of Rain 2 fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Roboquest is a fast FPS Roguelite in a scorched futureworld. You're a rebooted Guardian, ready to kick some metal ass! Fight with your buddy or by yourself and annihilate hordes of deadly bots in ever-changing environments.
Reviewers mention these as similar to Risk of Rain 2
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Megabonk
WHY THIS
Shares build variety and an intense mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Smash your way through endless waves of enemies and grow absurdly powerful! Grab loot, level up, unlock characters and upgrade to create unique and crazy builds as you fend off hordes of creatures!
Dead Cells
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Dead Cells is a roguelite, metroidvania inspired, action-platformer. You'll explore a sprawling, ever-changing castle... assuming you’re able to fight your way past its keepers in 2D souls-lite combat. No checkpoints. Kill, die, learn, repeat.
Hades
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Defy the god of the dead as you hack and slash out of the Underworld in this rogue-like dungeon crawler from the creators of Bastion, Transistor, and Pyre.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
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!
Celeste
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Help Madeline survive her inner demons on her journey to the top of Celeste Mountain, in this super-tight platformer from the creators of TowerFall. Brave hundreds of hand-crafted challenges, uncover devious secrets, and piece together the mystery of the mountain.
Gatekeeper
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Gatekeeper is a fast-paced rogue-like. Go on a quest to chase down Chaos and reclaim the stolen Heart of Time, fighting your way through relentless enemy forces. Play solo or in 4-player co-op and become the next Gatekeeper!
Enter the Gungeon
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Enter the Gungeon is a bullet hell dungeon crawler following a band of misfits seeking to shoot, loot, dodge roll and table-flip their way to personal absolution by reaching the legendary Gungeon’s ultimate treasure: the gun that can kill the past.
Noita
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Reviewers of Risk of Rain 2 cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
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.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Risk of Rain 2 at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under Risk of Rain 2 on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Risk of Rain 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
Left 4 Dead 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Risk of Rain 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 is a co-operative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans across five expansive campaigns.
People Playground
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Risk of Rain 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
WHY THIS
Priced ~60% under Risk of Rain 2 on Steam right now. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
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
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
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.
STRAFTAT
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
STRAFTAT is a 1v1/2v2 ONLINE first person SHOOTER with quick rounds in over 350 MAPS ; Including all WEAPONS, proximity chat and 4 players FFA.
Counter-Strike:Global Offensive
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
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.).
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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 Returns
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Another title from Hopoo Games, the studio behind Risk of Rain 2. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
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!
Risk of Rain (2013)
WHY THIS
Shares a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Another title from Hopoo Games, the studio behind Risk of Rain 2. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
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 a challenging mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Another title from Hopoo Games, the studio behind Risk of Rain 2. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Risk of Rain Returns
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Risk of Rain 2.
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!
Gunfire Reborn
WHY THIS
Shares an epic mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Gunfire Reborn is a level-based adventure game featuring FPS, Roguelite and RPG. Players can control heroes with various abilities to experience diverse Build gameplay, use various weapons to explore procedurally-generated levels. You can play the game alone, or join 4-player coop.
Nuclear Throne
WHY THIS
Shares an intense mood with Risk of Rain 2.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with Risk of Rain 2.
Nuclear Throne is a post-apocalyptic roguelike-like top-down shooter. Not 'the final hope of humanity' post-apocalyptic, but 'humanity is extinct and mutants and monsters now roam the world' post-apocalyptic. Can you reach the Nuclear Throne?
Frequently asked about Risk of Rain 2
- Does Risk of Rain 2 run on Steam Deck?
- Risk of Rain 2 is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Risk of Rain 2 cost?
- Risk of Rain 2 is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Risk of Rain 2 have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Risk of Rain 2 supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Online PvP, Online Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Risk of Rain 2?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Risk of Rain 2 are Toypunk, Risk of Rain Returns, Risk of Rain (2013).
- Who developed Risk of Rain 2?
- Risk of Rain 2 was developed by Hopoo Games and published by Gearbox Publishing.
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