Risk of Rain 2 is an Insane Roguelike

I wanted to share another roguelike that I recently started to play around with. As of yet, I've only shared roguelikes that I have already pretty much mastered and I felt like that probably greatly misrepresents the genre. To be fair, even once you master a roguelike you can still die in the blink of an eye due to the crazy nature of the genre, but let's look at Risk of Rain 2 today.

You'll probably notice some pretty immediate differences. First of all this game is fully 3D as opposed to the top-down or isometric games that the genre favors. Risk of Rain 2 feels like a constant race against the clock, which also makes it the most fast paced roguelike I've played. You have to balance finding items with getting to the exit of each stage quickly, because throughout your entire run there will be a meter that you can see in the top right which is progressively making the game more and more difficult.

This is actually the furthest I have ever gotten in this game. You'll be able to see just how much the difficulty ramps up over time if you watch the video. I manage to weasel my way out of death a few times, but it finally comes for me in the end. This was a very intense run and perhaps I'll upload another video to make it look easy in the future like I've done with Binding of Isaac, Enter the Gungeon, and Hades. Hope you enjoy and until next time, much love!