![]() ![]() Assuming you can live long enough (spoiler: you probably won’t be able to) you can amass truly amazing swaths of loot, turning your character into a veritable conduit of death incarnate. The Lens Maker’s Glasses, for instance, grant a 10 percent chance to deal a critical for double damage per pair of glasses found during a run. The most interesting thing that separates Risk of Rain’s item acquisition from those of, say Binding of Isaac or Dungeons of Dredmore is that, with a few exceptions, all items can be gathered more than once, and will stack linearly each time. Turns out you were delivering quite a batch of curiosities, ranging from stuffed teddy bears that grant additional armor to portable mounted missile launchers, every item on the ship grants you some kind of benefit. The only solace you have against the alien hordes is the plethora of cargo that was scattered from your ship to the planet’s surface. All the monsters must be slain before moving on. ![]() To move from one level to another, you have to activate a teleporter, which summons a large batch of creatures and activates a countdown. The game escalates in difficulty the longer you play, so while things start out relatively calm, it can get our of hand quickly if you don’t push forward. Wait, I said simple, didn’t I? As it turns out literally everything on the planet wants to kill you, and has made it their life’s goal to do so. Once on the planet surface your task is simple: find a way back to the ship and get off the planet, alive. All the cargo is ejected, as well as an escape pod. One day, as you pass an alien world, a mysterious being warps aboard the ship and wreaks havoc, summoning strange beasts and bringing the ship down. ![]() The premise is simple enough: You are a crew member aboard the UES Contact Light, an interstellar delivery ship. Enter Risk of Rain, an action roguelike by Hopoo Games and published by Chucklefish. That being said, if said deliveries take place on an alien world quite literally bursting at the seams with murderous creatures, things get considerably more interesting. Generally speaking, “Deliveryman Simulator” is not high on my list of preferred gaming genres. ![]()
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