Risk of Rain a roguelike-like in the making.

So Risk of Rain is a new Sci-Fi Roguelike game that is currently in alpha and free to donwload from here. The game starts you with two characters, the comando and the minner, and three difficulty levels. Also the game difficulty increses as time goes on, using the money the enemies drop you can buy items to help you survive longer. There are also bosses that appear.

Oooooh

Yeah the devs are planing to continue updating the game and considering doing a kickstarter campaing some time in the future.

I like the new trend with the more actiony roguelike-likes and roguelikes in general that seems to come up.

Yep, there have been some new roguelikes coming up lately like Delvers Drop.

I forgot, most of the items gives you a passive effect but some of the items you fing can be used pressing G and those have a unlimited uses with a cooldown of 4o something seconds.

This game is sweet I got to the snow level once but then i got swarmed and died. The best item I've found so far is the one that let's you drop a ton of mines, it's great for killing bosses.

I never got past the first zone, the closer I got was after killing the giant fire Worm (with helps from that mine launching item) and when I activated the teleporter a giant flying jellyfish boss appeared to kill me

Hey, a sidescrolling roguelike that isn't Spelunky? Count me interested.

(Not that I dislike Spelunky, it's just that I'm curious as to why other "action-roguelikes" like it haven't been made.)

edited 11th Mar '13 4:21:45 PM by Zennistrad

Yeah, sidescroling rouguelikes could have more love.

So in my last run I managed to somehow last almost 30 minutes! (29:37 to be precise) Got to the third zone and then it got nasty when the game decided to drop me a boss after boss after boss. A thing I noticed is that if you have three drones the knockback of them and the comando shots can keep the enemies at bay quite nicely. The boots that leave a damaging trail of fire are quite good and there is the drill that will crack the heavens!

New version! http://riskofrain.tumblr.com/post/45822005067/risk-of-rain-demo-v1-0-1

Also don't forget to vote for this game on Steam Greenlight. http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=131467288

edited 20th Mar '13 7:33:54 PM by FlintlockWolfman

Excelent!

They also anounced a kickstarter for the following week. Seems they want to raise $7000 to pay for the musician and to get a new version of Game Maker, I'm pretty sure they will get the $7000 quickly and easily supass that goal.

And the Kickstarter is live!

The devs of Risk Of Rain will be on this stream to talk about the game now that it has been sucsesfully kickstarted.

There is a stream with RiskOfRain review version, it also has one of the devs and Tiy of Terraria Strabound fame has offered a publishing deal if the watchers like the game (note that the stream has been going for 50+ hours and most of the people on it had little sleep).

Necro-ing this thread, since I've become horribly, horribly addicted to this game over the past few weeks. Been playing single-player lately (mostly due to unsuccessful attempts at port-forwarding), but if folks want to team up and try to tackle the game in co-op, I've recently figured out how to port-forward properly, so I could try my hand at hosting some games. Keep in mind that I live in Britain, so lag might get bad.

Same.

Need to try Enforcer again - the most recent patch reduced the cooldown for Protect and Serve, and you can now move while using it, albeit at a reduced speed. Enforcer was easily the weakest class before, although you could still do ok in multiplayer.

Been doing mostly Mercenary and Sniper runs to challenge myself, since those are the classes I'm worst with, but I also rediscovered Acrid recently - you can do some pretty silly things if you pick up items that proc on hit, since every time your Epidemic hits an enemy it has a chance to trigger them. It's also pretty funny to hit a Magma Worm with it, since each segment of it counts as a separate entity, so the Epidemic can spread to multiple segments and do a ton of damage to the boss at once.

Sniper pro tip by the way: you can jump and then reload in midair to keep yourself from being rooted in place.

bluh my sound broke and I don't know why. hopefully it'll go away after a restart, but for now I'm getting:

ERROR in action number 5 of Create Event for object oInit:

Error defining an external function.

Eee, really, really enjoying this game, and looking forward to the next update! :D

I'm loving just how DARK the game is, it really pleases me.

I want the Huntress class...fukken monster log takes so long to get...

Sniper is nearly impossible to play after 2nd stage or so...too many enemies, its AOE capability sucks.

edited 31st Jan '14 12:28:37 AM by onyhow

Sniper is an excellent support class. In a multiplayer game, the Sniper can easily oneshot bosses on the first couple of levels, and even in the later ones he does absurd amount of damage.

Either way, do your best to get a crowbar on your sniper. It makes him a monster.

It's possible, I saw a guy solo the game even after it got to HAHAHAHAHAHA level difficulty. It's HARD, but doable.

yesterday I did my best game ever :3 I only got to the temple, but by that point my poor little engineer had already gotten to the aforementioned HAHAHAHAH difficulty level. I was doing very well until I tried to fight the boss. The third or fouth boss for that level, honestly. a pair of toxic beasts. Even the mighty AOE Engie of death couldn't explodinate that many monsters.

Don't let anybody tell you Sniper's bad. I'm not super great with them or anything but I can still hold my own decently well on Monsoon. The thing with the Sniper is that they play pretty different from every other class in the game, and there is a high skill floor compared to the other classes.
In order to be effective with the sniper, you need to get good at reloading as soon as possible with the correct timing after firing, and bunny hopping in order to keep yourself from losing momentum when you fire or reload (you aren't held in place if you do either of those things in midair.)
And don't forget to use your spotter.

@deathonabun: Playing multiplayer with two or three people makes the game just easier overall.

@onyhow: Huntress is worth it. She's easily the most powerful class in the game. If you can find someone to play multiplayer with, it seems like monster logs drop a lot more frequently (for whatever reason) than they do in single player.

edited 7th Feb '14 9:16:00 PM by Osmanthus

^ That's interesting...so does anyone here wanna play multiplayer with me?

I wonder if this game is completely finished yet update wise... I mean it seems to lack arena mode from kickstarter.

Anyway, cool game and cool story. It one of those that works great even though you aren't given details :D And wonderful whamline(and easily missable ending cutscene thing. You can actually see the teleporter on board, but it blends with background like imp overlords on ship do so its hard to see.). Makes you wonder what really is going on and why this all happened...