Risk of Rain 2 has more than 3 million players

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Risk of Rain 2 had the makings of a success story pretty early on – in its first month of Early Access last year, the action-packed roguelike game attracted a million players. Now, months after its full release on Steam in August, Risk of Rain 2 boasts more than three million players, and its daily player counts are on the rise.

The three million figure comes from a LinkedIn profile (spotted by Twitter user Timur222) belonging to a brand manager for Risk of Rain 2, Chris Faylor, who has been working on Risk of Rain 2 as part of Gearbox Publishing. Describing his current role with Gearbox, Faylor says part of his job has included the “initiation, planning, and execution of marketing projects for Risk of Rain 2, resulting in over 3 million players to date.”

That’s an impressive figure by any measure, but Faylor may actually be lowballing it. According to PlayTracker, which uses a cycling sample analysis to extrapolate user data on games, Risk of Rain 2 has about 4.3 million players. SteamSpy, which uses a proprietary method to extrapolate user data from achievement percentages, estimates anywhere from five to 10 million owners.

Hopoo Games isn’t planning on resting on its laurels, however. The core team has doubled in size (from three to six developers), and the 2021 roadmap includes a free anniversary update in March that adds a new survivor, a new boss, new items, and plenty more.


Towards the end of 2021, Hopoo plans to release a paid expansion, one that’s “around 2-3 content updates in size” and “the biggest infusion of new content that RoR2 has received.”



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AnimePosted:

Not heard of this until now. But great they have 3 mill players.

AnhurPosted:

Fair warning, don't get this game on console. Its ~30 fps in most areas and we don't get updates until 2 months later and at that point they relese another that we have to wait for.

CrossfitPosted:

ive heard of this game but have yet to play it. Will be trying it out soon

GroguPosted:

3 million player holy shit, i've never actually heard of this game