As if simple knowledge of that mechanic weren't enough, a difficulty meter hangs in the upper-right corner of the screen, letting you know precisely how difficult your next wave of opponents will be. Soon after landing in each area, a bevy of enemies will begin to spawn around you, gradually increasing in both strength and number as your game clock ticks upward.

Of course, getting out of your current predicament isn't as simple as tracking down a piece of rogue teleportation equipment. In addition to the new characters, game progression will also reward players by adding new items to the pool of potential upgrades you can find while exploring Risk of Rain's myriad stages. You'll only have access to the Commando at first, but nearly a dozen additional Risk of Rain characters can be unlocked via the game's achievement system, fifteen of which correspond to actual Steam achievements. Risk of Rain sees players take controlling one of ten crash survivors, each of whom have four unique skills/abilities, and tasks you with tracking down the teleportation devices that will (eventually) let you make your way off the desolate planet where your spaceship crashed.

More than three decades after Rogue first inspired a legion of unflinchingly difficult, procedurally-generated video games, Risk of Rain proves there's still plenty of room to improve on a genre that could easily claim to be one of the most heavily represented in recent years.

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