Risk of Rain is a small and compact rogue-like platformer. In this game, you'll battle your way through huge waves of increasingly difficult monsters and bosses with different unlockable classes. Each of these classes has 4 unique abilities that can immobilize enemies, among other things, or give you the ability to dodge enemy attacks. The game uses a randomly generated mechanics, which allows different mobs to spawn at different locations. The longer you stay in the game and waste time on the quite large maps, the more difficult the difficulty level becomes. While at the beginning of the game all opponents are quite weak, they scale to a level of difficulty that seems impossible. Apparently. However, over time you will learn how to deal with your opponents and kite them (kiting means that if you run away from your opponent and are attacked as little as possible). Through the different and many items and artifacts the game gets many possibilities and variations to play this. However, if you die, you will be punished with a perma-death and must start the game again.