Risk of Rain 2 Guides
Pick a goal for your next run. Every guide is organized around the route, item, or decision you need.
Getting Started
Survivors
Risk of Rain 2 Character Unlocks: Survivors & DLC Requirements
Find every survivor’s base unlock challenge and DLC requirement, including Acolyte, Drifter, CHEF, and False Son.
How to Unlock Drifter in Risk of Rain 2: Lost in Transit
Follow the Alloyed Collective route to Solutional Haunt and use two Prison Matrices to free Drifter.
How to Unlock False Son in Risk of Rain 2: Halcyon Seed Route
Get Halcyon Seed at Gilded Coast, reach Prime Meridian, and defeat False Son to complete Purified Freedom.
How to Unlock CHEF in Risk of Rain 2: Order Up!
Bring Cautious Slug, Bison Steak, and Infusion to CHEF at Reformed Altar. Hand-ins carry over between runs.
How to Unlock Acolyte in Risk of Rain 2: A Broken Ritual
Find the Shrine of Descent, finish Soulbound Threshold, and revive Acolyte beside the exit to unlock her.
How to Unlock Loader in Risk of Rain 2: Guidance Offline
Break six vulture nests in Siren’s Call and defeat Alloy Worship Unit to unlock Loader without a DLC.
Items & Quests
Risk of Rain 2 Lunar Items: Costs, Effects & Trade-offs
Understand lunar item costs, passive versus equipment slots, and the trade-offs of Shaped Glass, Gesture, Purity, and Stone Flux.
How to Get Rid of Lunar Items in Risk of Rain 2
Use a Cleansing Pool for passive lunar items, replace lunar equipment, and avoid wasting time at a normal Scrapper.
Risk of Rain 2 Fuel Array Guide: Unlock REX
Take Fuel Array from an escape pod, keep it intact, and deliver it to Broken REX in Abyssal Depths.
Risk of Rain 2 Encrypted Cerebellum: Craft the Exposed Version
Get Encrypted Cerebellum, craft Exposed Cerebellum with Wandering CHEF, and open the Decrypted Portal to Solus Heart.
Risk of Rain 2 Prison Matrix: Locations & Uses
Find both Prison Matrices in Solutional Haunt and choose between rescuing Drifter and crafting Exposed Cerebellum.
Artifacts
Portals
Risk of Rain 2 Gold Portal: Gilded Coast & Halcyon Seed
Activate an Altar of Gold, enter Gilded Coast, and use seven beacons to defeat Aurelionite for Halcyon Seed.
Risk of Rain 2 Blue Portal: Enter the Bazaar Between Time
Use a Newt Altar and one Lunar Coin to enter the Bazaar, shop for lunar items, and return to your run.
Challenges & Endings
How to Obliterate Yourself at the Obelisk in Risk of Rain 2
Loop your run, enter the Celestial Portal, and confirm the Obelisk interaction to unlock Mercenary or finish the run.
Risk of Rain 2 Karma Guide: Enable, Disable & Raise Levels
Find the Karma menu, understand levels 0–8 and starting-level unlocks, and choose how much challenge to take to the moon.
Bosses
Builds
Risk of Rain 2 Railgunner Build: M99 Items & Reload Choices
Build around Railgunner’s M99 weak-point shots, add crowd clearing and mobility, and understand crit scaling and Backup Magazine.
Risk of Rain 2 Huntress Build: Strafe, Flurry & Item Choices
Compare Strafe and Flurry item priorities, build around Laser Glaive, and preserve Huntress’s mobility and survival.