Risk of Rain is a Game that is fun and interactive. The game is a roguelike. you get to choose your charter and you get to use their abilities to get loot and take on bosses and challenges.
The gameplay loop never really gets stale unless you have done everything and I mean everything. It's a pain sometimes to grind but if you play with friends it makes the experience 10 times better cause one of you will be under level or geared and just die in an all out shoot out and they manage to scrap by with 14 hp only for a pack of whisp to spawn and finish them off.
The story in Risk of Rain 2 is beautifully crafted and is perfected by its music. In Risk of Rain 2 the gameplay twists into a 3d playing field and makes the game 10times or fun then the OG, but some OG fans disagree. All in all the story is very well crafted and is a sight to behold if you really get into it.
There is a wide selection of characters you can choose. There are metas of course but all characters for the most part get screen time due to their unique style or abilities.
Dlc is some of the fans most exsiting times because that means new stuff and more time to play with freind. The new dlc seekers of the strom have players one edge at any moment so they snag it and hop on with the boys to play the new characters.