Difficulty affects how hard the game will be to play. There are two types of difficulties in Risk of Rain:
Starting Difficulty[]
The Starting Difficulty is the difficulty that the player can set at the beginning of any game. There are a few differences between each respective starting difficulty:
- Different starting cash
- Different starting health
- The harder the difficulty, the quicker the in-game difficulty rises with time
- Enemies do more damage on harder difficulties
- More frequent boss spawns on harder difficulties
- Chests/shops etc. cost more on harder difficulties
- Teleporters take longer to activate on harder difficulties
There are three starting difficulties a player can choose from:
- DRIZZLE
- DRIZZLE -
Reduces difficulty for players new to the game.
Weeping and gnashing is replaced by laughter and tickles.
Progress is not saved in this mode. - RAINSTORM
- RAINSTORM -
This is the way the game is meant to be played!
Test your abilities and skills against formidable foes. - MONSOON
- MONSOON -
For hardcore players.
Every bend introduces pain and horrors of the planet.
You will die.
DRIZZLE[]
- DRIZZLE -
Reduces difficulty for players new to the game.
Weeping and gnashing is replaced by laughter and tickles.
Progress is not saved in this mode.
Starting Gold: $35
Scaling Difficulty Duration: 9 minutes
Teleporter duration: 90 seconds
Base Health is increased by 50Hp
Heath Regeneration per level is increased by 1.8HP/second
RAINSTORM[]
- RAINSTORM -
This is the way the game is meant to be played!
Test your abilities and skills against formidable foes.
Starting Gold: $15
Scaling Difficulty Duration: 4.5 minutes
Teleporter duration: 90 seconds
MONSOON[]
- MONSOON -
For hardcore players.
Every bend introduces pain and horrors of the planet.
You will die.
Starting Gold: $15
Scaling Difficulty Duration: 3 minutes
Teleporter duration: 120 seconds
Blighted enemies have a chance to spawn on this difficulty.
Scaling Difficulty[]
The Scaling Difficulty is the difficulty that increases after the start of a game. A scaling difficulty simply means that as time increases, so does difficulty. Represented in a bar on the HUD, every minute increases the enemies’ power and spawn count, developing a great sense of urgency. [1]. There are currently ten named scaling difficulties, starting with "Very Easy" and ending with "HAHAHAHA":
| Difficulty | |
| HAHAHAHA | |
| I'M COMING FOR YOU | |
| I SEE YOU | |
| Impossible | |
| Insane | |
| Very Hard | |
| Hard | |
| Medium | |
| Easy | |
| Very Easy |
The scaling difficulty does not stop increasing once "HAHAHAHA" is reached, although the bar runs out of room.