You can stand under my um-ber-rell-a

During yesterday's House of Indies broadcast, Nintendo announced that Hopoo Games' Risk of Rain Returns will be coming to the Switch platform in 2023, alongside its previously announced PC release.

Published by Gearbox, Risk of Rain Returns is a remastered and enhanced edition of the smash hit 2013 platformer, initially devised by two Washington University students using Gamemaker development software. Players take part in a challenging race against time, as stranded space explorers who must quickly and efficiently mount a defense against enormous waves of aliens and monsters. Simple in concept but hugely compelling, Risk of Rain would go on to sell over four million ??copies and be the recipient of several awards within the creative sphere.

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Risk of Rain Returns is a fully revised version of the original game, which features remastered visuals, (well, as much as you can "remaster" 8-bit graphics), 15 unique Survivor classes, 10 run-altering Artifacts, and fully overhauled multiplayer modes �featuring support for one-to-four players in online and local co-op action. While the game itself is now approaching its 10th anniversary, the Risk of Rain gameplay remains?? as frenzied and engr??ossing today as it was a decade ago. Time to get lost, all over again.

Risk of Rain Returns launches in 2023 on PC and Nintendo Switch.

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Punch, navigate, and look out for rain

??Day 2 of Nintendo's House of Indies holiday event is upon us, and the team is opening Door #2. Two more shadowdrops have arrived, as well as two announcements of upcoming games slated for 2023.

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First up, the play-it-now games for today. The Captain is a new narrative adventure from Sysiac Games and Tomor?row Corporation. You play a lost science officer from the space fleet, trying to work their way back home with some precious info. Lots of choices wait to be made, as well as big space battles to get caught up in.

If penguins are more your style, The Punchuin is a new game from The Touryst team Shin'en. You play as a penguin who punches things, and is trying to see ??all there is to see on Punch Mountain. It's part match-three puzzle, and part-charming exploration and adventure, but all punchy penguin.

Forecast calls for more rain

Two more games got revealed today too, locking in for a 2023 launch window. The first is The Gecko Gods, a puzzle platformer from Inresin and Super Rare Originals. It asks, "what if a gecko could explore a mysterious and dangerous island?" It's all in the pursui??t of saving their friend, who I hope is also a sma??ll and adorable gecko. That's set to arrive in 2023.

A popular roguelike is also on the way back, too. Risk of Rain Returns is a remastered version of the original Risk of Rain from Hopoo Games and Gearbox Publishing. It looks to have all the 2D chaos of the original, but with a new coat of paint a??nd apparently new ways to play in store too. The rain returns in 2023.

There are s??till three days left?? this week in Nintendo's House of Indies advent calendar. Tune back in tomorrow morning for the next bout of indie surprises for the Switch.

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