Risk of Rain 2's creators, along with 'many other' devs from Hopoo, have been snapped up by Valve—which means the end of the studio's unannounced game

Risk of Rain 2—and the series in general—has enjoyed plenty of success over the years. With the first game made by uni students Duncan Drummond and Paul Morse, and being somewhat of an indie smash hit, the second arrived in 2019 and also sold gangbusters, hitting 500,000 players in early access.

Then in 2022, the Risk of Rain IP shifted hands from Drummond and Morse's development studio, Hopoo Games, over to Gearbox—and, if the reception to its latest expansion's anything to go by, it's not, uh, been going great.