The excellent 2013 roguelike action-platformer Threat of Rain (opens in new tab) is coming again in a “superbly remastered” kind known as Threat of Rain Returns (opens in new tab), which is ready to reach someday in 2023 with new survivors, secrets and techniques, artifacts, expanded multiplayer providers, and all kinds of different additions and enhancements.
“Do not consider this as only a lick of paint on an outdated traditional,” Hopoo group supervisor Jonathan Cheetham mentioned in at this time’s announcement video. “Threat of Rain Returns fully overhauls the unique and introduces a ton of latest content material. It has an upgraded code base so we will proceed to replace and add to the sport with options that weren’t beforehand doable.”
Cheetham confirmed that each one the content material from the unique Threat of Rain will return “with superb new HD pixel artwork,” and the audio results and music have additionally been up to date and expanded. New survivors have been added, whereas present survivors have been given model new skills to unlock; there are additionally new enemies, stage variants, and objects, some introduced from Threat of Rain 2 and others brand-new for the remaster. There’s additionally an all-new recreation mode, “revamped multiplayer so there is not any extra messing with router settings like in Threat of Rain 1,” and “numerous rebalancing and gameplay tweaks.”
“Threat of Rain Returns is an entire new recreation and an upgraded expertise from the unique Threat of Rain,” Cheetham mentioned.
Cheetham additionally addressed the elephant that is been within the room for the previous month: Gearbox’s possession of Threat of Rain. The Borderlands studio bought the sport in November (opens in new tab), which led to rapid predictions of doom and gloom from followers. However Cheetham mentioned the sequence is in good fingers.
“Gearbox has been the trusted writer of Threat of Rain 2 for a few years now,” he mentioned. “They’ve a love for Threat of Rain that matches our personal and are the very best match for taking the franchise into the long run.”
Hopoo Video games may have full artistic management over Threat of Rain Returns, which Gearbox is publishing; after that, it turns into a full-time Gearbox present.
“We all know the IP is in wonderful fingers and we will not wait to see what the long run brings for Threat of Rain with Gearbox on the helm,” Cheetham mentioned.
Threat of Rain Return is ready to come back out someday in 2023. It does not have a particular launch date but, however as a whole shot in the dead of night, I’ve to assume that November 8—the tenth anniversary of the unique Threat of Rain—is perhaps a reasonably good guess.