There are thousands of mech parts waiting to be found in RIG Riot, but you’ll have to survive long enough to bring them home first.
Launching on Steam today, RIG Riot is a third-person mech-action roguelike from solo developer Sage Boatman that sends you out on increasingly dangerous raids. You’ll fight through waves of enemies, complete objectives, level up, and grab new weapons and Volatile Mods as you go, building something capable of surviving whatever the next stage decides to throw at you.
Make it back and the parts you’ve discovered are yours to keep, giving you even more options for the next raid.
Every Raid Is Going to Get Harder
Once you’re inside a raid, RIG Riot wastes little time putting your mech to work. You’ll move through a series of increasingly difficult stages, taking on enemies while completing objectives and looking for anything capable of keeping your run alive. Leveling up gives you more opportunities to strengthen your RIG as you go, while the weapons and Volatile Mods you find can send your run in different directions.
There’s plenty of choice in how you actually fight too. Sniper rifles let you keep your distance, automatic weapons can tear through enemies considerably faster, and missiles are there for anything that looks like it needs something larger fired at it. Or you can forget about keeping your distance entirely. Shotguns and laser blades are waiting if getting considerably closer to the problem sounds more fun.
Volatile Mods Can Change a Run
Weapons are only one part of what you’ll find while you’re out there. Volatile Mods provide temporary upgrades during a raid, with different effects capable of working together and pushing your RIG toward increasingly powerful combinations. Finding the right ones can make a huge difference once the enemies start getting tougher.
That’s where some of the roguelike experimentation comes in. You could head into a raid planning to fight one way, only to find a weapon or collection of Mods that gives you a much better idea. The further you get, the more important those choices become as the difficulty continues to climb.
Bring the Good Stuff Home
Not everything disappears when a raid ends. RIG Riot has thousands of permanent mech parts to discover, gradually giving you a much larger collection to work with between attempts.
Those parts are built from different combinations of components taken from complete RIG sets, allowing you to put together a machine suited to how you want to play. Legs, weapons, and other components can all contribute to something very different from whatever you took out last time. It means progression happens on both sides of a run.
Inside the raid, you’re leveling up and working with whatever weapons and Volatile Mods you manage to find. Back home, you’re using permanent parts to change the RIG you’ll take into the next one. Considering how many parts there are, you’ll probably have a few options.
RIG Riot Rolls Out Today
RIG Riot has already given players a chance to try its mech combat through a free Steam demo, but today the full game is ready to roll out. The complete release brings additional stages, RIG parts, leg types, bosses, progression, achievements, music, and secrets beyond what’s included in the demo, giving you considerably more to find once those raids get underway.
There’s a nice loop at the center of it all. Head into a raid, complete your objectives, deal with whatever tries to stop you, and hopefully come back with something useful. Then do it again when everything gets harder.