This or Risk of Rain Starstorm?

[TenmuGaming]

Title I guess, I've not played either one really.

[Kavrick]

Risk of Rain returns feels a lot smoother and a lot more modern compared to the original, I think I would recommend it over the original for newer players.

[Frisky]

if mod support comes out hopefully we can have both eventually

I love starstorm but RoR:R is so much smoother to play and easier to get multiplayer going on so I'd love to see starstorm content ported to RoR:R, starstorm is an amazing mod though and really extended my playtime of RoR1 even if all of it was solo

plus some starstorm content is already in returns like the equipment activator and even some of the alt abilities are reminiscent of the nemesis characters miner's alt secondary is so insanely close to nemesis miner's I'm positive there had to be some inspiration there

[laslax]

Both are good, but Risk of Rain Returns has easy to use multiplayer, (and it's new). If you aren't one of those folks crying about "modernization" and "mouse controls," then you should have no problem with Starstorm, but I would still get Risk of Rain Returns first for the online experience alone.

[DaBa]

I'd 100% pick this one. The only thing Sandstorm has over Returns is that is has new content this game does not have. But guess what, ROR Returns also has unique stuff Sandstorm doesn't have so you're missing out on things regardless which one you play.

And after that, everything else is simply better. Game looks way better, feels smoother and less clunky, is more stable, better multiplayer if you care about that. Also, I have zero doubt that with time we're going to see a bunch of mods for this game as well, maybe even a port of Sandstorm and it's content.