My checklist
Towering violet trees and overgrown ruins in an official Hallowed Concepts environment screenshot
THE HALLOWED CONCEPTS FIELD GUIDE

Risk of Rain 2Hallowed Concepts
Guide & Run Tools

Find your next step, check rescue items,
and track your next challenge.

OFFICIAL DLC SCREENSHOT · GEARBOX / 2K
INDEPENDENT GUIDE / OCTOBER 2026 RELEASESources, not guesswork
CONTINUE YOUR ROUTE

Prepare for the rescue

Enable Hallowed Concepts and keep an item with a successful rescue report.

Open Run Companion →
CURRENT CHALLENGE

Choose your next run goal

Keep one official objective in view, then mark it complete yourself.

Choose a challenge →

What’s your next move?

Pick up where your run needs help.
TWO WAYS INTO THE FRAY

Meet the survivors

HALLOWED CONCEPTS DLC
Acolyte in official promotional artwork
RESCUE REQUIRED

Acolyte

A glaive, a reserve of healing, and a second form.

OFFICIAL PREVIEW ARTWORK
Watch ability demonstration
Blade Slice

Follow the primary attack chain and its movement branches.

  • Input · Follow the Primary chain; Sprint branches to a lunge and Jump to an uppercut.
  • Look for · Compare the three-hit chain with the movement branches.
Official preview · 24 September 2026
Enforcer in official promotional artwork
AVAILABLE WITH DLC

Enforcer

Hold your ground. Make the next hit count.

OFFICIAL PREVIEW ARTWORK
Watch ability demonstration
Steel Protection

Watch directional shielding and the visible parry response.

  • Input · Face the attack with Steel Protection.
  • Look for · Directional shielding and timed reactivation for the preview parry.
Official preview · 24 September 2026

Useful now: recognize your rescue item

ALONGSIDE THE DLC

The free update counts, too.

Karma is an optional system that increases the challenge of the final moon encounter. Six returning survivors also receive new skills. These are free-update additions, separate from the paid expansion.

Read the official patch notes
CommandoSabotageSpecial
HuntressLaser CycloneSecondary
AcridCloying BreathSpecial
ArtificerTectonic BlastUtility
EngineerLaser CutterPrimary
REXProliferationUtility

Recent guide updates

Refined route completion, item feedback and challenge controls. Added paired mechanism comparisons and explained ability demonstrations. Expanded Dream Crucible, Soulbound Threshold and Reincarnation with distinct mechanisms and routes.

Know what’s confirmed. Official objectives, preview mechanics and successful player reports are labeled separately. Read our approach

FIELD GUIDE