Environments are the playable stages within Risk of Rain 2. Traveling between main environments is done via the Teleporter. There are currently nine main environments available to be explored. After finishing the fifth environment, the challenge Deja Vu? is unlocked and the stage sequence loops. It is not possible to visit multiple environments of one stage in a single loop.
Each environment has three or more stage variations, with most changes being single features, such as a door being opened to reveal extended areas. Environments can contain secrets, and hidden treasures.
Hidden realms are environments not accessible through stage loops. These environments usually have requirements that need to be met to be accessed.
Contents
First Stages
Second Stages
Third Stages
Fourth Stages
Fifth Stage
Final Stage
Hidden Realms
Also known as intermission stages. Mysterious places where time seems to stop.
Environment Logs are found within each Hidden Realm. Upon being picked up, they unlock the Logbook Entry for the corresponding environment. They appear as a small shiny book on the ground in a set location and will always spawn. If you are playing in a group, only one member of the party needs to pick up the log for everyone to get the Logbook Entry.
Looping
"Loop" redirects here. For the item, see 
Genesis Loop
Fire an electric nova at low health.
Falling below 25% health causes you to explode, dealing 6000% base damage. Recharges every 30 / (2 +1 per stack) seconds ..
Looping occurs after leaving the Sky Meadow by using the Primordial Teleporter in its shifted state, or by exiting through a portal to a Hidden Realm such as Bulwark's Ambry or the Bazaar Between Time regardless of the Primordial Teleporter's alignment. Once this is done, the game will loop around to the first environment set. This repeats infinitely until the player obliterates themselves at the Obelisk in a Celestial Portal, beats the game, or dies.
Once the player loops, several stages will have new enemies spawn on them, these being;
Jellyfish for Distant Roost and Titanic Plains- Hermit Crab for Titanic Plains
- Alloy Vulture for Scorched Acres
- Clay Templar for Abandoned Aqueduct
- Void Reaver for Rallypoint Delta, Siren's Call and Sky Meadow
Additionally, after looping, monsters can spawn as Malachite and Celestine Elites.
Doing one full loop completes the challenge Deja Vu?.
Version History
- Bug Fixes
- Altered geometry slightly to make more difficult to accidentally go out of bounds on many stages
- Fixed more occlusion issues in Sundered Grove and other maps that cause objects to disappear at certain camera angles
- Fixed transparent blue spawn point debug visualizers for certain map objects (like explosive pots) being visible to non-host players
- Quality of Life
- 🌧 Update ‘Time Crystals’ and ‘Explosive Pots’ to have proper character model setup and proper strings so they are highlighted and named when pinged
- 🌧 Update Fusion Cells and Explosive Pots so they can detonate each other
- Major Content
- Added 2 Stage Variants
- ‘Stage Variants’ is a new system for CU3 that allows stages to have multiple layouts. We chose the first stages as a test ground for Stage Variants since they are the maps you see most often - our hope is that this system can help keep the game fresh, even when entering the same maps!
- Added 2 Stage Variants
- Bug Fixes
- Fix some spots in maps that could cause you to be stuck
- 🌧︎Fix falling enemies never properly being removed, resulting in spawns stopping after shoving enough enemies off the map
- Gameplay Changes
- All Stages
- ☂ Can now spawn Legendary Chests post-loop
- Can now spawn Category Chests
- Enable more batched meshes to help performance
- Update pillars, rocks, boulders, and logs causing “stuck spots” on certain maps
- All Stages
- QOL
- Grant kill credit to last attacker for enemies that fall out the map
- Bug Fixes
- Advancing through intermissions no longer counts as an addition to stages passed or maximum stages cleared
