How To Open Ports in Your Router for Risk of Rain Returns

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Risk of Rain Returns is Gearbox Publishing's 2D, Action, Survival, and Shooter game released in 2023.

Risk of Rain Returns game cover artwork
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Ports Required for Risk of Rain Returns

The exact ports for Risk of Rain Returns are as follows:

Risk of Rain Returns - Steam

  • TCP: 27015, 27036
  • UDP: 27015, 27031-27036

Risk of Rain Returns - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1024-65535

We have guides that are custom tailored for Risk of Rain Returns that will show you the incoming ports.

Risk of Rain Returns includes the following genres of gameplay.

Forward Ports for Risk of Rain Returns

When you are playing Risk of Rain Returns you might need to forward some ports in your router. Forwarding ports is a useful trick in gaming because it can really help to make your network connection most stable and frequently even faster. Routers were not designed to allow incoming network requests and some games can play tremendously better if an incoming connection is forwarded through the router to the game.

Before You Forward a Port

Before you can forward a port you need to know the following things:

How to click the links to get to your router's IP Address

The easiest way to find your router's IP address is to run our free Router Detector utility. It's a part of the Network Utilities suite of tools and it's completely free to use.

How To Forward Ports

Most people use our Network Utilities software package to forward ports. It's the fastest way to forward ports when you need them and then close them when you do not. You can also do it by hand.

The process for forwarding a port is generally:

That should do it; your ports are now forwarded. Need something else forwarded? Check out our list of games and programs.

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