At least one Newt Altar spawns in every level, and it takes one Lunar Coin to activate it. Once you have at least 11 coins the first thing you need to do is locate a Newt Altar.

Lunar Coins randomly drop from enemies, and you can also get 5 coins for Obliterating at the Obelisk, which also unlocks another character. ArtificerĪrtificer is a character that you can get as soon as you have 11 Lunar coins found around the world. This will inevitably happen over the course of your gameplay, so there’s really not a fast way to unlock him other than by playing like you normally would. To unlock the Engineer, you need to complete 30 stages. The Engineer character is where things start to get a little more difficult. You could still just keep playing the game as normal and you’d unlock him pretty quickly anyway, especially on Drizzle difficulty. An easy way to do this is to beat the first teleporter, exit the run, and repeat that 4 times until you unlock him. To unlock this tank of a character, you need to complete the first teleporter event 5 times. MUL-T is another character that’s insanely easy to unlock.

Just activate the teleporter like normal and you’ll be able to play as Huntress. Also, if you enter the blue portal on stage 3 instead of activating the teleporter, you won’t unlock her either. If you’re playing multiplayer and die during it, it won’t count towards the unlock. All you need to do to unlock Huntress is to reach and complete the third teleporter event without dying. Huntress though is probably the easiest character to unlock, especially on Drizzle difficulty.

Once you unlock all of them you can play the game on higher difficulties CommandoĬommando is the only character unlocked by default, so you don’t need to worry about completing any challenges to get him. For each of these characters, I recommend putting the game on Drizzle difficulty just so you unlock them faster.

This short guide includes all the characters as of Risk of Rain 1.0. Each character is pretty simple to unlock, so I’ll give you a quick breakdown about how to easily unlock each one of them. One of the first things I did in Risk of Rain 2 is unlock every character, because doing that gives you even more ways to play the game.

Risk of rain 2 character unlocks