Managed to beat Risk of Rain Returns on Monsoon difficulty, without any Artifacts. It wasn’t even that hard, once I stopped trying to loop and went straight for the final level (looping and becoming a god is most of the fun though).

Then I installed some gameplay mods for a bit of variety, but an update broke like half of them, so I gotta wait for a fix.

As an alternative I played some Risk of Rain 2 for the first time since launch, along with all the DLC, and I got no idea what’s going on.