How to Port Forward Risk of Rain

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September 19, 2018 (Last Updated: ) | Reading Time: 2 minutes

Risk of Rain is a 2D, Action, and Adventure game published by Chucklefish released in 2013.

Risk of Rain has the following styles of play.

How to Port Forward Risk of Rain

When you are playing Risk of Rain 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 locate your router's IP Address

The easiest way to navigate to 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

Use our Network Utilities for a quick way to get your ports forwarded. Network utilities makes it easy to enable and disable your port forwards to keep your network security as tight as possible. You can also do it by hand by following these steps.

The process for forwarding a port is usually:

Ports Required for Risk of Rain

The specific ports that need to be forwarded for Risk of Rain are as follows:

Risk of Rain - PC

  • TCP:
  • UDP: 11100

Risk of Rain - Playstation 4

  • TCP: 1935, 3478-3480
  • UDP: 3074, 3478-3479

Risk of Rain - Switch

  • TCP: 6667, 12400, 28910, 29900, 29901, 29920
  • UDP: 1-65535

Risk of Rain - Steam

  • TCP: 27015-27030, 27036-27037
  • UDP: 4380, 11100, 27000-27031, 27036

If you want to follow guides that are custom tailored to your exact router and Risk of Rain simply follow one of these links:

That's all it takes to get your ports open. Don't forget to check out our growing list of games and programs.

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