![]() ![]() Your evil realm feels a bit lacklustre… but interfering with mortals is fun. This is helped by the archetype selection and ability to choose between different upgrades, but it can also leave you as a Necromancer with very little in the way of undead at your command. The core gameplay loop is quite loose however and to be enjoyed requires the player to get into roleplaying somewhat where you decide on your own objectives and focus on working towards them with specific tools rather than just using every ability on cooldown. In yet more words, you are the evil guy using minions and spells to accomplish your nebulous yet nefarious plans by screwing with your fellow residents of whichever fantasy world you find yourself upon. Ruinarch can be described pretty well as “Dungeon Keeper for Rimworld” or to say that you’re the storyteller Randy Random tormenting a hapless Rimworld player. Updates were steady throughout this time adding and improving many features leaving a relatively smooth but very obviously indie game at release. Created by Filipino developer Maccima Games and published by Squeaky Wheel Studio, Ruinarch released into Steam Early Access in August 2020 and just saw its final release on April 24, 2023, so it had a moderate 2.5 years of early access development. Perhaps it’s one you won’t come back to regularly, but Ruinarch is definitely fun for a few playthroughs at least so that might dictate the price point you pick it up at if you’re interested. It does, however, fall far short of its potential and is somewhat clunky in its approach which prevents the game from becoming one of the genre greats, unlike the recently reviewed Clanfolk. ![]() Ruinarch flips the script and has the player take the role of the evil storyteller rather than the civilization builder – you get to unleash your inner Randy Random on the hapless denizens of a fantasy world, and it can be a lot of fun if you enjoy setting your own goals and telling a story rather than “winning”.
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