Ruinarch

Abandoned. Little content for what was promised.

Unfinished abandonware.
Devs took the money and ran.

Cool Idea, bad execution, not really that fun

Abandoned

Very tragic to me personally that this has been abandoned. It was fun, I had hopes for it. The modding community basically doesn't exist in any capacity anymore.

Devious lick. Well played devs.

Clearly this was too hard for you, so you've gone and made a typing game, great.

A game with so much potential abandoned by the devs.

Had a great premise of essentially a "reverse Rimworld", being super in depth at a top down view, playing as an evil god doing evil things. But, the game got sort of left in an early access limbo, then suddenly pushed out in a rushed release that stripped some features and shattered the community. Hopefully somebody else revisits this idea in the future.

abandoned

It had a nice style and promising gameplay but somewhere it got halted and crippled hard, lots of bugs and some missing basic thing that should be not a random spel........

it had a lot of promise but allas, here we are

blue ribbon and free from this ruining my mood game, it's fun in the first 1-2h but be warned it will be booring fast............

"We know it has been a while since our last update. After the 1.1 update, our intention was to keep pushing out updates to address the issues raised by our players. Unfortunately the truth is that the sales of the game were impacted by our poor V1 launch, and we had to make a hard decision to secure funding and focus on our next game to keep the company afloat. I’m sure a lot of you are aware of the layoffs and company closures happening in the industry right now, and we’re trying our best not to become a part of the casualty list."
-from the most recent update, may 15, 2024
i kinda get what they're saying, but it still feels like they just booked it with our money. game's like 10% cooked & it kinda fucking sucks

The game had a lot of potentinal but the developer abandoned it after making it worse. I really hope we will see a better similar game by other developers that gives us a feeling of "reverse-rimworld"

Liked the game but sadly it was abandoned. Buy this if you like the current gameplay loop but the limited content.

unfinished game no update

I hope Maccima knows how disappointed we all are.

Sort of a half-baked game, I really don't recommend buying in this state unless updates begin again from the developer. They have a good thing going here, it just needs more work that maybe they're unable or unwilling to do for whatever reasons.

left the game unfinished

Whats with the slew of developers just abandoning their games.
Avoid any new games by this dev team

Was a cool concept, had a lot of potential. Was confirmed as abandoned by the DEV's. Not worth getting in it's current state. Quite a sad outcome for a cool game. :/

Game was utterly ruined by corporate greed. Will never buy from this developer or publisher again.

A decent God game where you play an evil God.

I actually liked this game. it was fun, and I enjoyed playing and scheming. Extremely disappointing to see the game abandoned, and the devs using ugly AI images that the game definitely did NOT need. DO NOT BUY

Managed to get worse with every update

stay away

wish someone would update and continue it... I've looked for games like this there are none. This was a cool game with a lot of potential and it's been abandoned. Don't buy it unless the devs return to bring the game to its full potential.

Publisher bs. They didn't finish what could have been a great game.

Early accesss scam/abandonware. There is litterally no reason to go here. Avoid.

so much lost potential bro

not even worth pirating

I got it to support the devs which was a waste. I'm so sick and tired of these promising Early Access ripping off customers. They fully knew how crap the game was at launch and blamed the poor sales as the reason to abandon it. They shifted blame on the publisher in a 'publisher paid' update to add trading cards.
Note: Game uses AI assets poorly and will no longer be getting updates.

BUYER BEWARE - ABANDONWARE - EARLY ACCESS SCAM

AI Icons, a team that gave up, and underdeveloped systems. Dont waste your time.

AI Icons? no

used to be good

As all other reviews say: the game's amusing for a couple hours, and then it goes downhill fast.

This was an awesome idea of a "Reverse Rimworld where YOU are the Storyteller", be Randy Random!
Except things needed more polish and more time in the oven before calling it a 1.0. It still feels largely some form of demo, with the actual cool features falling short of feeling complete, and no real campaign to give a feeling of progression or purpose.
A big shame really, as this would've otherwise become one of the niche indie gems to scratch a very particular itch.

Seems like such an awesome game. What a stupid thing to give up on.

New update means they care enough to tend to it when they can.

this game was actually really cool and alot of fun at first, sadly its obvious the devs have abandoned ship. game hasnt been updated in a long time, no new features, only removed features, honestly sad.

good for a laugh. burns to quickly. Needs more naturally guided instructions to create the big specifically fun interactions.

This game is a great indie god game. It has a lot of really creative systems, like the plague designs, the personalities, the rumors and intel gathering, the AI parties that run around the mop dungeon delving and killing mobs, etc. The abilities are fun and creative to use, whether you just want to blow everything up, craft the perfect zombie disease, or spread sedition through information and schemes.

AI generated Icons. Honestly kind of a disappointment to find that after returning back to it.
I thought the Imp was ugly because it was intended to be ugly but no its AI.

Im trying to justify my negative review because i could tolerate alot of the crust of the game but it felt weird it was solely a sandbox and not a series of RTS esque missions. UI was also really weird.

Buyer Beware, AI Icons, dropped features, and abandoned development.

This game was promising, with a great concept. The devs took feature after feature out, eventually slapping together a dry 1.0 version.

Fun for a few hours if you get it on-sale

One of a handful of games where you get to play a near-but-not-quite-omnipotent evil figure and screw with people. In that regard it's a fun time. It does also feel a little unfinished and is occasionally buggy (1 ctd, 0 corrupt saves in ~13.5h) but considering what it aimed for and what it costs, I can recommend it if you're looking for an evil godsim.

It has the skeleton of a great game, but never quite achieved that potential so it just lives in perpetual mediocrity. If it's on sale, the game can be a fun time sink for a little while, there's fun little stories that develop as the game goes on which you can take an active part in and have fun with it. I was one of the backers of That Which Sleeps who saw this recommended as a game that, unlike that dreaded kickstarter, would be finished. Technically they were right, the game has been officially 'released'. Just sucks every fun evil god game falls into the same issue of never quite being loved enough to finish. Sad.

Honestly, this game was great in the early versions. I don't know what went wrong with the full version of the game. It feels like it lost 60% of what was there in the early versions and nothing new was added. It's just sad what happened to this game

Unfinished

devs disappeared, don't buy

It's rare to see a game so deliberately ruined by a developer.
Feature after feature was REMOVED from the game for NO LOGICAL REASON whatsoever, leaving an empty, boring husk of a once-enjoyable game.

Unfinished game. A pity, really.

I believe the developers could draw valuable inspiration from games like Norland and Songs of Syx. This game isn’t bad by any means, but it doesn’t quite stand out either, largely because the core concept wasn’t fully realized or executed to its full potential. That said, the team clearly has the creativity and talent to develop fantastic ideas, even if this one fell a bit short. Hopefully, they’ll build on what they’ve learned here to deliver an even higher-quality experience in the future.