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Rise to Ruins

87% positive of 7,243 Steam reviews

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Unknown
Everything
Unknown
Released
2019
Steam Deck
Playable
Known on
Steam, GOG, itch.io

Made by Raymond Doerr. Published by SixtyGig Games.

About the game

A brutal godlike village sim that melds the god game, management, and tower defense genres! Fight off hoards of monsters at night, and expand your village in the day time. Inspired by games like Black and White, Rimworld, and Dwarf Fortress but not quite like any of them.

What sets it apart

  • Colony Sim
  • Tower Defense
  • City Builder
  • God Game
  • Base Building
  • Survival
  • Pixel Graphics
  • Strategy
  • Sandbox
  • Resource Management
  • Simulation
  • Roguelike

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What players say

  • Not recommended
    I love this game but sadly its been abandoned when there is so much untapped potential laying underneath. This game came around way before the incremental boom and could have been fleshed out over the years but instead its been left to languish and now has been surpassed by many games that came along and built off the ideas this game first put forward.

    72 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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  • Recommended
    Rise to Ruins – A wonderfully weird hidden gem that deserves so much more attention! Rise to Ruins is one of those charming little games that somehow manages to fly completely under the radar, despite being an absolute gem. It's a wonderfully strange combination of village simulation, survival, and tower defense, where you're constantly balancing the needs of your growing settlement against the increasingly…

    38 h played when written. 0 found it helpful.

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