Ruinarch is a devilishly fun simulation game featuring procedural story generation. As an evil demon overlord creating havoc and invading fantasy worlds, a rich and fertile land lies before you; ripe for the picking. Take over regions one by one, spreading your influence inexorably towards the heart of the kingdom. Poison people's food, raise the dead, and inflict endless misery. Turn heroic defenders into pitiful wretches by unleashing an array of demonic spells upon them and create a hellish chronicle for the ages.

Weaving tales of anguish and woe are central to Ruinarch. You could simply summon a pack of wolves to attack the region, but a true evil overlord toys with his prey first. Turn the local village idiot into a cultist that secretly works on your behalf, and watch as he eagerly turns the tables on the villagers that mercilessly mocked him for his deficiencies. Inflict the local hero with lycanthropy and watch as his once loyal followers turn on him when the full moon rises. Or if you’re feeling lazy and don't want to come up with anything creative, just start a zombie apocalypse!

Each playthrough generates a random fantasy world for you to conquer, and different worlds offer varied situations for you to exploit, manipulate and corrupt -- providing unlimited replayability!

Originally scheduled for May 2020, Ruinarch is now available through Steam Early Access at $19.99.

Early Access launch is only the beginning of our very long term support for the game. By opening up development through an Early Access phase, we can more easily accommodate the many interesting ideas that players may come up with.

As a tiny indie team of just three people, budget is also always an issue. We didn't want to go the Kickstarter route where projects can sometimes overpromise and underdeliver. With an Early Access release, players can also support and keep us afloat but they also now have access to a fully playable game.

The Early Access version is a fully playable game where you can generate procedural worlds populated by various factions, monsters, landmarks, items and biomes. You then choose from three different Archetypes - each one a distinct playstyle with its own unique set of abilities.

This random world generator is still a work in progress and we don't expect it to be fully entertaining yet until we have enough content that it could always successfully generate unique and interesting situations. Therefore, we also included 5 custom scenarios with interesting setups and features and with high replay value like the demo's tutorial scenario.

More would be added every milestone. These are our "ideal" worlds and it is indicative that we are nearing the end of our early access phase once the random world generator can consistently produce similar worlds.

Key Features

• Generate an infinite number of procedural fantasy worlds
• Invade elven villages, human towns, bandit camps, ancient ruins, monster lairs, and much more!
• Build demonic structures with various world corrupting capabilities
• Summon minions and recruit cultists to assist in world domination
• Unleash powerful spells, dangerous monsters and mystical artifacts upon the world and watch the mayhem unfold
• Fracture the kingdom into multiple competing subfactions to weaken them from inside
• Wipe out the world’s defenders - each one equipped with complex AI that takes into account its needs, traits and relationships.
• Start an epidemic. (Probably too soon; but, yes you can.)

Ruinarch is currently planned for full release in 2021.