Ruinarch

Ruinarch is a simulation sandbox set in procedurally generated fantasy worlds. You play as an overlord, using infernal tools to provoke conflicts and manipulate villagers’ lives, shaping stories of drama and dark comedy.

Choose your approach

Three overlord Archetypes offer different playstyles, from causing widespread destruction to manipulating events more subtly. You can combine elemental effects to create spells of your own: hurling a meteor at a poisonous puddle, for example, produces poisonous meteor explosions.

Manipulate villagers

You can afflict villagers with conditions and use what happens to turn them against each other. Give a local hero Lycanthropy and his childhood friends may turn on him when the full moon rises. Make a loving husband unfaithful, then reveal the infidelity to his wife.

A Beholder Structure lets you spawn Eyes around the world to gather information. You can store what they witness as Intel, such as a Knight stealing a Shaman’s Potion, and tell the Shaman about it.

Build your schemes

You can capture or seize roaming monsters and breed them in your Kennel for specific functions. Then send monster parties to kidnap villagers or raid villages. Captured villagers can also be imprisoned and brainwashed into cultists, who secretly worship you and help bring about your return to the world.

Build a Biolab to infect villagers with Plague and summon Plagued Rats. You can upgrade the plague to add symptoms and increase its virulence, including making infected victims explode when they die. The Plagued dead can rise as zombies, whose attacks may spread the virus to other villagers until the village is filled with the undead.

Vampirism and Lycanthropy turn villagers into creatures of the night that terrorize their neighbors and spread their curses. The village may eventually fight back with Vampire and Lycan Hunts.