Library of Ruina is not for the faint of heart. This is a very deep and complex experience. However the more you put into it, the more you’ll get out of its gameplay systems and story. This is a deck-builder where you battle a variety of enemies through a linear series of tales surrounding a magical library. The battles are fun and engaging, if a little grindy, and the story is engrossing, yet it’s the introduction and meshing of these ideas where the game suffers a bit. However that’s never enough to damper the experience and so if deep deck-building RPGs sound of interest to you, this might be right up your alley.
The introduction that sets up the story, and the general gameplay loop, is immediately where Library of Ruina suffers the most. Frankly, it does a terrible job easing you into the mechanics of the battles and the context of why they are happening….
