Ruiner

Only 4 hours and feels a bit padded towards the end, but the game-play is good and it's certainly stylish. Probably will play a few more runs through it.

My PC is beyond the recommended specs for the game so I decided to play it on max settings, all went smoothly, until I got to the end of the creepers' stage, game crashed with an error "Unreal Engine is exiting due to D3D device being lost", I read about it and tried to do some troubleshootingg, updating my drivers, reinstalling the game, using MSI afterburner to lower the GPU clockspeed, I even tried playing on minimun graphical settings, none of it works, the game keeps crashing during that boss fight, a shame, I was having fun

Ruiner is a very fun, brutal twin-stick shooter, with just the perfect mix of style and substance I've come to expect from a game published by Devolver Digital. The music, as allways, fits the action and theme of the game very nicely, and the main character is absolutely great. The way every battle seamlessly leads into a short score-count and on to the next area is just grand, and the unlock trees are very rewarding. I highly suggest this game.

Well as the title says... this game is well polished, has a great story and is so full of action that it is almost too intense, for me at least. The only small problem I have and I hope the devs see this if not address it, is that at some instances droped karma and skill points from enemies would fall from the floor and in to the "abyss" and were just lost. It didn't happen very often and it wasn't such big of a deal, but I think it's worth mensioning.

RUINER is an incredibly middle of the road title. The best part of this game is the witch house soundtrack and the character sketches. Everything else is forgettable. The story is basically just 'save your brother' but everyone has a CRT glued to their forehead. The gameplay is twinstick shooting and melee. You've seen it done better elsewhere. Graphics are pretty meh. The red/black color scheme is simply not very appealing and the only reason it isn't as grating as it could be is because RUINER is only like 3 or 4 hours long. The modeling is straight up bad, which is why I think they leaned on the color scheme. The sketches are great, until you see the in-game model too close. Then everyone looks like Gumby. There are skills and skill trees with various degrees of gamebreaking buffs. Dash forever? Yup, that's broken. Frag grenade with some big damage? Not really. Oddly enough it's kind of nice being able to customize your difficulty this way, but I'd rather just not have a skill tree and have a game balanced around consistent mechanics. I've heard people say the game is hard, and it kind of is before you get good skills, but I died more to my own stupidity than the game itself. Not paying attention to traps and trying to skirt by unavoidable damage during a puzzle segment killed me more than the actual combat. There are nice checkpoints too, so I think the game is fairly forgiving. Like I said: the high points are the music and the art. I think you could safely watch a stream or a Let's Play of this game and get the highlights. Your money is better spent buying the soundtrack on here instead. If you're a fan of witch house, there's some big names (within the tiny genre) here like Sidewalks and Skeletons. Buy the soundtrack, browse the concept art for an hour or two, and skip the game.