ruina: resources for the forgotten ruins

_{(last updated august 5 2024)}

"who is this for?"

mostly for people who have already downloaded and played through (or are currently playing through) the fan-translated english version of the game and want to know more stuff about it.

"i want to play it!"

download the full EN game here!although it comes pre-packaged with easyRPG player, i wrote a little about which version to use with the EN fan translation here. tl;dr: for new players, the one that comes pre-packaged with the game is just fine, but you might want to try another version later.

"i want to share a resource with you! / i need some help with the game!"

shout into the void on twitter/x while mentioning the game's full title, or post on r/ruinarpg and there's a 50% chance i'll show up like syphon "asking" for the dead book. if you hate both of those websites, i apologizeif there are any other EN ruina-related communities out there, i haven't found them (yet.)

"i heard there was a novel?"

there are two volumes and they're only available in JP as far as i know. i don't have them (yet.) so i can't write a guide on how to purchase them, but you may know more about ordering online than i do, so:- you can buy them on bookwalker (JP) here
- or from amazon (JP) here

"there's a remake announcement!"

this site is only for information on the original free game and not updates on the remake, but have these links:- watch the trailer here
- dengeki online (JP) article on the announcement here
- gematsu (EN) article on the announcement here
- 4gamer (JP) article on the TGS 2023 demo here

• english fan-translation of the game
• original japanese game (creator's site)
• original japanese game (freem link)
• korean fan-translation of the game
• ruina JP wiki (has complete guides)
• r/ruina EN subreddit
• EN spreadsheets for items, etc (twitter/x thread)
• JP/CN/KR/EN character names list
• additional lore (creator's website, JP)
• more lore (interview with the creator, JP)
• taiga monogatari

let's play ruina! (somethingawful LP)

can function as a guide if you don't want to dig through the JP wiki, and has a bunch of nice notes on things that got lost in translation.

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ruina TVtropes page

has some nice information about the lore in case you missed stuff (spoilers for all the routes, of course). character tropes are here. i cannot vouch for the accuracy of the information in these pages.