Regions Of Ruin

Regions Of Ruin asks for the sort of patience that comes with slow map clearing, light role-playing, and a side view of a damaged world. By our assessment, its appeal is the mix of exploration, settlement repair and side-scrolling combat, with the satisfaction of opening up a rough region piece by piece. The downside is that the same slow pace can make the loops feel plain, especially when the combat and progression do not vary much from one stretch to the next. In practice it is a game of scraping resources, moving through dangerous ground and gradually making a broken place usable again. It sits between a small-scale action RPG and a survival-building game, though it does not have the polish or scale of the bigger names in either camp. Regions Of Ruin is best for players who like quiet, incremental progress and do not mind repetition when the map slowly yields; others will likely want more combat texture or more dramatic progression.