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Rise to Ruins is at heart a godlike village simulator, but it also throws in plenty of familiar game play mechanics from classic real-time strategy and resource management games like Black and White, Settlers, ActRaiser and many others. It also throws in some twists by melding in some tower defense and survival elements in an attempt to create. Rise to Ruins - Follow!About the GameRise to Ruins is at heart a godlike village simulator, but it also throws in plenty of familiar game play mechanics from classic real-time strategy and resource management games like Black and White, Settlers, ActRaiser and many others. It also throws in some twists by melding in some tower defense and survival elements in an attempt to create a new kind of.

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The Best City Building Games on PC

In the following list, we will Include only the best city-building games that will include classics to new titles and more.

Tropico Reloaded

Tropico Reloaded is a pack of two games and an expansion that you can get both on GOG and Steam. The pack includes both the first Tropico and the second pirate-themed game, and in both games, you take control of a small island nation and must build a thriving city. In the first game, you are the island's dictator and must stay in power through either peaceful or rigged elections. But in Tropico 2, you are the island's Pirate overlord and must build a thriving pirate haven.

  • Price: $5.99
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Caesar 3

Caesar 3 is an old but classic game that still holds up to this day. You play as a newly appointed Roman overlord of a small settlement in the game and must build it up to a thriving city to rival Rome itself. However, you will also need to deal with barbarian hordes, and even Rome itself, along with the troubles of managing a vast city.

  • Price: $5.99
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Northgard

Northgard is a Viking city builder where you control a Viking clan fighting for control of a new and mysterious land. The game has a ton of features and content and starts by asking you to pick one of six clans to play as that all have unique stats. After this, you must build a thriving settlement, assign jobs to villagers, survive in a strange new land, and expand and take new territory. Along with this, you will also need to manage your resources so that you can achieve victory over the other clans on the map.

  • Price: $29.99
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Pharaoh

Made by the creators of the award-winning Caesar III, Pharaoh is a city-building set in the ancient time of Pharaohs and mysterious gods. In the game, you must manage a small settlement at the behest of the Pharaoh and grow into a thriving city on the Nile. You can also build massive pyramids, and command soldiers to defend your city, and manage a growing metropolis. There's even a feature where you must appease the gods or face their wraith in the form of natural disasters and more.

  • Price: $9.99
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Endzone - A World Apart

Endzone is a new entry to the genre but arguably one of the most unique and interesting ones to this date. The game premise is that you must build a settlement after a global nuclear disaster and ensure its survival from all matters of dangers. Some of these threats include radiation, droughts, toxic rain, sandstorms, and even raiders. The game also features expeditions where you can send your people to forgotten lands for relics of the past and various challenging scenarios.

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  • Price: $29.99
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Rise to Ruins

Rise to Ruins is a godlike village simulator where you must build and manage a growing fantasy village and shield it from monster threats. In the game, you must build up defenses and fight off hordes of monsters every night and manage the needs of your villagers. The game also features free content and many game modes to play around with, such as survivaland traditional mode.

  • Price: $14.99
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Gameplay

A downloadable game for Windows, macOS, and Linux



Rise to Ruins is at heart a godlike village simulator, but it also throws in plenty of familiar game play mechanics from classic 90s era real-time strategy games like Settlers, along with some tower defense and survival elements in an attempt to create a new kind of village simulator. The goal is to try to bridge the gap between the depth and complexity of traditional village simulators, the fun of godlikes and the simplicity of real-time strategy.

Build a village, and die trying!

A major part of the game is village management, and trying to discover new and creative ways to use the tools at your disposal to keep yourself alive as long as possible. In this game, you will lose frequently, but with every failure you learn a little bit more about how to survive and apply that knowledge to your next attempt.

Several Game Modes

Currently, the game offers three game modes. Survival, Sandbox and Peaceful.
Survival is the game the way it was meant to be played, as a brutal survival style village sim, you will probably die often trying to figure out the best way to survive, but that's half the fun right?!
Peaceful is very similar to Survival, but it's balanced much like a traditional village simulator with some godlike and RTS elements sprinkled on top. The monster spawn rates are much lower, and the main focus is keeping your village happy and fed. It's a very easy mode, designed for casual players, or players just wanting to experiment.
Sandbox, like the name implies, is a mode where you can play around with the game mechanics. Change the time of day, weather, spawn monsters or villagers, or even edit the map while you're playing on it. This is the ultimate 'Screw around' mode for players wanting to play with the game mechanics.

Godlike Elements

Not only can you manage your village, but you also have many godlike abilities at your disposal. You can alter the terrain, blast enemies from afar, pick up objects or creatures, heal your villagers, speed up resource growth and all sorts of other fun godly stuff.

Tons of map set themes!

Every set of maps will follow a certain theme (Forest, Desert, Underground, etc). Most of the current screenshots only feature a few of these map sets. But many more are planned.

The Soundtrack!

A full original soundtrack, made by Bibiki Garcia that blends orchestral instruments in a way fans of old 1990s era PC gaming will love and remember!
SixtyGig Games is a DRM free independent game developer! Rise to Ruins will not now or ever in the future have any sort of DRM! Piracy protection only hurts you guys, the loyal paying players. So you rest assured knowing that once you buy yourself a copy of Rise to Ruins you'll never again have to concern yourself with nagging questions about if you can continue playing the game down the road due to something like always-online logins, lost registration codes or because you bought a new computer and you're only licensed to put the game on one. All I ask from you is to be reasonable and responsible, you can buy the game and play it as much as you like, wherever you like. Just tell your friends to support my DRM-Free philosophy and buy their own copy! Free Content Patches, no paid-DLC
I don't believe in paying for Downloaded Content. If you buy Rise to Ruins you will have access to the entire game and all the content I'll ever create for this it, forever! I believe DLC is greedy, and you deserve to have the full gaming experience from day 1, right out of the (figurative) box!
Your feedback is extremely important. You can reply here or head on over to the Official Website and help shape the direction of development! :)

StatusIn development
PlatformsWindows, macOS, Linux
Release date Oct 27, 2014
Rating
AuthorRayvolution
GenreSimulation
Made withAdobe Photoshop, Lightweight Java Game Library, Audacity
Tags2D, godlike, Pixel Art, Retro, Roguelike, Singleplayer, steam-key, Strategy RPG, Top-Down, Tower Defense
Average sessionDays or more
LanguagesEnglish
InputsKeyboard, Mouse
LinksSteam

Purchase

In order to download this game you must purchase it at or above the minimum price of $14.99 USD. Your purchase comes with a Steam key. You will get access to the following files:

RECOMMENDED: Rise to Ruins Update 1b (7-19-2020)751 MB

Development log

  • InDev 32 - The Localization Modding Update - Released!
    Feb 06, 2019
  • InDev 30b - The Optimizing and Balance Update - Released!
    Sep 25, 2018
  • Build InDev 31 Unstable 6 Released
    Sep 07, 2018
  • Build InDev 31 Unstable 4 Released
    Aug 18, 2018

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Hi there.

The official website link in the description seems wrong.
First off it unnecessarily redirects via Steam, then it redirects to a seemingly unrelated site (with self-signed cert). Please fix.
Nice game, I got it during the Halloween sale and played it for a couple of hours yesterday. I think it is mostly held back by the UI, which I find to be convoluted, overloaded and taking up far too much screen estate. I encountered a bunch of other issues and it's often hard to tell whether it's a bug or I just couldn't figure out how to do it. Builders insisted to repair all damaged buildings rather than building a new one that might have saved the colony. Builders sometimes didn't harvest nor get the stone required to build for unknown reasons. I can't figure out how to build new log roads, but the road builder happily repairs pre-exisitng ones. Manual install on Linux is a bit cumbersome since multiple files need to be marked executable first (at least start script and jre).
My first colony, on standard, didn't go well. First people died of heat (in the spring), then someone died of dehydration, then they died of starvation and the last remaining survivors got eaten by Zombies. Afterwards I could not continue playing because apparently for that you need migrants, so I had to reset the map. I was surprised that the world didn't get re-generated, it is exactly the same, only without my failed colony. Maybe peaceful mode is better for first time players.

Thinking about buying this game...

On Steam, its currently on sale, but i prefer Itch...

Will InDev 34, Unstable 2 be released?

Hi! I bought the Big Back for Meeple Station that was supposed to come with a Steam key for this, but I did not receive a key. How do I access the key? Thank you!

Hmm? Rise to Ruins has no affiliation with Meeple Station. Where did you see that? :)

Oops. It was 'Regions of Ruin.' Thanks, though. Sorry about that. :)

haha, that makes a lot more sense. Region of Ruin and Meeple Station have the same publisher! :)

Hope you enjoy both games, they look great.

So, somehow this was not on my Steam wishlist. I'm glad I misremembered the name for the other game! Purchased! :D

Hello! Somehow the Steam key doesn't show up in the itch.io Downloads section – any steps we need to take to get this one? Thank you!

Huh, strange. Shoot me an email to raymond (dot) doerr (at) rayvolution (dot) net with a copy of your receipt, and I'll shoot a key your way. :)

I've already bought this on steam; can I use that to play it through itch or do I need to pay for it again? I think it would be worth it, but I would rather not pay twice.

If you can show me proof over on Steam you bought it, I'll give you a key over here. ;)

Having said that though, the game has no DRM, you can also just pull the install folder out of Steam and play it whereever you want anyways.

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Hi, how do I go about for getting a key too? Also bought it on steam.

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PS: The game is awesome, well done.