Rise to Ruins
Village-building strategy with daytime expansion and nightly monster attacks
Raymond Doerr · Published by SixtyGig Games · Released Oct 14, 2019
- Reviews
- Very Positive
- 88% of 7,762
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 16
- peak 24h 22
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 3 years ago
- Sep 19, 2023
What is Rise to Ruins?
Rise to Ruins is a single-player village-building strategy game that mixes resource management and tower defense. You gather supplies, build homes and defenses, and manage villagers to keep a settlement alive against nightly monster attacks. Modes include difficult survival, peaceful village management, and sandbox play.
For you if...
- +you enjoy balancing village growth with tower defense
- +you like learning through difficult survival attempts
- +you want peaceful or sandbox village-building options
Not for you if...
- −you dislike rebuilding after a failed defense
- −you prefer a clear end goal to ongoing survival
What players say
88% of 7,762 reviews are positive
Players praise the mix of village management and tower defense, especially the challenge of keeping a settlement alive. Common complaints include a steep learning curve, costly setbacks from small mistakes, repetitive late-game play, and a lack of further updates.
Screenshots and trailer
Rise to Ruins system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows XP (64 Bit)
- Processor
- Intel i5 or equivalent (Dual Core with Hyper-Threading)
- Graphics
- Intel HD 4400 or equivalent, 1280x720 resolution or higher.
- Memory
- 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- Notes
- Java 8 or Higher Required (Bundled with product)
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 7, 8 or 10 (64 Bit)
- Processor
- Intel i5 or equivalent (Quad Core)
- Graphics
- Most Dedicated GPUs, 1G+ VRAM / OpenGL 1.3+
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 1 GB available space
- Notes
- Java 8 or Higher Required (Bundled with product)
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows, macOS, Linux
- Achievements
- 113
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing, Trading cards
Steam Deck: Playable
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- All functionality is accessible with the default controller configuration
- In-game text is legible on Steam Deck
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Tags
- Tower Defense
- Colony Sim
- City Builder
- Strategy
- Survival
- Pixel Graphics
- Base Building
- God Game
- Simulation
- Indie
- Sandbox
- Singleplayer
- 2D
- Resource Management
- Retro
- Early Access
Recent updates
- Sep 19, 2023 · Update 2d - Even More Minor Fixes and Balance Update - Released!
- Aug 29, 2023 · Update 2c - Minor Fixes and Balance Update - Released!
- Aug 26, 2023 · Update 2 - The Achievement Update - Released!
- Aug 23, 2023 · Build Update 2 Unstable 4 Released
- Jun 11, 2022 · Build Update 2 Unstable 3c Released
1 DLC available.
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