Been trying to find a way to enjoy this game, but it just feels remarkably tedious no matter what I do. The trash mechanic being added is really annoying due to the insane amount of trash that builds up. THere's way to much random ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ that happens which completely derails you for multiple days sometimes.

This game was awesome back when I originally played this but it just lacked a reason to play beyond a couple years. Now, it's just tedious trying to deal with corruption and all the other issues at the same time. This feels like how Rise of Industry was a solid game but needed some tweaks. Instead of that, they added 2130 which simply made the game more tedious and still lacking the main features people had been asking for.

I wanna like it and I've kept trying to push through the tedium, but I might be at the end of my desire to keep playing.

Also, the way achievements work is just strange. Almost all of the achievements are things you can do right off the bat, yet you have to unlock achievements like they're talent points for whatever reason, in order to be able to even start working towards the next achievement. It also doesn't take long for the performance to get bogged down quick. I've got a pretty old computer, but for such a simplistic game it seems nuts just how quickly it becomes frustratingly slow.

I can't really recommend this game. It has some issues that probably won't ever get fixed.
The bad:
- Abandonment: The game is likely abandoned at this point. According to Steamdb, it had only three updates in the past three years: two bug fixes and the achievement update.
- Lack of Campaign and Poor Progression: The lack of a campaign and the fact that every building is unlocked from the start take away from the enjoyment of learning about the world and discovering new things. The only progression comes in the form of chests that you unlock with points earned during gameplay. These chests provide minor bonuses, such as one extra building slot, but most of them are percentage increases to stats. And they are all capped so you cannon end up having 1000 extra building slots.
- Unintuitive UI: The UI is not very user-friendly. It has large elements on all four sides of the screen, which are fixed in size and only scalable to a limited extent. On my 22-inch 1080p monitor, the text is too small. Scaling the UI makes the text bigger, but it also hides more of the screen. The game itself warns that changing the scale may cause visual issues, which is not a good sign. I've calculated that about ~24% of the screen is occupied by the UI at 1x scale.
- Missing Game Features:
* If you accidentally start deleting a building, there is no way to stop it. Since dismantling isn't instant and villagers have to perform it, there should be an option to cancel the process.
* You cannot rotate buildings. This is problematic as it limits the way you can design your town. Only rectangular buildings need both vertical and horizontal sprites; square ones can remain as they are. I read on some posts that the artist would have to make new sprites for each build. I can understand that this would be time-consuming but it really messes with the game
- Lack of Clarity: The game is generally not very clear. The in-game tutorial only covers the basics. I often had to search online for answers, which led me to old posts, some as old as five years, where the developers provided responses. However, these answers might be outdated now.
- No Endgame: There is no endgame content. You just play a series of skirmish battles with the same buildings, fighting the same enemies on different maps. The goal of each map is to survive for one year. The difficulty settings seem to only increase the enemies' aggression.

The good:
- I like the music.
- The pixel art and particle effects are very nice.

Years on and it's still awful. Goodness knows I've tried putting up with it, but the villagers are dumber than the rocks they won't harvest no matter how hard you throw them at a cliff. I watched them complain about housing while I had six homes waiting to be built, missing logs, while I had over 150 units of the stuff stockpiled and gathering dust, with my builders just wandering around aimlessly.

For ten days.

Sometimes three farms produces enough food for twenty villagers, other times four doesn't produce enough for ten.

Villagers run away at the first sign of enemies, no matter how heavily armed and armored they are, which isn't the most helpful thing ever when they get outnumbered by slimes on day 2.

The AI, such as it is, seems to have two different settings: pretend to work, and gleefully do jack.

"Prepare to lose often!" works with games like Dwarf Fortress, because in DF the game is legitimately difficult. In Rise to Ruin, losing happens because nobody does any freaking work, and slapping a "game hurd tho!" label on it doesn't excuse crap programming.

Give it a chance if you like, but be ready to spend a lot of time waiting for your dozen builders to decide they feel like repairing the damage done to that house a week ago, or boggle as to why your maintenance and repair guy is delivering iron ingots to the toolmaker instead of fixing the sixteen forty damaged buildings you built the damn Maintenance post specifically to get someone to fix the freaking things.

In practice, the game is utterly bloated. You need three or four buildings just to make one operational (magic turret? need an energy collector, which needs to be powered from another building, which needs...), and the workers in those buildings do whatever they feel like, which is usually 'nothing whatsoever'. Got three people working in the lumber mill making wooden boards? Well, that one guy there is bringing logs from the lumber shack to the village center while you've got four buildings waiting for boards. So fun! Not like you need those boards to repel the endless army of weak monsters that will utterly destroy everything in sight while everybody runs away, so you can avoid losing on day 2! LOSING IS FUN, DO YOU GET IT YET?

It could be an amazing game with some actual effort put in, but a Decision(tm) was made a long time ago, when the game changed its name, and it has seemingly been downhill from there. The coding is like the workers themselves: it does whatever it feels like doing, which is usually nothing. I promise this is true: exiting the game and restarting it once caused all the workers to suddenly realise that they had jobs to do, and that game almost went well... for a few minutes. Restarting hasn't worked since; I think the code found the 'Make things go' exploit and patched it out.

I had some fun playing the game but the fun was drained by the problems I had with it. I would describe the feeling more as "draining patience awaiting for the fun to continue".

The game is very difficult even on 1 difficulty lower than recommended.
Sometimes for some inexplicable reason when I entered a level and built farms, the farmers did nothing on the farms(like nothing was planted). I suspect this game has a mechanic where if you don't have carrots to plant you can't plant them(at least from what I observed).
If you pause the game the screen is covered by a dark pause screen so you can't pause and evaluate the situation(you can but you can't look at it).
Things take way too long to get done(especially building better roads), I played at max speed almost all the time.
Game mechanics and design aside, the thing that infuriated me most was the inability to type in a number for production limits or trade limits. If I wanted 50 planks to be in stock always, I would have to click fifty times on the + icon. Is it really so difficult to have an input box where I can type a number?

okay game, pretty fun for a little bit.
Also just TWO updates in FIVE years, no communication at all, dev has abandoned the game once already and personally i will never touch another thing made by this person ever again, if i could i'd probably refund the game

I can't really recommend this game. Even on Traditional (the "more relaxed" aka easiest mode with combat) the difficulty is punishing and cleansing a map is tedious with a single optimal strategy. Which is too bad because it has some nice mechanics and systems.

Basically the way to win is to rush a chain of lights over to where the corruption spawns and encircle it with lights within the first 2-3 game days. Then contain spawns with a couple of bullet towers while you rush town growth to supporting a bunch of crystal golems. Once that's ready slowly light creep into the corruption area until it's all gone.

Enemy strength increases exponentially over time and with corruption size, so containing it ASAP is basically the only way to win. Towers are useless beyond the first few in-game weeks and human military is too hard to replace so there's no real other options on offense either.

This is really too bad because there are fun systems of towers and walls and production and building and magic. Unfortunately none of them matter because you can't fool around if you don't want to eventually be overwhelmed by the corruption's power growth.

I can't imagine peaceful mode is much fun since over half the buildings and systems are useless if there's no combat. Custom difficulty lets you tweak variables that can slow the enemy growth but that only gives you more time to execute the one viable strategy. Sadly there doesn't seem to be a way to make the game more flexible.

always crashes

Big no. Just not worth your time to learn.

The achievement structure in this game is a mess. You have to unlock the achievements via branching paths, like a skill tree. Also, the random chance for the Blood Moon event (damaging meteors rain down all over the map and spawn blood slimes that attack the nearest building) and the Eclipse event (corruption enemies attack your base during the day, just like they do at night) seem glitched as I got 7 blood moons (the harder of the two) before I ever got my first eclipse. And I had to save scum to even get that eclipse to spawn in the first place! After roughly 80 hours of gameplay!

Buy this game for $7.50 or less and get your 5-20 hours of fun out of it then dip. This game is not worth getting 100% on. I'm just stupidly stubborn.

I got hit with back-to-back RNG (Blood Moon/Meteor Shower) which is fine, except that in the aftermath, I couldn't recover from the damage. This is only due to the fact that my villagers simply stopped working and following commands. My farmers stopped watering crops despite having tons of water. My builders also wouldn't stop building something even though I had set the building to lowest priority. My villagers were starving to death and refusing to build the farm which I had set to TOP priority, they chose to build a lumber camp instead.

It's a great concept and I was doing fine with the regular waves and the scaling, but two RNG events, coupled with the villagers who don't work or listen killed all interest I had in playing.