Into the Restless Ruins

Into the Restless Ruins effortlessly combines dungeon building and dungeon crawling into a Roguelike package that I couldn't put down.

Into The Restless Ruins has taken us totally by surprise. This is a belting addition to the Switch's lineup of roguelikes that manages to make itself fresh and unique in a category full of bland copycats. The melding of deckbuilding, combat, memory challenges, and construction of dungeons makes for a game that draws you right in every time, robbing you of hours as you work your way through its delightful catacombs. A little more narrative oomph may have taken it even further, but you're still looking at a bit of a must-play here.

So you’re maidenless? That’s okay, champ. Listen to this. A Scottish legend tells of a Harvest Maiden who can satisfy desires… desires that can’t be met by simple earthly means. You have lofty desires, right? Well, what a terrible time to have them because, as luck would have it, your local Harvest Maiden is out of commission. She’s been corrupted, her power fractured by wardens and beasts roaming her crumbling ruins. You’d need to make your way through the ruins to harvest warden...

Today’s game is a deck built dungeon crawl. That’s right, you get to build your own dungeon. The cards limit what you can build each day, so build wisely. T

Blue Prince meets Vampire Survivors: that's the best way to describe Into The Restless Ruins, a roguelike deckbuilding game with a twist. You place cards to build your dungeon, then explore it to gain experience. It's perhaps not as challenging as it could be, but it's a great deal of fun nonetheless.

Roguelike dungeon crawlers and deck builders are prolific these days, but many of them manage to stand out in one way or another despite sharing some similar elements. Into the Restless Ruins does just that by splicing the worlds of dungeon-delving and card-collecting together, the result being a unique, clever game where you literally tread your own path.