Ruinarch (2021) - Civilization Destroying Occult God Sim

what's up guys and gals and welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we're gonna be checking back in on ruin arc ruin arc is kind of like a reverse rim world so the best way i know how to describe the game is that you're building a base you're an evil overlord you're trying to resurrect yourself so that you can destroy the planet but there's like a kink in the plan there's a rimworld style colony that's on your map and it's full of like druids and paladins and farmers and guys like that they're going to be going about their daily business and you need their soul energy and the energy of their misery in order to resurrect yourself but you need to do it in like a delicate way because if they figure out that you're trying to mess with them and destroy their colony they're going to come after you swoop down on your castle and annihilate you and so really this is kind of a weird game and i don't know if like in the end it's all together gonna be like perfect or flawless or put together in such a way that it flows but it is kind of an interesting game of intrigue really your goal is to infect as many people with as many negative traits as possible and hope that those negative traits come to fruition via people falling out of friendships murdering each other trying to steal from each other basically you're creating chaos and if the colony falls in the process that's absolutely fantastic in the meantime they're not going to go quietly they're going to continue recruiting new immigrants and they're going to build new buildings and they're going to expand across the map and eventually they are going to find you so anyways that's where we are with rowan ark the game came out about a year ago i had a chance to play it back then i did like the idea it was primitive at the time they've released nine or eight updates since then over the course of the last year adding more content and things to do to the game and so anyways we're going to dive on and take a look at it today if after watching this you wanted to get it for yourself you could do that down below in the description you'll also find a link to all of my various social media and live streams discord twitter twitch all that fun stuff just in case you wanted to hang out a little bit further so anyways let's go with a medium map right here we'll go up against the kingdom of mermaid that sounds like fun oh they get two villages interesting on a medium map huh well that should be kind of a fun treat let's try that on out and see how it goes uh we're going to invade mermaid i guess so off we go i believe we're going to pick what type of demon we want to be very very shortly as well there's everything from like greed demons to necromancers to stuff like that you can try to convert and start cults by kidnapping people and torturing them until they turn to your dark ways alright so here we are the first thing that we have to do is we have to place our portal ideally it will be somewhere where we won't get attacked by wildlife and also where we'll have like a little bit of a gap what are these guys doing over here oh it's a graveyard gotcha so those are dead people inside the graveyard right there okay well the village is like right here where's the second village at there's gotta be a set oh there it is right there okay so they've got kind of a thin little strip running over here gotcha but that's good because it leaves us a big chunk of kind of this rightward area of the map all to ourselves so what i'll do is i'm going to put my guys right here we'll build our portal so our portal is down we've got to configure our loadout now this is where we get to decide on our archetype and who we want to be you can be the puppet master so the puppet master very much focuses on manipulating people's emotions and people's traits into getting them to turn on each other really his ultimate goal is you know how in rim world your people will develop rivalries and they keep getting in social fights with like the same person that's this guy's specialty he he's all about kind of whispering in people's ear grima worm tongue style and being like he doesn't believe in you you know like that kind of stuff until eventually people's hearts turn cold and they turn on one another he's got a snare trap right here he's got afflictions so he can make people a kleptomaniac that can actually put like a whole lot of chaos into a village because people will get caught stealing they'll get thrown in jail eventually if they commit enough crimes they get executed that kind of stuff uh we got a lust demon right there that one's interesting because with the less demon you can have the less demon take the form of somebody's wife or somebody's lover and they'll think it's them they'll sleep with them and then the less demon basically rats them out to like their their normal lover and it can introduce all kinds of chaos there we've got the lich the lich is all about evil stuff so you start out with narcolepsy you start out with what looks like a freezing trap we get the demon of envy we get a crypt and a prison so this guy's all about summoning skeletons and a little bit of direct action and then we have the ravager uh the ravager is all about direct confrontation like you just you send people in on raids to attack and murder you are the antagonist in these heroes stories basically and you are very real you are very there and you are very apparent like but he gets lots of retaliations so every time you hit the village you're gonna raise your retaliation meter and once it fills up they send a raid out against you which can be really really bad uh it can actually end poorly i'm familiar with the lich so i think that's who i'm gonna go with for right now all right and so we've got a couple of things on the ui we've got our mana this is for casting spells we've got our chaos energy chaos energy is for upgrading buildings and for doing special actions and then spirit energy is what we use to upgrade our portal now how do you get all this stuff well in the case of mana that just regenerates all by its lonesome so you don't need to worry about it in the case of chaos energy and spirit energy you're going to need to inflict flaws on people and every single time one of those flaws triggers you're going to get chaos energy because like technically you're winning and so anyways we'll probably mess with this village right here as much as possible it does look like we have a cave right here i don't know what we could spawn inside of it but we can do a monster spawner and it looks like that's going to give me earthen wisps so if they try to come in here to mine or get any sort of resources we now have monsters inside of this cave that are actively going to try and run them off over time this monster spawner will produce more monsters we'll see if this actually turns out to be a good plan or if it's going to work out for us sometimes i mean i feel like the monster spawners in my experience are rarely more than just kind of like an annoyance it'll occasionally scare these guys off so they can't gather resources maybe that means that they'll build a house a little bit slower which means that like a new immigrant will get more spiteful against the people that run the town uh actually they're killing my wisps right now so apparently this guy ran back and reported and these guys are stoked because they've won a combat there we go we'll get a little bit of damage off i don't think we got any chaos orbs out of it though so that's a little bit of a bummer and then i think they can also harvest the dead bodies for like magical research or something but i don't know the specifics of it i can freezing trap people right there so put a freezing trap down somebody will walk across that they will get frozen unfortunately it was the chicken so that's cool that's cool that's cool i was hoping to be a person because then we get a bunch of chaos orbs let's build some buildings i think it's a really good idea for us to build a crypt that way we can defend our area you can right click anywhere on the map and it will spread it will spread your creep or like your little slimy ground right here so that you have more area of influence i don't really do it but if you have area of influence you can build walls and stuff on it to defend yourself the demonic portal is the number one thing that we need to defend above all i'll also put in a prison right there so that we can imprison the good guys if we ever see an opportunity to snatch one of them in the meantime we have an envy demon over here and we can spawn some skeletons i think it's a really good idea to spawn some skeletons just to act as kind of our home vanguard and protect us just in case we don't have anything in our retaliation meter right now so we don't have to worry about them coming and hitting us but like every now and again they get a b in their bonnet and they decide to get all like miffed and they'll come out with a raid and try to attack us there's a rabbit hole over there okay what we need to do is we need to start putting some chaos in this area so we're going to do is we're going to afflict her with narcolepsy now we've got four minutes until we can inflict with narcolepsy again but every time she blacks out and falls asleep we're going to get chaos orbs from harvesting her nightmares and so we slowly want to get everybody in town with narcolepsy if we can pull it off that way we've got like a good ground foundation for generating resources for upgrading our base and getting new monsters and getting new buildings because as of right now there's not a whole lot we can do until we upgrade our demonic portal we kind of just have to like mess with people because we're in like a very weakened state hey she's already blacked out twice nice so that gave us a little bit of spirit energy not much but something with wallace can i make you narcoleptic yet no we've got like another four minutes until that's possible well then i suppose i'll put another freezing trap like right here but i'm gonna wait to do it until this guy is verified on his way back so that a chicken doesn't trigger it again yeah exactly see if i had placed it that chicken would have triggered it these chickens hanging out in a cave dude these cave chickens these spelunking poyos over here are driving me nuts all right so there's the freezing trap marvin has been frozen we harvest his misery there we go uh as long as we don't have any monsters seen or anything else like that you don't have to worry about retaliation going up so the only time retaliation goes up is if like the enemy becomes aware of you basically as of right now they might think that that's just a trap that they never uncovered in the dungeon they'll think that the narcolepsy is just like an affliction that's happening on its own they don't know no but for right now this man has been frozen for a hot minute if he can freeze somebody at the right time and then spawn monsters too they'll just beat him to death and that's always a good situation we got some chaos orbs right there from our spawner if you wanted to see what everything does you can look at its info panel right here and it'll actually tell you specifically what the building does i do think that's really really good for clarity of play for the player uh so this spawns earthworks tomorrow at 806 am and then it generates two chaos orbs on day two at 806 am so that's good resources resources resources i'm gonna let this kind of hang out for a minute until we have enough chaos to go ahead and upgrade our base because we can't really do a whole lot right now anyways the beginning of the game is a little bit slow like that but we'll wait it on out and we'll see what happens so after a little bit i've afflicted a few more people with narcolepsy and then over here the chickens are being attacked by wolves i guess oh look there's a fight going on right there too nice can i afflict her with narcolepsy while she's hurt blessed villagers are protected from your powers oh they have a blessed person that's not good last time i played there was no blessed people in the entire camp so i could basically run amok doing whatever i wanted at this point you ever imagine there was a guy named a muck like back in the like babylonian days and he ran so fast that for like 4 000 years we've just been like yeah he runs amok i don't know uh looks like there's a little bit of fighting going on in here the earth and wisps have spawned but they're not really relentlessly targeting anybody i could probably get somebody with a frost trap right here just for the extra chaos point oh never mind chicken go ahead and step on it and we froze another chicken what is this guy doing he's going to assault the earthen wisp okay can i afflict him with anything i've got 20 something seconds until we can do narcolepsy again if we could get him to fall asleep in combat that'd be really really good oh he's already narcoleptic very nice okay well that helps out with marvin your cousin marvin there we go we'll go ahead and throw that in right there and he is now narcoleptic as well hopefully he gets chewed on by a chicken that would be the absolute best way for this to go but you know sometimes life is unpredictable like that we have enough points that we can upgrade our spawning pool now so i think that's a really really good idea it takes ten to get to level two so we're gonna go ahead and do that's gonna give us some new spells uh we can put poison on an object so we can like poison the well we can make somebody a vampire if anybody witnesses them doing vampiric stuff they'll report it to the afore the authorities and they'll try to slay the vampire or arrest the vampire or cure the vampire we've got feeble spirit basically this will drain energy from a villager and when they pass out from exhaustion you get chaos orbs we can get a kennel the kennel allows us to capture monsters so like orcs spiders all that kind of stuff and then it adds them to our spawn list so that we can add them just like we added skeletons earlier and then we've got a spire that allows us to upgrade our magic powers so we'll go ahead and get the upgrade going it's gonna take a little while doesn't happen like at the drop of a hat hey free chaos orbs very nice i think the next upgrade is 30 too so we should be able to get a new one pretty soon and just go straight up to level three do i get the buildings right this second no i gotta wait for the upgrade to be done okay let's wait for the upgrade okay so our level two portal is ready to rock the downside here is there is no like graphical upgrade i wish that there was but there just isn't but at level two we can now have five skeletons which is pretty cool and we can build some new buildings so i think the spire is a really good idea and then i also think a kennel is probably a rad idea too as soon as we get a little bit more energy there we go so we've got the kennel and we've got the spire all nice and set up the other thing that we need to do is we need to put in a few more skeletons so there we go we've got a few more guards for our base my advice would be that we kidnap a ghoul maybe and we add them to our dungeon okay so now that we've got all our fun stuff set up i think it's a good idea for us to kidnap a ghoul i don't know how strong ghouls are but i like the idea of having ghouls as a lich we can take a look at him we can find out 900 hp looks like he's got 35 strength how does he compare to our skeletons before i add him to the squad so it looks like 650. actually he's quite a bit weaker actually it looks like than a skeleton yeah he's weaker than a skeleton but he's got a lot more hp so i guess he makes an okay oh he's a snatcher okay so he's really really good at like knocking people out gotcha all right fair enough uh we can right click on this guy and we can say to snatch him but we need a kennel first the skeleton is in the kennel why is the skeleton in the kennel maybe because i placed it on top of him that's probably what it was all right so now we can snatch this guy over here where is he at there he is all right so we've got him right there we can set up a team to go and snatch him we'll send our envy demon we'll send a skeleton for a hundred more points we can add another summon to the team but unfortunately doesn't look like it wants to let me click it curious all right well we'll deploy them like over here to go get that guy yeah summon him and hopefully we can go get this ghoul and bring him back and start to breed him there you go so we have captured the ghoul officially unfortunately the ghoul appears to be bleeding i think we put some kind of bleed or something on them uh don't worry about collecting orbs you collect them automatically if you're not directly there to like mouse over them and grab them i know that's gonna be a question that a lot of people have like okay so i have to stare at the city the whole time to get my orbs no you get the orbs either way it's all good uh why is he always poisoned gotcha hopefully the poison goes away soon yeah there it is so it's it's gone away so we have a couple of options here we can either let him go or we can drain his spirit that will slowly make his hp down but it generates chaos points for us very very useful stuff or we can leave them in there and it just adds them to our spawn list we'll go ahead and upgrade our tower to level three we de facto win the game when we get our portal up to level eight however the enemy is going to become aware of us as the large rumbling purple pink portal off in the distance becomes more and more apparent they are going to become aware of that so now i can summon ghouls but my monster cap is full so we've got to wait a minute but the ghoul is a really good people snatcher we might be able to steal somebody and put them inside of our jail that would be ideal it's what i would prefer to do i'm going to spend some chaos points here to convert some of this over to my territory there we go you can do that by shift right clicking if there's stuff in the way if it's an empty tile you can just right click but if there's things in the way you gotta shift right click i'd like to make a wall around here somewhere but like it's tough i would like them to add a rubber band box option for corrupting areas with like a synopsis in the corner of how much it's going to cost you in order to do that i do think that this game does have a lot of quality of life things that i think could be implemented a little bit better with some of the nested menus and the right-click menus and stuff like that um i'm i'm more of a fan of kind of like contextual uis and so like for example when you don't have anything selected all your powers would be down here on the bottom and you just click on the power then click on the person and like all of your cooldowns would be in one place like on a hot bar almost that's how i would have arranged it uh the nested menus they mean that it takes you a lot more clicks to do the exact same amount of stuff or at the bare minimum you spend a lot of time running around searching for people what's going on over here i was gonna try and freezing trap them while they were fighting the wolf but it didn't go that way they didn't take the path that i expected them to take and now they're going to butcher the wolf and eat it oh my spawner is gone dude oh no okay i got to put another spawner in here we definitely need another spawner just to kind of keep them running around we can also place a necronomicon now what the necronomicon does is if like an adventurer sees the necronomicon they have to make a roll to see if they're tempted to pick it up as treasure and if they do pick it up they become a necromancer the book starts to convert them basically to the dark side and then they'll randomly start doing things like summoning rituals and you know generally things that are not appreciated in in general society um they'll eventually become like a criminal so on and so forth they'll be targeted heavily by law enforcement and they may do your job for you by killing the guy which really is kind of the nuance of this game huh why did they come out this way oh that's not good that's not good at all yeah i can't have them just wandering around willy-nilly near my base that's bad i don't want that that's a mistake okay so the mana pit's gonna make us get more mana and then the primordial pool is basically an upgrade node so that we can upgrade our monsters and make them stronger using our mana and chaos energy uh basically allows us to level up our critters so that they're better at their jobs i would like to snatch somebody tonight do they have anybody that's like isolated who's using that bed right there oh this guy's got oh we can snatch this dude right here there we go all right they snatched him so they're gonna bring him back hopefully they get here before morning without being seen these guys tend to get up at like four or five in the morning so like we need to be out of town by the time that happens uh we have no retaliation right now so that's really really good uh we need to put in let's see here i don't want to poison the tree but i would like to put in some walls here just to make the prison a little bit harder to access [Music] there we go so this guy's in jail now so there's a couple of things we can do with this guy we can torture him torturing him basically guarantees that he's gonna get a negative perk that the village is gonna have to deal with from now on it could be anything from kleptomania it could be he might become psychotic and like murder people randomly you never quite know what he's gonna get he's a marauder but the other interesting option is that we could try to brainwash him and so we may give that a go wallace is in the prison we can't torture him we can't brainwash him is there a reason why there we go let's see if we can brainwash him well we failed at brainwashing so that's a bit of a bummer but we're gonna keep on trying oh and here they come to rescue their boy here they come oh they got through them walls quick didn't they they got through them walls real quick all right well give me some demons and stuff up in here to fight with these guys and cause all kinds of pain and destruction we've got a few more skeletons ready to rock well we definitely oh we won we killed them all hell yeah dude we just wiped out half the village in one go i thought we lost all right we killed them all uh the downside is did we let's see here marnell is dead maggie where is she oh dude she's over there oh no dude are they all gonna oh they're all gonna report me so our retaliation meter's gonna go up not great not great would prefer for that not to be a thing but unfortunately it is a thing but we did accidentally inadvertently kill half the village when they tried to spring their friend out of prison so that's not too bad oh that's why okay so they're coming over here let's see if we can maybe stop them from doing that so i'm gonna put a necronomicon right there and i'm gonna put a freeze trap right there to sort of like maybe convince them oh that person picked up the necronomicons so that's good that means that this person right here is gonna become a necromancer uh on every single person just like in rimworld they have like a bunch of different tabs and you can reveal information about them uh by going through here and paying points so like now i can see who their enemies are i can see who they don't like i can see what their mood is at the moment and if they're starving or not so that if i have like a curse of starvation i could capitalize on that make her pass out and lose a whole bunch of strength uh i would also suggest yeah we get like an exhaustion demon over there that'll help out too i don't have really anything else that i can throw around although in an ideal world we would prefer wow we got a bunch of suffering out of that let's upgrade this again so we get some more powers dude because the terrifying howl would have kept them away from my base no problem huh there's a mimic why was there a mimic in my base apparently they don't care about my base the second time around they're looking whatever fair enough oh these guys are trying to chase them right now don't do that that's a mistake you're gonna regret that decision yeah definitely don't follow them back to town i would like a little bit more control over being able to tell people like hey don't do that since i am an all-powerful necromancer like these guys are about to go into their and effectively throw their lives away which i think is not ideal i would prefer that they not do that did i poison that guy's bed interesting oh they murdered him nice dude hell yeah i mean i'll take it they they did it with the perfect all right apparently my minions know better than i do they went in and just conducted a surgical strike against maggie i don't know what maggie did apparently they've got new immigrants over here so it doesn't matter that we just murdered half the village because the rest of them are back feels bad i can't poison the corn crops which i think would be a really smart idea i'd like to watch them and figure out exactly what it is they're up to is this person like a klepto it looked like they were gonna go steal reveal his info real fast i'm in an unpleasant environment what did he just do he's nocturnal okay that actually isn't so bad uh let's go ahead and afflict a few more people with random curses uh so for example you work at the farm so you should be a glutton this guy's already got narcolepsy i don't want to make a narcoleptic vampire that'd be kind of a pain in the butt uh we have casey over here though we can inflict casey with vampirism and so there it is casey is now a vampire i think shouldn't casey be a vampire it should say vampirism right there did it work she resisted the power of the ruin arc oh well that's inconvenient dude how you just gonna like how are you gonna resist my man man apparently that person didn't get poisoned but we did get a little bit of chaos energy right there from the poisoning good chickens out cold a little bit more energy right there because i think somebody blacked out hey there we go give us a little bit more yup yup yup yup this place is gonna be the harvesting zone for my chaos energy uh we need to get our defenses back up we lost a lot of our monsters and so like maybe just a skeleton or two yeah another another groovy ghoulie right there to help me like steal people we've still got a ghoul inside the kennel i don't know if it allowed me to yeah i don't have enough charges for that stuff however what's my next upgrade on the total my next oh it's in the process of upgrading right now gotcha i was gonna say i should be working on something right now but sometimes i forget we'll just harvest a bit more energy from this area [Music] sleep sleep sleep and slumber okay okay okay this guy's coming back so we need to do right here is we put in a freezing trap right no chickens oh my god we gotta get rid of these chickens dude it's like we've got we've got like bodyguard special forces secret service chickens diving in the way of all of my plans that's like all that i want to do is freeze a guy and they're not letting me do it that's all i want to do i'm going to put a necronomicon right there because so many people walk over the top of that tile that i feel like eventually somebody will pick that up monster spawners already incited there is there a nearby monster spawner on this side that will dictate can i get one in right there oh i can't get one in right there okay i was gonna say if i could get like just a passive monster spawn over on this side it would be great but we'll put narcolepsy on you [Music] we'll put [Music] oh everybody's blessed over here dude we'll put gluttony on you so that you eat a lot more food maybe stir up a little bit of spite and people being like man i hate that guy lester he ate my he that man ate my wheaties i went all the way to town i got myself some sweet ass wheaties he done ate them all man some things is just too far man all right uh we need a few more critters around here another ghoul there we go i just want to have like a nice strong army we won this fight like really really well and handily and so like i'm kind of in the mood to press my advantage i can upgrade my powers over here uh your powers don't just get more efficient uh when you upgrade your powers like narcolepsy and vampirism it actually changes mechanics around so like for example with the vampires right here you're giving your vampires extra powers and like you're making it so they can actually evolve and now i'm making it so that they can create a vampire coven at this point and like they'll start to convert other people into vampires and just increase the chaos in the area and also the yields on stuff that you get uh with some of these things you can go raise the dead can be used on a villager's corpse oh nice dude i didn't even realize i had that power seriously where's that power at it says raise the dick can i raise these guys right here oh i can but it looks like my unit cap's full well shoot i kind of wish i oh i'll raise you as a skeleton yeah absolutely you can be my skeleton you can be my skeleton you can be my undead pal man we got them all we got like every single one of them we went like haywire over here yep we went like super haywire are you guys just marching into town right now to attack your previous allies like don't get me wrong i like it oh my god he turned around it this is my life this is my life ice blast that guy terrifying howl that guy so they all run away unfortunately that skeleton just not gonna make it although he is weirdly healing so i guess they just knocked him out and left him there fair enough not even particularly mad about it [Music] maybe he'll wake up some point and be useful again i don't know they just gave him a kick they left him concussed normally the undead don't get mercy like that oh somebody picked up the necronomicon that's good who picked up the necronomicon [Music] doesn't say on my log but somebody picked up the necronomicon that i left right there interesting i wonder who has it we should see them start to go out and do rituals and stuff in that case which will inject a little bit of terror i do like so one thing i do like about the game is it spaced out a little bit better now the last time i played the game it was super easy to win all you had to do was abduct their healer and then you poison it or disease everybody in town and then there was nobody to like heal the diseases off them they all eventually die of the ronies and so like that was like you could basically break neck speed run the game really really easily it seems like they've added a lot more protections against that kind of like behavior um to where the game flows slower now and you've actually got to like plan your moves and look for opportunities which i think is a really really good idea as far as the ui goes i think that's where the game could be fiddled with the most uh i do think there's lots and lots of quality of life things they could do with the ui as the game develops and make it look a little bit nicer i do think that your portal every time you upgrade it should get a new graphic honestly i think that every building should get kind of an upgraded graphic every time you upgrade the portal to sort of represent you becoming more powerful i'd like to see a little bit more animation and whatnot too to the game it's very very static as of right now like i'd like to see undulations and tendrils that creep out from the edge of your area of influence i'd like to see rubber band boxes that allow you to expand that a little bit easier too without having to click each individual tile which like takes forever and so you know like i like the idea of the game being kind of the evil overlord where you mess with the rimworld colony and try to bring it to ruin but that being said lots of quality of life and ui stuff that i think could be done a little bit better here my name is splattercat i sift through the pile to find what's worthwhile in the world of indie games every single day so you don't have to today up on the chopping block we had ruin arc tomorrow we will more than likely have something else this game is currently in early access so you can check it out down below it is likely to change as time goes along i'll see y'all later thank you for hanging on out and that's pretty much all i got for you bye everybody you

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Length: 32min 32sec (1952 seconds)

Published: Tue Aug 31 2021