Library of Ruina (2021) — Release Date, Cheats, Price & Requirements

Library of Ruina

"May you find your book in this place." Combat between the guests and the librarians breaks out as if it were on a stage. Defeated guests turn into books, and the Library grows onward. And eventually, get your…

10 August 2021 ESRB M

What Library of Ruina is

Library of Ruina is an adventure game developed by Project Moon and released in 2021. It was published by Arc System Works. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity. It carries an ESRB M age rating.

The premise, in the publisher's words

Roland, a low-grade Fixer from a location known only as the City, one day finds himself transported into the foyer of the titular Library, a mysterious location filled with books on any subject one could think of. He soon meets the Head Librarian Angela, and after a brief scuffle, she decides to spare him and recruits him to be her guide on the outside world. Angela has a strange way of going about it though, as she sends out calling cards called Invitations to ask people to come to the Library and gives them a choice in whether they accept or decline. If the guests accept, they must survive mortal combat against the Librarians that guard the building; if they win, they can take any book…

Description from the publisher · source

How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and horror. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.

What it launched against

Library of Ruina launched on 10 August 2021, within three weeks of Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes and The Forgotten City. It arrived 8 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Psychonauts 2, Ghost of Tsushima: Director's Cut, Twelve Minutes, The Forgotten City.

Official trailer