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Regions of Ruin

Regions of Ruin is a 2D pixel side-scrolling RPG with town-building, where you explore, fight and build into an open world that progressively challenges you and your settlement, and threatens the extinction of…

80 5 February 2018

Regions of Ruin is an adventure developed by Gameclaw Studio, released 5 February 2018 on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and Linux.

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What Regions of Ruin is

Regions of Ruin is an adventure game developed by Gameclaw Studio and released in 2018. It was published by JanduSoft. It is available on Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unity.

The premise, in the publisher's words

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How it plays

It is played from a side view perspective. Its themes are action and fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 20 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

Regions of Ruin holds a critic score of 80 out of 100. That places it above 64% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2018 averaged 69, so it scored 11 points above the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for 1 GHZ intel core I5, 512 MB RAM and Nvidia or Amd above 512 MB dedicated. At 1GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 1GB.

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What it launched against

Regions of Ruin launched on 5 February 2018, within three weeks of Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste and Shadow of the Colossus. It reviewed better than 1 of the 4. It arrived 5 years into the PlayStation 4's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Kingdom Come: Deliverance, Monster Hunter: World, Celeste, Shadow of the Colossus.

Cheats and codes

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Quick answers

Regions of Ruin — frequently asked questions

When did Regions of Ruin come out?
Regions of Ruin was released on 5 February 2018 for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Linux, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for Regions of Ruin?
At minimum, Regions of Ruin needs 1 GHZ intel core I5, 512 MB RAM, Nvidia or Amd above 512 MB dedicated graphics, 900 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is Regions of Ruin?
The PC version needs about 0.9 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("900 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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