Celebrate the fictitious 35th anniversary of Ruin, a faux point-and-click adventure game that never was

Gosh, tin you judge it? It's already the 35th day of Ruin! It came retired earlier I was born, but adjacent I'm feeling the transition of clip with this one. With specified a momentous juncture upon us, a peculiar 35th day variation of the legendary RPG has been released by its developer Official Electric, divided crossed conscionable 4 floppy disks… except, well, you've decidedly already clocked that Ruin isn't rather real. At slightest not successful the mode it's been presented.

The existent crippled successful question present is Ruin: Chapter 0, an interactive fabrication crippled successful the stylings of thing you mightiness person seen connected the ZX Spectrum, albeit with a batch much flair. And, perhaps, a batch much glitches - a large flashing imagery informing is needed for this one. Playable wrong your browser, it's benignant of hard to picture what you do, oregon adjacent what you're doing, successful Ruin. From what I tin gather, you are a knight, the leader of rune, tasked by the king to retrieve a sword and decision evil forever. But nary substance what, I conscionable support getting my ass kicked by this evil, and each clip I dice it conscionable says "get owned" astatine me! Rude!

And past the crippled becomes thing else… a sci-fi romper crossed antithetic planets, 1 wherever you tally done the woods clicking connected apples astatine conscionable the close clip arsenic they attack you, and wherever you instrumentality pitstops to instrumentality a fume break. Those moments wherever you instrumentality the devil sticks retired of their luxurious boxes requires you to really bash so, dragging it out, flicking your lighter to acceptable it off, pulling it towards your lips. It is specified a strangely progressive crippled successful immoderate ways, and hands-off successful others.

It flicks betwixt your much emblematic RPG benignant of screen, to a first-person point-and-click escapade game, to, rather honestly, an animated movie of sorts. There is an impenetrable prime to it that makes maine privation to interruption it down, to uncover its secrets, to bash a heavy dive connected Wikipedia followed by watching respective "Ruin EXPLAINED" videos connected YouTube. And yet I won't find those, due to the fact that Ruin is not the legendary IP celebrating its 35th day it claims to be. But it does a bully occupation of making you judge successful it.

You tin cheque retired Ruin: Chapter 0 connected itch.io.