Mystic Ruins

Stuck on the very first map. Not very user friendly and key bindings are weird.

This game was very hard and fun but it got to a point where you get on a ship and the screen just turns black you could hear game sounds and even get in the items menu. i dont know if i beat it and the credits just never roll or theres more to the game and its broken... i dont even know who to report the bugs to. but it was fun hope it gets fixed soo so i could continue playing.

RPG Maker strikes again! "Mystic Ruins" is one of hundreds of low effort retro-pixel RPG Maker asset/construction kit flips spamming the Steam catalog, made with the RPG Maker video game construction kit... in their own words, "Our easy to use tools are simple enough for a child." Like all RPG Maker "games", this is essentially a bunch of low quality/canned assets from RPG Maker coupled with a cringeworthy high school anime club fan fiction. This RPG Maker asset flip at least spares us of the cringe of being an fan-fiction about the developers imaginary anime girlfriend (Seriously, I am not kidding, most RPG Maker asset flips are about this). Instead it's just a painfully generic RPG about exploring some lost city, which just involves a lot of badly assembled and badly done RPG Maker asset flip combat. The most entertaining part about this is the developer thought the guys on Itch wouldn't recognise this as just an RPG Maker asset flip (there is cringe here after all), and even worse, genuinely thought people would give him money for an RPG Maker game stamped out in an afternoon with the construction kit. What a joke. As with all RPG Maker games, the poor quality engine displays badly in fullscreen and doesn't have full HD support or any graphics tweaking options, making this unacceptable for any dedicated modern PC gamer. The point can be made that the intention of RPG Maker is to make demos and small games to pass around friends, and shouldn't be used for "professional" game development. Like most RPG Maker shovelware and asset flips, the game features extremely low quality copy + pasted 2D retro pixel art, looks awful, and has even worse gameplay. RPG Maker is an absolutely terrible construction kit, and never results in games of any reasonable quality or value to gamers. Itch has one job, and it's not a hard job, but they failed again... to keep amateur stuff in their weird hugbox where everyone claps and says "Good job!!!" at every bit of amateur drivel (which nobody actually plays) and away from gamers. Unfortunately this has leaked out onto Steam platforms and now gamers have to put up with yet another bit of poorly made amateur shovelware. This game is fairly dated at 7 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $1 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. In terms of public reception, this failed. There's over 130 million unique gamers visiting Steam every month. SteamDB showed the game peaked at [b]only 2 concurrent players[/b]... this is a dismal public reception. This was so bad they couldn't even give it away. Given that this free title won't increase your game collector count, is it worth your time to add it to your library? Nope. There's no up front cost here, but I still feel like I got ripped off, and I didn't even spend any money. That's how bad this is.

Haven't played the game very long, but what's there is promising. Doesn't take long to get you right into what the game is - solving puzzles and surviving. I like that. Too many games take way too long to get to the good stuff, and this game seems to get you there right after a very brief intro scene. All in all, you can expect to be playing this game in its fullness within the first 5 minutes of loading it up. A very good sign. Is Mystic Ruins a very good absolutely amazing awesome great game? It doesn't appear to be, but for the price point, I can say with confidence that it's worth picking up. Worst case scenario is that you wasted $2.99 (or $2.54 with its sale going on right now). It's an adventure, and for people who like puzzle solving and mysteries, this is a good game that you will want to play.

This is a hidden gem amongst all the RPG Maker games out there. I'm surprised more people haven't found it, especially since it's free! It is not the classic (and typical) JRPG type of RPG Maker game, but instead focuses mainly on clue type puzzles where you have to figure out what to do with everything you find yourself. To facilitate this, the RPG Maker menu system has been completely overhauled, and the few battles are also in real time. PROS: * Puzzles feel rich, varied, and well thought out. They don't all need to be solved to progress. * Clues, items, and solutions are spread non-linearly across the entire dungeon, with multiple things to be investigated in almost every room. I revisited each room multiple times as I got more items/clues and there were several times I found new things in them I had previously missed. * Every map is visually interesting and distinct. I'm normally terrible with navigation, but I didn't get lost once in this game because each map was so distinct. * There is also a well put together story to be uncovered, and two different endings depending on whether you complete everything or not. CONS: * Battling in real time is clunky, since RPG Maker is not designed for that. Not a huge deal since there's only 2 or 3 compulsory boss battles, and the tough enemies on the map are probably meant to be avoided. * Items that give you additional battle abilities are easy to miss. As a result, my first run in with the first boss felt ridiculous and almost impossible. Afterwards, I discovered I had missed a puzzle earlier that gave me the ability to heal. This skill was a game changer, and probably should have been less optional to find. * Kind of a pro/con, some of the ghosts give pretty blatant hints that cheapened the puzzle solving experience for me. But you can't just ignore all of them because some actually have useful things to say. * As of writing, there is a bug where the ending scene doesn't trigger. The developer seems to have disappeared, but it's easy to fix yourself if you have RPG Maker VX Ace.

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