Library Of Ruina
BANGER · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $29.99.
- Length
- 113.3h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 560+, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
"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 hands on… The one singular, perfect book.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
November 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $10.19. It has been discounted 34 times in the 6 years tracked here, typically at 55 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 12 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 1 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 95 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Reigns ($2.99, scores 76) and LONESTAR ($5.19, scores 73).
Steam's global achievement data says about 19 percent of players ever finish it. On a 113.3-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 5 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2025 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 1,005 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 2 percent of everything written about it.
Still 1.3K concurrent players, 5 years in.
The drop-off
94% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
1,299 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
After 3 years, i have beaten this game. Words cannot describe the emotions i am feeling right now. When i bought this game i was finishing highschool, and now i am currently in my third year of University. This game is by far the most challenging thing i have done over the course of those 3 years. This game somehow made me burned out more often than 4 semesters worth of University. And somehow, i have beaten Limbus...
the same thing i said about lobotomy corporation this game is painful and makes me want to rip my nails off
30 dollars for pure suffering and hatred, I genuinely hate LOR with my soul, but the story is soooo gooddd... the story is worth the suffering in my opinion, and the gameplay is pretty fun (unless your the one getting beat)
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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Library Of Ruina scores 94/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1256670/library-of-ruinaThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 15, price as of Sep 24.
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