"May you find your book in this place." An iconic line that we will hear very often in this wonderful piece of art that is called Library of Ruina. It isn't your usual library where you just borrow your books and go away, you fight for it.
An anime style game about strategy and tactics? I'm always in for that. A game that also has a well written story and wonderful people that accompany that? That's even better! But I shouldn't get ahead of myself, because there is one thing that always needs to be asked about a game: Is it a worth buy title or not?

Story:
There will be no spoilers, you won't have to worry about that. But it needs to be said that the story takes place after the events of the prequel of the game Lobotomy Corporation. Of course, you don't need to know everything about that game in order to understand Library of Ruina, only the basic information is enough. Which makes this game's story very good: You don't need knowledge of the previous game to understand what they're saying. (I actually played Library of Ruina before Lobo Corp, so maybe it's just me on that point.) Characters that appear in the story so far are mostly likeable, side characters that have their own story are also characters that can or cannot be liked by the players, which is just a good point for this section.

Gameplay:
This is a game where you need a bit of experience: You fight the people where you may end up winning or losing. If you lose, you try to find a strategy build around card building and find the best build that you think could beat the people. With this said: This game does require you to grind, it also requires you to change up your builds from time to time. The most important thing about the game is also continuing to learn and become better. The game mechanics are taught to you by a manual provided by the game, but you wouldn't get far by just reading that. If you did understand the gameplay of the game you'll realise one thing: It's luck based too, which is a positive and negative thing for me, but it's expected to be luck based. One thing that this game took from its prequel is how cruel it can be, and that is in my opinion well done, especially when both games have way different game genres (Monster Management vs Library Battle Simulation). Overall though, the game mechanic is super fun, the visual novel section where you find more stuff out that involves the characters could be tedious for others, but it was enjoyable for me also.

Sound/Music:
And here we have yet another example of why I love hearing things in games. The game has well done, almost perfect, sounds and music that accompanies this game. Calm, hysteric, serious, sad, nerve wrecking, orchestra, and even our wonderful genre "Is this Doom Music?", it's all here in this game. The game doesn't have just its original songs from this game, it also has remixes of the prequel, which sound really terrifying and stress filling, just like how you'd feel in Lobotomy Corporation when you hear those songs. If anyone is interested, they are all on Youtube and it's worth listening to. The fact that they got Mili songs in here too is just purely amazing.

Graphics:
I don't pay attention to graphics that much, but it's pretty stylish and pretty. The only problem I'd have is frame rate drops in battles on high quality, however that is only because either the stage isn't optimized yet or my PC is bad.

Replay Value:
Currently, there is no way to have several save files, only by backing up your data in your LOR Folder on steam, so the only way to really re-do fights is just battle them with your usual setup or you risk starting all over again with no gear.



In the end, I just have to say this: If Project Moon keeps this up and continues making that great of content, it'll be a wonderful indie company, especially when I consider this is an Early Access game! Definitely recommended for people that like these type of games!

Also, Malcute and Hod are best girls