- Devolver Digital 2026 Publisher Sale | Wishlist RUINER 2 Now! - 16 June 2026
Puppy, it's time to wake up. The Devolver Digital 2026 Publisher Sale is officially live, Snag all the games you've been eyeing now at new discounts whether your wallet is ready or not!Devolver's Steam pageWhile you browse the sale, we have an even bigger reveal for you: the next chapter of our favorite cult-classic cyberpunk shooter, RUINER, is officially in development!WISHLIST RUINER 2 ON NOW! RUINER 2 Steam pageConnect with the team for regular developer updates, concept breakdowns, and community events on the Official RUINER 2 Discord.
- RUINER 2 Closed Pre-Alpha Playtest Wrap-Up - 8 May 2026
Join Discord to be the first to sign up for future playtests. RUINER 2 Discord The dust has settled on our very first Closed Pre-Alpha Playtest, and we want to send a massive thank you to everyone who signed up, shared their feedback, and showed interest in jumping into the world of RUINER 2 so early in the journey, we read every single comment. If you didn’t get an invite this time, don’t be discouraged. Your enthusiasm hasn’t gone unnoticed, we’re already planning more playtests toward the end of June and hope to be able to invite even more players this time around. The main goal of our recent playtest was to test core mechanics and systems. We wanted to see how the Shell System, combat, and itemization hold up when played by our community for the first time. We're taking all that feedback onboard as we continue the development of the RUNIER 2. Below, you’ll find our detailed thoughts…
- RUINER 2 Gameplay Trailer - 21 April 2026
New Gameplay Trailer for RUINER 2Reikon Games reveals a deeper look at RUINER 2 with the first official gameplay trailer. The sequel transforms the franchise from a top-down shooter into a Cyberpunk Action RPG set in Rengkok, a megacity where corporate power and street violence are the only constants. Rengkok has one rule: death must be earned.DISCOVER THE RUINER UNIVERSE RUINER 2 expands the scale and lore of the original game. This experience is designed for both lone wolves and teams, as the game supports solo play and co-op for up to 3 players. Whether fighting through the neon-soaked streets of Rengkok or its industrial depths, the challenge scales to meet the power of your Roster.THE SHELL SYSTEM The Shell System is the heart of RUINER 2’s gameplay evolution. Players collect combat bodies called "Shells" to add to their Shell Roster and swap between them instantly mid-fight. Each…
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- Almost 10 years on from the first one, Ruiner is getting a sequel, and this time with co-op - 5 March 2026
Not all that long off the heels of releasing parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden, developer Reikon Games have now announced that they'll be returning to their cyberpunk world Ruiner in the form of… well, it's just called Ruiner 2. And it's a sequel that sure, looks like more of the same, but the immediately noticeable difference in this one will be that you can play it with a couple of your buddies. Read more
- RUINER 2 | Coming Soon! - 5 March 2026
Reikon Games is proud to announce the global reveal and trailer for RUINER 2, a sequel to the cult-classic top-down shooter that evolves the franchise into a ruthless Cyberpunk ARPG. In RUINER 2, players will return to the city-scape & concrete hunting grounds of Rengkok.In RUINER 2, DEATH IS EARNED.RUINER 2 welcomes players back to Rengkok. It is a place where corporations don't just control lives—they own the copyright to a person’s death. The inhabitants are trapped in a cycle of servitude where dying is a breach of contract. The system is designed to keep people alive, productive...and suffering. Escape is not an option - it must be taken. To break the chains of this dystopic purgatory, players will have to force the world to let them go.The only way out is through. From low-level street gangs to the corporate elite, players will be the prey or hunter. Enemies close in from every an…
- Ruiner devs reportedly lay off over half of studio behind cyberpunk shooter - 26 January 2024
Reikon Games, the developers behind cyberpunky top-down shooter Ruiner , have reportedly become the latest studio to lay off dozens of staff, with over half of the Polish indie said to have lost their jobs earlier this week. Read more
- One of the best but most underrated games ever is now less than $4 - 4 August 2023
It's not often you get a game like Ruiner . Its influences are clear, with heavy dashes of Cyberpunk 2077, Hotline Miami, Deus Ex, and beloved anime movie Akira. But Ruiner is more than the sum of its parts. One of the best indie games of all time, it blends a neon-soaked, dystopian world, brutal twin-stick combat, and a blasting soundtrack to become something entirely unique and wonderful. And now, if you've never tried Ruiner before, you can get it for no more than the cost of lunch. Read the rest of the story... RELATED LINKS: Ruiner shows off cyborg Wolverine and Mother Engine in its Boss Bounties trailer Ruiner looks like a cyberpunk Hotline Miami, coming out next month Hands-on with Ruiner, the ultraviolent Neo Tokyo-based action shooter of your dreams
- Amazon sign first-look deal with the company planning Disco Elysium and Life Is Strange shows - 18 February 2022
Amazon Studios are considering making Prime shows and films based on video games, signing a first-look deal with the production company currently planning adaptations of games including Disco Elysium and Life Is Strange. This will give Amazon the first opportunity to snap up anything DJ2 Entertainment might be making, if they want to. This is not, however, an announcement that Amazon will make these specific shows. These shows still might never get made, by anyone. But maybe it's enough of a step forwards for you to start daydreaming about what such shows could be? Read more
- RUINER OST is now separate from the game! - 29 February 2020
Hello Puppies, We are back with one of the most frequently requested adjustments to our official soundtrack on Steam! From now on, you can purchase the RUINER OST on Steam independently of the game. It means that our soundtrack is purchasable and downloadable even by users who don't own the base game. To find it, go to your "music" directory inside the Steam client installation folder, rather than into a subdirectory of your main app. This adjustment is an extra change that was regularly suggested by our community. You can now use Steam Player to listen to your favourite songs from our OST. Here is how it looks: Enjoy, RUINERS https://store.steampowered.com/app/721620/RUINER_Official_Soundtrack/
- Nuclear Throne and Ruiner are this week's free Epic Store games - 8 November 2019
If you're looking to expand that insurmountable gaming backlog still further, then perhaps you might like to glance in the direction of the Epic Games Store, where once again a bony finger beckons through the crack in the curtain with the promise of more free games. And this week your freebie options are Ruiner and Nuclear Throne. Nuclear Throne, of course, is developer Vlambeer's acclaimed rogue-like top-down shooter, in which bullets, and a procession of gun-toting post-apocalyptic mutants, reign supreme. Eurogamer's Christian Donlan called it, "Vlambeer's most luxurious game" when he took it for a spin back in 2014, describing it as "perhaps the team's most demanding and multi-layered, too, throwing a tactical, almost strategic element into the mix behind all that shooting." Read more
- Nuclear Throne and Ruiner are free on the Epic Games Store - 7 November 2019
I hope you remembered to pick up Costume Quest and SOMA for free from the Epic Games Store, because if you didn't, you missed your chance. The good news, as the old saying goes, is that when one window closes, somebody throws a big rock through another one, and so it is that Nuclear Throne and Ruiner are now up for grabs for the week. Vlambeer's Nuclear Throne is an outstanding top-down roguelike shooter about mutants doing high-explosive battle for the titular throne. It's a few years old now, but one of the advantages of retro-style graphics is that they tend to age well, since they're effectively pre-aged at release—and it's final update was actually just released near the end of 2017, only a couple of years ago. The second selection, Ruiner, is also a top-down action game, but bears a far more modern visual style, with a color palette that "reaches de…
- Top-down blasters Ruiner and Nuclear Throne are this week's Epic Games Store freebies - 7 November 2019
If you like your violence from the perspective of a duck, or of a child who held onto their kite during a gale, then the two free games on Epic Games Store this week are very much for you. Both Ruiner and Nuclear Throne are top-down shooters, given freely as long as you grab them before next Thursday. Then the cycle of free stuff begins anew. (more…)
- Costume Quest and Soma are this week's Epic Games Store freebies - 1 November 2019
The Epic Games Store has a little Halloween treat for you, with both dress ’em up RPG Costume Quest and grim depths survival game Soma free for the next week. If you’re going to grab a freebie for your kiddy-winks, I urge you to be very careful with your clicks or prepare for some long nights ahead. Epic also just announced a few new additions to their storefront, so let’s take a look at that as well. (more…)
- Happy birthday Puppy! You're two years old now! - 26 September 2019
Hello Puppies, Wow, time goes by fast! But, in a cyberpunk future, time can be very relative. It’s pretty hard to believe that Puppy started his journey through the streets of Rengkok over two years ago. That’s right! Today marks exactly two years since we released Ruiner! And, during these two amazing years, we’ve been continuously working to make Ruiner even better. Additionally, we’ve started development on our new title that we will reveal next year. But, before that happens, we've still got a couple of aces up our sleeve. To celebrate Ruiner’s second anniversary, we have a little gift for you… a special birthday outfit for Puppy! Download the latest update and celebrate his birthday with some juicy kills while wearing a sweet birthday cake on your head. After all, it’s 2093. It’s called fashion. All the best, RUINERS
- CHEATER UPDATE is here! - 9 October 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F24311777%2Fd33c67e7d76fc2af638f4fcd14981c86b6ea5780.png How many times have you lost to TrafficKing? How many times were you running too low on energy to escape death? How many times have you missed a gun and never unlocked it until the end?... Lament no more! RUINER: Cheater Update lets you sit back and enjoy all of the game’s flavours to the fullest. Use to preview cheats and press the corresponding key to gain the upper hand. God mode - - become immortal. Not recommended by the Church of Disorder. Conserve energy - - stop worrying about the skills’ cost. Instantly renew 100% of energy. Add Karma - - Puppy’s unparalleled strength and quick reflexes now boosted to the max. Gain 25 cores and many points of Karma to instantly unlock all skills. Unlock all guns - - enter the carnage festival overpowered, guns blazing. Unlock…
- The cyberpunk art of Benedykt Szneider gave Ruiner a brutal beauty - 29 July 2018
Ruiner managed something few cyberpunk games do. It took some of the most cliched imagery the genre has and made it feel fresh. This was a game with Akira-style motorbikes, sushi stands, neon signs, katanas, ladies in leather, Japanese and Korean text everywhere, all crammed into a dirty Asian metropolis in the year 2091. What elevated it was the attitude, communicated in slow-mo ultraviolence, the excellent soundtrack , snappy one-liners and quotes—whether barked at the protagonist by his hacker handler or displayed on his distinctive helmet—and the manga visuals drenched in red. Ruiner was as slick as blood. As Ruiner's creative director, Benedykt Szneider was responsible for a lot of that. Have a look at some of his concept art in the gallery below, including early visualizations of the city of Rengkok as well as characters like the cyber-zombified drained hosts an…
- 2nd language update is live now! - 6 July 2018
Ciao! Merhaba! The second language update for RUINER has just arrived! This time it’s the long-awaited Italian and Turkish. Both localisations are complete and polished, locked and loaded. In the name of the whole Ruiner Team and the Turkish and Italian players, hats off and BIG THANKS to the translators, who did the work in their free time, out of sheer goodness of Their Hearts and the love for Ruiner. Standing ovation goes to: The Turkish group: AiBell Game Localization The Italian group: Alessio Patroncini Claudio Lenato Jacopo Cremonesi Marco Mottura Riccardo Di Giovanni Simona Giusti Thanks again, Puppies
- The final version of RUINER for Linux is here! *[EDIT]* - 17 April 2018
https://cdn.steampulse.org/steam/asset?u=https%3A%2F%2Fsteamcdn-a.akamaihd.net%2Fsteamcommunity%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fclans%2F24311777%2Ffb1c3d0441a5e70188b41547e3ae57e878117d0c.png Hello Penguins and Puppies, Tux Update is now complete and official. No need to switch to the Linux beta anymore! - get it directly from the default branch. Your invaluable support and feedback helped us: fix the crash, eliminate in-game stuttering and boost performance, added Steam Cloud support, fix cutscenes flickering, improve cutscenes’ quality (WIP) fix cutscenes audio problems. The cutscenes may still play in lower quality, but we’re working on it. For gamepads, you can use software of your choice, but we recommend ds4drv, xboxdrv and Xpad kernel driver which we have tested and we know they work. ** "The final update has just arrived. Cutscene quality improved immensely, crashes on menus obliterated, performance boosted. Enjoy your smooth ride, Penguin Puppies!…
- The May Humble Monthly kicks off with Kerbal Space Program, Dead Rising 4, and Ruiner - 6 April 2018
The Humble Bundlers have unveiled the new Humble Monthly for May , which features Kerbal Space Program, Dead Rising 4, and Ruiner, plus more games to be revealed later, for $12.  The Humble Monthly is a subscription-based program that offers up a different collection of games each month. A few "early unlock" games are revealed at the start of each month to whet your appetite, while the rest is held back as a surprise: Last month's bundle, for instance, started with Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, God Eater 2 Rage Burst, and Mafia 3, and then tacked on Outlast 2, Lara Croft GO, Subterrain, Aer: Memories of Old, Laser League, and Lyric Sonata by the end of the month. That's not bad for 12 bucks, and you can cancel whenever you want. Any games you've picked up prior to cancellation are yours to keep.    Five percent of funds raised by the May Humble Monthly will go…
