Road to Ruin

Road to Ruin is a figment of someone’s mind, their emotions, digitized and wrapped in a two tone world and presented to you as an atmospheric exploration game. There is no distinct purpose to it, other than offering you an experience.

Road to Ruin doesn’t have an introduction, it doesn’t need it. It’s creator thought it out to be a means to communicate ideas and emotions without using a verbal form. You make your first steps in silence and with each step, it vanishes.

The world around you is a blend of small and large individual and clusters of shapes that are hit from one side by a bright teal light. The way you see the rubble, pillars, buildings, arches and everything else depends on your vantage point and angle relative to them. It’s something that can become really confusing because you might find yourself in total darkness but at the same time it creates a sensation of restlessness and loneliness.

In Road to Ruin you are free to make sense of what you find there. There are no description plaques posted around and most of the time it’s rather hard to understand what’s in front. You will however have no trouble in seeing and hearing the heavy machinery that constantly pollutes. The moment you get close to them is the one you can actually piece together what this place is.

Regardless of where your thoughts take you, the excellent sound effects will always be there. You won’t be able to shake their strange and sometimes frightening nature. More so when you encounter the beings that float around in their own aura of audio.

On a closing note, Road to Ruin is well balanced between casual exploration and intense moments. It sometimes feels like it could have been better from a visual point of view but as the space around you becomes overwhelming, so does the audio and the aforementioned setback fades away,