History VideoGame / LibraryOfRuina

* KickTheSonOfABitch: You also put down pretty nasty people in the Library, like [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals,]] the cronies of corrupt rich elites, and Finger thugs.

* AnAesop:
** A simple, but timeless one: a FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse. No matter what happens to you in life, it is unacceptable to visit pain upon others to cure your own. Half of the major cast learns to express this moral in some way, with the climax of the story being [[spoiler:Angela realizing how much damage she's caused and undoing it while stating that she's doing so to end the CycleOfRevenge, and Roland dropping his desire for blind revenge and becoming actual friends with Angela]].
** RevengeBeforeReason inevitably brings forth disaster. [[spoiler:Roland and Angela's motivations can be summed up as revenge against their unfortunate consequences despite the source of their sorrow being long gone. If they "succeed" in their revenge, they lose everything — Angela remains trapped in the Library and becomes just another Star of the City to eventually be shot down, while Roland dies an inglorious death with nothing left to live for]]. Even Guests who were once rational professionals demonstrate this; their loved ones get booked inside the Library, and they decide to storm the building in revenge only to be booked anyway, causing a chain of DisasterDominoes that ensures the entities who could otherwise [[spoiler:stop the Reverberation Ensemble from spreading the Seed of Light are removed from the picture]].

** As mentioned in AnAesop above, the overarching theme of the game deconstructs the idea of {{Revenge}} to its most cynical degree, and can be summed up very succinctly: no matter how much you think your revenge will only affect you, [[CreateYourOwnVillain your actions]] [[UnwittingPawn will]] [[AllForNothing have consequences.]] This is taken to the most logical conclusion when it comes to [[spoiler:Roland and Angela]]; For [[spoiler:Roland, he went into an insane RoaringRampageOfRevenge against people who had literally nothing to do with his wife's death, which caused many of his victims to Distort and form the Reverberation Ensemble who nearly thrown the entire City into unprecedented chaos. This is to say nothing of how many other factions he screwed over in his quest for revenge, up to and including several of his old friends and allies.]] For [[spoiler: Angela, Ayin's neglect and his orders that forced her to be as cruel to his fellow Sephirot as possible caused her to become a vengeful machine who halted the Seed of Light and manifested the Library, and was manipulated by Carmen into obtaining the "One True Book" for the sake of a selfish goal of "freedom".]] And even if [[spoiler: Angela and Roland succeed in their revenge, they will be denied a proper closure and fade away - Angela never gets the freedom she sought for and merely becomes a Star that lets herself shot down after more than a decade of terror, and Roland relapses into doing shady businesses and taking drugs before he loses the will to live and lets his former friends and enemies kill him]].

The game has been fully released as of August 2021. Later updates on PC also added an "Invitation Editor" allowing users to create their own custom battles for the game.

''Library of Ruina'' is a [[DeckBuildingGame Deck Building]] TurnBasedStrategy {{RPG}} developed and published by South Korean independent video game studio Creator/ProjectMoon. It was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access on May 15, 2020. The game is a direct sequel to ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' and as such reveals important plot points about the game's main plot and ending.

''Library Of Ruina'' is a [[DeckBuildingGame Deck Building]] TurnBasedStrategy {{RPG}} developed and published by South Korean independent video game studio Creator/ProjectMoon. It was released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} Early Access on May 15, 2020. The game is a direct sequel to ''VideoGame/LobotomyCorporation'' and as such reveals important plot points about the game's main plot and ending.

* NotQuiteDead: [[spoiler: The guests who fall within the Library are put into an "eternal sleep." Whether or not they get awoken depends on Angela's success.]]

** Angela, whose interruption of the Seed of Light started the Distortion phenomenon and all the carnage which that led to in turn. A major part of her character is her [[NeverMyFault refusal to accept responsibility for collateral damage]] since, as Roland's philosophy seems to justify, "This is this and that's that."

* GameplayAndStoryIntegration: The three unique Key pages only attributable to certain Patron librarians are by and large the most powerful Key pages in the entire game. This is only fair, since the three Librarians these belong to are [[spoiler: two Color Fixers and an Arbiter.]] In particular, [[spoiler: Gebura's Red Mist exclusive Key page turns her into an [[LightningBruiser absolute monster,]] capable of producing immense amounts of damage and regenerating a ton of Light, while Roland's Black Silence Keypage is a powerful MasterOfAll that is strong in pretty much every scenario. Their unique Key Pages are also why they're the only Librarians to take part in the battle against the Head - since Angela had released all the other books, no other Librarian would have a Key Page needed to take them on]].

Has no relation to ''VideoGame/RuinaFairyTaleOfTheForgottenRuins''.

On February 2023 a sequel of its own was released on PC and mobile: ''VideoGame/LimbusCompany''.