Ruin Me

In Barrowport, a town of dark mysteries, your mysterious employer declared, "I want you to ruin me."

As a professor of antiquities, you assumed your new position would involve investigating strange artifacts and stories of monsters. You didn't expect that young Terry Radcliffe would know your forbidden secret or that they would beg you to lead her down a path of depravity.

In this queer erotic horror visual novel, you train the young Radcliffe in the ways of perversion as a slow burn while seeking out mysteries that will immediately lead to your own erotic peril.

• Play as a man, woman, or nonbinary person, choosing your anatomy and presentation. 
• Pick between Theresa or Terrence as your student, with all outfits and training steps available for both.
• Find yourself in both dominant and submissive situations, and explore kinks including power exchange, humiliation, teratophilia, watersports, and exhibitionism.
• Meet potential human sex partners with a variety of genders, body types, races, and sexual interests.
• Encounter monster partners that are weird and scary instead of humans with ears and tails.
• Experience horror heavily inspired by Lovecraft, but with all of the racist gross stuff replaced with sexy gross stuff.
• No jump scares, but occasional sudden transitions and many challenging ideas.

Content warning: this game is intended for adults. It contains explicit images and text. If you are not of legal age to view such things where you live, you may not download the game. Additionally, please review the themes below.

Note: The downloadable version of the game does not currently support 32-bit devices. The public and patron-only web versions should work.

Reception

The story is captivating and the author certainly has a wonderful sense of pacing: corruption doesn't occur in a vacuum, but intermittently around quests and discovery of the strange world you've landed in.

- F95zone user

...Twilight Zone mixed with porn mixed with horrors beyond human comprehension.

- itch.io discussion comment

came for  a lewd, stayed for a story

- itch.io discussion comment

Themes

Nightmares, sexual training, submission/domination, erotic peril, monster sex (including bestial monsters), body horror, forced orgasms, oviposition, body fluids, mind control, and more. More extreme kinks are optional and come with warnings. 

Support Development

Ruin Me is free, but new updates will be exclusive to patrons for a limited time. To get development news, early access to updates, and even influence development, support me on Patreon!

Progress

The public release of Ruin Me is currently in version 0.61.1, with around 20 hours of play. This includes:

• an opening and tutorial
• six story sequences that progress the story through the middle of Act III
• 12 training sequences for Terry (with 3-4 scenes each), unlocking 23 play scenes
  
• five minor ruination sequences with NPCs
  
• three different sequences to celebrate Terry's graduation
• 16 horror expeditions (with erotic scenes)
• many smaller NPC play scenes, some sexual, some not
• three skippable side activities that unlock other parts of the game
• customization of Terry's language, behavior, grooming, outfit, body markings, piercings, breakfast routine, and kinky accessories
• two minor explorations with erotic story
• two opt-in modifiers that add niche fetishes (filth and soft NTR) to existing scenes
• procedural atmospheric text and many unique nightmares triggered by the events of the story

The patron-only release is at 0.62.0.p and includes:

• a new NPC with two play scenes
• two drugs that allow you to skip or trigger nightmares
• a minor exploration triggered by another strange drug
• an assortment of fixes and enhancements
• the ability to Reminisce about previous scenes

The final game will provide a weird horror plot in three acts, turning Terry into a proud slut and resolving an existential threat to Barrowport and the world.

Approach

Ruin Me depends much more on text than on images. Not all sex scenes are drawn and character art is optional. It's primarily a text game with supplemental illustration.