World in Ruins

Information

Status

Hiatus

Year

2022

Author

Astrael

• Chapter 29
  May 24, 2022
• Chapter 28
  May 21, 2022
• Chapter 27
  May 16, 2022
• Chapter 26
  May 5, 2022
• Chapter 25
  May 5, 2022
• Chapter 24
  May 4, 2022
• Chapter 23
  May 4, 2022
• Chapter 22
  May 4, 2022
• Chapter 21
  May 3, 2022
• Chapter 20
  May 3, 2022
• Chapter 19
  May 3, 2022
• Chapter 18
  May 2, 2022
• Chapter 17
  May 1, 2022
• Chapter 16
  May 1, 2022
• Chapter 15 - Interlude
  Apr 26, 2022
• Chapter 14
  Apr 26, 2022
• Chapter 13
  Apr 25, 2022
• Chapter 12
  Apr 25, 2022
• Chapter 11
  Apr 14, 2022
• Chapter 10
  Apr 14, 2022

Reviews

Community Reviews(7)

• Sam9018Royal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  Just a heads up if you're on mobile the aggravating spacing gets solved by the 3rd or 4th chapter.
  But onto the actual review. I'm loving the story so far. The author is ontop of responses to comments and fixing change suggestions which is an awesome thing to see. I've almost caught up to the current chapters and the main charchter continues to grow on me. All of his powers feel earned and they are used in a logical way which is a huge plus.
  If you're looking for a satisfying story to binge you should check this out.
• LeEichinRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I really enjoyed reading all the chapters and can't wait for more to come. Overall I really think the story is quite good and vividly told.
  The writing style is really enjoyable which means a lot to me since I can't read anything if I don't enjoy the writing style. It's easy to read and the story is really good told without unnecessary breaks ore over explaining.
  The story continues to amaze me and really gets you hooked even after the first few chapters. The characters really work well together and you don't have boring chaperters inbetween which I personally think can kill even the best story.
  The grammar is also quite good. There where no mistakes I would have found (maybe some really small ones you would catch as an native speaker) and it's easy to read even if english isn't your first language, especially because the are no unnecesarraly long an complicated sentences.
  The characters a really good developed and with every chapter you get to know more about them. Of course the main Charakter Alex has the most development but I am quite sure the other characters will have that income as the book continues. And while reading further you really get why they ar the way they are while still remaining some mystery about them.
  So in conclusion I think it's a really good read with hopefully more to come.
• TelRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  The story itself is fairly surprising so I don't really want to spoil the fine details. I call it Lord of the Flies and it is, lots of children in a vacuum free from adults, and all the ego driven issues that surround teens and preteens when more emotionally stable adults are not around.
  As a writathon story it's not the worst, and actually has a lot of promise now that the story is finding it's footing.
  There is a fair amount of early bullying, but things seem to be moving beyond that to more exploration based growth.
  So giving it five stars because of world building, the fact that the dialog is fairly well written, having a dozen or so well characterized teenage and preteen characters, and an interlude that works well as an info dump.
  Lots of teen emotion, but if that is your thing it is a good read.
• fiffeRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 5.0

  I absolutely enjoyed reading all your chapters by now. Above all I like, that you describe the characters so vividly. The main character (Alex) always kind of reminds me of someone I know.
  Can't wait to find out what's happening next... :)
  I hope you'll always find creativity and motivation to go on with your writing and storytelling :)
• Chaos JesterRoyal Road

  ★★★★★ 4.5

  A post-apocalyptic story that manages to still have that isekai feel without going into that isekai realm.
  The style of this story in and of itself is well executed. The darker, gritty atmosphere mixed nicely with the well thought out system. It's not the slowest paced, but stays true to classic progression in that our MC is slowly developing his moveset from the bottom up.
  Any grammatical errors I saw were easily chalked up to writathon and other things. The author is obviously willing to take any suggestions on grammar, which in the end, is all I can ask for.
  The story itself is an intriguing one. Whereas this early on, the main character only seems to be an orphan for flavor rather than any significant reason, everything else fits into the story nicely. Classic progression fantasy shouldn't be rushed along, and the author manages to hit those notes while also maintaining quickly earned powers and enough action to keep a reader interested.
  This early on, Alex is a bit of a one note character. As progression protagonists grow in power, they typically grow in personality, so there is a lot of hope there. The only interaction this early with other characters was not only fun and entertaining, but helped explain some of the mechanics of the system, which was really well done.
  Over all, World in Ruins is a fun trip of post-apocalyptic progression fantasy with a bit of a darker spin than normal. It has a lot of potential, and has started off on all the right feet.
• GloryHound1929Royal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  Has good worldbuilding and original idea, but the writing is not very polished, the narration too formal, dialogue stilted. Is very much like George Lucas, great at plot and worldbuilding, not so much at the story telling part. Lost me after chapter 10 - when four other people saved him, it was like out of nowhere, no explanation who they were. Very jarring.
• SrayanRoyal Road

  ★★★ 3.0

  It's not bad. Writing style is decent, grammar is good. No obvious hang ups. I originally gave this one a 2.5 but upgraded to 3. I felt that just because I thought it could be so much better didn't mean that it is not currently OK. It's not always easy to put a finger on how to cross the gap between Ok and great.
  The story is based on a GRIMDARK premise that teenagers will usually behave in the worst and nastiest possible way to each other in a crisis. For the benefit of any teens out there I should emphasise that this hypothesis has been demonstrated to be completely false on many occasions. Despite fiction such as this Iand "Lord of the Flies") - bearing in mind that  LOTF was an allegory - not meant to be descriptive.
  Teenagers are actually among the most idealistic and self sacrificing of humans in reality. Of course this is fantasy artwork so readers will let this one go by.
  However that's not the main problem with this story. Although personally I find the atmosphere of the story is much closer to GRIMDARK than many stories actually flagged as such. There is not much real humanity in the story up to the chapter I have read.
  That said the most frustrating element is the combination of a skill system that doesn't seem to work. In other words the author enables the MC to acquire skills (MYTHICAL class whatever that's supposed to mean - because the author definitely doesn't seem to know what mythic means) but then the skills really don't work. I checked if the MC used them. So "mythic", I think that was a typo - try "mediocre".
  Of course the mC does act in naive and stupid ways, because the plot needs him to, and the real problem is the giving of skills in a system based universe, and then making the skills for a mythic class apparently useless or ineffective. If they actually worked the MC would probably be ok - but as it is he is screwed. Even against humdrum opposition. This element lacks any explanation.
  I suspect it is just because it suits the author to move