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Tome of Ruin: The Word Dungeon · Castle Darkmoor Games

A dark fantasy RPG where every word is a weapon: spell to strike, loot five-star gear and fight through 200 floors to the Book of Evil.

Fact Sheet

Fact sheet as plain text: tome_of_ruin_fact_sheet.txt

Description

A hero wakes in a merciless world, convinced it is only a dream, with no memory of how they got there. The only weapon they have is words.

Tome of Ruin began as a word game. System after system was linked together until, after 2,000 hours of work, it became a full RPG in the spirit of the classic dungeon crawlers: 8 dungeons, 200 floors, 160 monsters and more than 30 special characters and bosses, with over 15 hours of play.

You fight by typing. Longer words and rarer letters hit harder, and every monster has its own way of hitting back. Between fights, the RPG takes over: choose a hero of strength or of magic, complete a promotion quest for a new class and active skills, and fill 12 socket slots with charms, runes, a talisman and a sigil. Items come in 1 to 5 stars, and the Enchanting Table can upgrade them, or destroy them.

Story quests, an Arena of bosses and wanted outlaws keep the road ahead full. Three difficulty levels and an optional Hardcore mode decide how much a mistake costs.

Choose English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French or German words for your hero. Over 1,000 of them come with a picture and a short meaning, collected in an illustrated dictionary as you spell them.

Key Features

• Words are weapons: type to attack; longer words and rare letters deal more damage.
• A real RPG, not a deckbuilder: two heroes, class promotions, active skills, 12 socket slots.
• Five-star loot: items from 1 to 5 stars, an Enchanting Table with real risk, gems to combine.
• A big world: 8 dungeons, 200 floors, 160 monsters, 30+ special characters and bosses, 15+ hours.
• Quests, Arena and outlaws: story quests, Arena bosses and wanted outlaws with their own rewards.
• Your challenge: Easy, Normal and Ruin difficulty, plus Hardcore: one life.
• Five word languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese (Brazil), French, German.
• The Lexicon: an illustrated dictionary of over 1,000 words that fills up as you play.

Trailer

YouTube: youtube.com/watch?v=3CWKctkLDU8 · Download-quality MP4 on request.

Screenshots

1920×1080, no watermarks. Click to open the full size.

Young Dragon Diamond Golem Gold Chest Arena: Malzareth Medusa Ancient Behemoth Lich Arcane Charm Enchanting Table The Collector Stone Golem Rest Point: Dragon Cave

GIFs

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Key Art

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Logos and Capsules

Game logo, transparent PNG · 1580×525 Studio emblem · 360×360 Main capsule · 1232×706 Header capsule · 920×430 Vertical capsule · 748×896

About Castle Darkmoor Games

Castle Darkmoor Games was founded in 2025 by people who grew up with the classic RPGs of the past and never stopped playing them. We make dark fantasy role-playing games with deep dungeons, hard choices and loot worth fighting for. Tome of Ruin: The Word Dungeon is our first game. More about the studio.

AI Disclosure

Tome of Ruin is a content-rich game with a dense visual world: 160 monsters, more than 30 special characters and bosses, 8 dungeons with their own rooms and backgrounds, and over 1,000 illustrated words. To build a world of this size, some of its artwork, music and character voices were created with the help of AI tools; every piece was then selected, edited and put together by our team. The game does not generate any content while you play.

Contact and Keys

Press, content creators and curators: write to info@castledarkmoor.com with your outlet or channel and we will send a Steam key for the full game before launch. All screenshots, art and logos on this page may be used in coverage of Tome of Ruin.