library of ruina is imo the best turn-based game ever made. Subbing out the conventional "hit your enemies and get hit backed with pretty much zero counterplay other than raising your numbers" that is so absurdly common within the genre with a far more enjoyable clashing system makes for an incredibly unique experience that's hard to find anywhere else. Between 10 different floors, each with their own unique pages, and a variety of different key pages, there is a nearly unlimited build variety such as
-Myongest Yesod
-Myongest Gebura
-Tiphereth
-Binah (better tiphereth)
The game features 2 primary battle types: Receptions and Abnormality Suppression. Receptions are more conventional fights in which you fight 1-3 waves of enemies in order to gain their books while learning more about the city and the people inside through a series of 8 short stories. The abnormality suppressions are a series of 3-4 more gimmicky fights done sporadically through the game that are meant to strengthen your floors and symbolically tell the stories of our main characters, the "dead-girlfriend-turned-robot-malcolm-x" Angela and the "dead wife item asylum guy" Roland.
Balance wise the game is... Interesting. You don't notice the dice numbers go up throughout the game (oh yeah i forgot to mention the combat is just rolling dice) and i believe this shows the best during the bridge between UN and SOTC, since early UN cards such as repressed flesh or sharp knives roll about the same as later cards with similar functions (Sharp Knives and Emotional Turbulence actually roll exactly the same with the main difference being ET gets +1 power to all dice for every 2 emotion levels). There's also the fact that some floors are just kind of better than others. Yesod's floor is bar none the best floor in the game because of dark flame (and chained wrath for myongest) whereas floors such as Hod or Tiphereth have basically nothing. Hod is a generalist floor outclassed by Malkuth, Chesed, and to a lesser extent Netzach while Tiphereth is an exodia floor with harder setup and less reward than Binah and to some degree Gebura (though I wouldn't call Gebura much of an exodia floor).
yeah that's about it, play this stupid deckbuilder if you haven't and it's nice to get back into doing writeups about random bullshit on CONG
