[4][5] Ruiner takes place in 2091 in Rengkok and its surrounding facilities, owned by Heaven, a conglomerate led by a man referred to in-game as the Boss.

Earning the Creeps' leadership, they find Wizard and hack into his brain, killing him in the process and leading them to the Hanza Compound, a factory that manufactures machine parts.

Puppy, led by Her and accompanied by the tamed TrafficKing, scour the Imagination Farms for his brother's signal, and are confronted by Geminus, a dual-personality cyborg that presents itself as two twin sisters that act as host to Mother.

[9][10][11][12] Omri Pettite of PC Gamer stated that "Ruiner is gorgeous, a sensory feast inspired by the works of cyberpunk's 1980s heyday, in which a silent, masked protagonist travels through the nightscapes and industrial jungles of a grit-tech 2091.

Underneath, a thumping top-down action game delivers sword-sharp combat, the familiarity of its design offset by the constant urge to simply stand still and drink everything in.

"[4] On August 20, 2024, it was announced that Universal Pictures had acquired the rights to develop a film adaptation of the game with Wes Ball directing and Michael Arlen Ross writing the screenplay.

The film will be produced by Kelly McCormick and David Leitch of 87North Productions alongside Ball and Joe Hartwick Jr. of Oddball Entertainment and Dmitri M. Johnson and Mike Goldberg of Story Kitchen.