Last updated on December 8th, 2025 at 04:27 am
Avernum 3: Ruined World HD – Roleplaying Game Review
Avernum 3: Ruined World HD is a Roleplaying/Strategy game from Spiderweb Software, first launched in 23rd April 2018.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 34+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Avernum 3: Ruined World HD Stand Out
Avernum 3: Ruined World is an epic, indie fantasy role-playing adventure with many hours of gameplay. Explore an enormous world that evolves as time passes. Towns are destroyed. Refugees flee. Disasters happen. Avernum 3 is the conclusion to our hit indie fantasy trilogy!
Your people long to escape from their underworld prison, but the surface world is being destroyed. Fight plagues of bizarre monsters and win your freedom. Enjoy an intricate tactical battle system with multitudes of abilities, character traits, and unique magical artifacts.
Avernum 3: Ruined World features:
- No hidden fees. Pay once, get the entire game!
- Epic fantasy adventure with over 60 hours of gameplay. Explore an enormous underworld and a huge surface continent.
- Rich game system with over 60 spells and battle disciplines and a multitude of beneficial character traits to choose from.
- Well over 100 towns and dungeons, which change as time passes. Cities crumble as the monster plagues advance.
- Fight to save the world. Or don’t! Do odd jobs. Be a bounty hunter or merchant. Buy a house.
- Unique races and settings make Avernum different from any adventure out there.
- Over 100 side quests and hundreds of magical artifacts.
The story of Avernum 3 is self-contained, and previous experience with Avernum games isn't required.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Avernum 3: Ruined World HD is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 20th March 2025
Recent improvements include:
Minor tweaks and typo fixes.
Download & Availability
Avernum 3: Ruined World HD is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Avernum 3: Ruined World HD on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We played exile 3:ruined world for what seemed like countless hours as a kid. We love this new rendition.
This is the largest of the first 3 Avernum games by far, its been fun and challenging. We just found a bug though, if you give an item to the same character that has the item, it just disappears. Trading between characters is fine but if you accidentally send it to the currently selected character, its gone forever. Not sure if that issue exists on the other games, we havent tried it out yet.
Development included a huge, well-planned outlay and enormous care to make this a benchmark adventure game. It provided weeks of fun, challenging play. One complication is that several versions of the original game seem to have been released over the last 20 years, and with differences by platform; so when players hunt for hints and tips online, they often find irrelevant, unhelpful or obsolete solutions. The other problem for us was the absence of a single-source guide. Ive read that others players have them, but we couldnt find one, so the learning curve was steeper than it needed to be, and we wasted a lot of time hunting for help, sometimes unsuccessfully.
The Avernum series is just the best RPG value on iPad. Do them all in order. The campaign world is huge with delightful weirdness around every corner and hours upon hours of play. Ignore the NPCs who pressure you to complete the main quests quickly, just take your time and thoroughly explore and don't finish before game day 160. Then when you finish, start over again with a walkthrough/quest list to catch everything you missed.
From an Exile OG – great story, solid mechanics, fulfilling gameplay. Lots of secrets to discover. Looks just right for an iPad. Fans of baldurs gate, planescape torment, kings bounty, pillars of eternity will enjoy.
Do you like old school RPGs? What are you waiting for? Pretty sure this is the largest of the Avernum games. We played for about 10 hours before even thinking about going to the large over world. Plays great on iPad Pro with the Apple Pencil. Bonus: save games are transferable to Mac.
If you like old school isometric rpgs, the Avernum and Avadon games are fantastic. Id start from the beginning of the series, because then this one is a real treat when you get to actually go to the surface. We love it, and wish the other older spiderweb games would get this same treatment. We waited patiently for the iPad version to come out, because it just works perfectly and because it is way harder to find great games for the iPad than for the PC. Enjoy.
The iPad has a right way up if you are using an Apple-brand case, but this game only displays upside down.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.3
- Size: 282.68 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Spiderweb Software
Last updated: 20th March 2025 | Genre: Roleplaying, Strategy | Developer: Spiderweb Software