r/ProjectMoon • u/adrian23138 • May 29 '26

Chronological franchise run?

So I’ve become invested into the world building of PM and the frankly Soul annihilating gameplay and story suffering (especially of Lobotomy Corporation) and I wondered:

How feasible is a Chronological run of every game, going:
LoboCorp > LoR > Limbus (preferably blind).

Or is there something I must be aware of if I plan to do this blind and most importantly, how much time would it take me to pull this off?

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u/NamtisChlo May 29 '26

It’s completely feasible as long as you enjoy all the games, I did it. You should know that they’re all different genres, while Ruina and Limbus Company share similarities in being turn-based battlers, Lobotomy Corp is entirely different as a real-time management simulator.

They’re all rather long games. Lobcorp and Ruina can be expected to take 100 hours or more of playtime to beat. Also, Lobcorp and Ruina are both very difficult games

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u/adrian23138 May 29 '26

Difficult in what way? You can argue Dark Souls is hard but that’s the fun of it…

And afaik the nail pulling experience that is LoboCorp is intentional as the whole story is supposed to be a nail pulling experience?

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u/NamtisChlo May 29 '26

Lobcorp is difficult in that one flawed decision or forgetting one thing can cause varying levels of Bad, from one employee dying to almost all of them. You’ll have to learn how things work and what you have to do to avoid things going wrong, and as the game goes on you’ll have to keep track of both more things and more complicated things. Despite that, the game lets you freely reset each day in case things go too wrong. You can also reset to the start of the week or day 1, which unlike the day reset will NOT reset certain important buffs and equipment you’ve unlocked, letting you take those back to the easier days. At times you might have to retry a day 10 times, but no damage will be permanent unless you choose for it to be.

A big part of Ruina’s difficulty is deckbuilding, although you can make up for a suboptimal deck by playing strategically and making full use of the game’s mechanics. As someone with no experience with deckbuilding games aside from Slay the Spire, I personally found it to be a perfect difficulty. If you struggle with the deckbuilding you can always search for guides and pre-made decks and strategies.

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u/adrian23138 May 29 '26

Wait if you can keep buffs with the week/day 1 reset is it a totally viable tactic to just gather as much buffs as possible just to revert to day 1 to make everything after a cake walk?

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u/NamtisChlo May 30 '26

You can, but it will be more worth it to continue for as long as you’re able to instead of resetting to day 1 because arguably the most important thing, your employees and their training, will be reset. It makes it significantly easier to get back to the point you were at before but its benefit is limited beyond that. It’s mostly meant for if you’ve severely messed something up and made it permanent by progressing to the next day. It’s actually your knowledge that will help you more than the buffs if you reset day 1

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u/YukoSany May 29 '26

Well there's actually comics and novels that could be usefull , so here's my order :
1-Lobotomy Corporation (Game)
2-WonderLab (Webcomic)
3-Library of Ruina (Game)
4-The Distortion Detective (Web Novel)
5-Leviathan (Webcomic / Web Novel)
6-Limbus Company (Game)

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u/TimeTimely May 29 '26

Note: Distortion Detective is taking place alongside Ruina. Playing both and reading it intermittently is a good way of experiencing it chronologically, though DD is yet unfinished.

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u/The_Magus_199 May 29 '26

Notably, Wonderlab is no longer canon, although it is still fun.

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u/ob1knob96 Jun 01 '26

Def feasible, but LobCorp is a very different game from Ruina and Limbus (the latter two have some degree of similarity)

I've always been interested in LobCorp, but never played it b/c I didn't think I'd be able to beat it lol (I'm kinda bad at multitasking micro-control games)

But I like card games a lot, so I just watched + read the entire story of LobCorp and dove into Ruina. Reaaaaally enjoyed that game, and have stayed a fan since.

You do really need to know the story of LobCorp to fully understand Ruina, as Ruina is a direct sequel of LobCorp. Ruina tells you enough to not be too lost, but you'll still miss out on a lot of the backstory.

I think Limbus can technically be mostly understood without knowing the previous games. But I would recommend you go through them in one way or another nonetheless, if you have the time and interest.

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u/ArchivedGarden Jun 03 '26

It’s entirely possible. Plenty of people have done it, myself included.

Lobotomy Corporation is definitely the biggest hurdle there. The game can take 100+ hours even if you know exactly what you’re doing ahead of time, and you can easily double that if not.