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Advance Wars: Days of Ruin (2008)

Intelligent Systems

Nintendo DS · Nintendo DSi

3.72 from 244 ratings

629 members have it in their collection · 10 playing now · 197 backlogged · 120 wish listed

How long? Main story 10h · with extras 10h (from 3 logged playthroughs)

Days of Ruin takes place in an entirely new world where a large-scale meteor shower triggered massive global destruction that eradicated 90 percent of the population. After the catastrophe, the survivors have formed together into militaristic bands that are warring over the last remaining scraps of civilization. You'll take control of Will, a young military cadet (whose hair is admittedly … Read more
Days of Ruin takes place in an entirely new world where a large-scale meteor shower triggered massive global destruction that eradicated 90 percent of the population. After the catastrophe, the survivors have formed together into militaristic bands that are warring over the last remaining scraps of civilization. You'll take control of Will, a young military cadet (whose hair is admittedly just a little spiky) who quickly becomes embroiled in the conflict at the outset of the game. Read less
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Details

Developers
Intelligent Systems
Publishers
Nintendo
Genres
Strategy, Turn-based strategy (TBS)
Themes
Warfare
Franchises
Wars
Series
Advance Wars

Release dates

  • Jan 21, 2008 (North_America) Nintendo DS
  • Jan 21, 2008 (Japan) Nintendo DS
  • Jan 25, 2008 (Europe) Nintendo DS
  • Feb 21, 2008 (Australia) Nintendo DS
  • Oct 30, 2013 (Japan) Nintendo DSi
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Rating distribution

5 stars
46
4 stars
106
3 stars
72
2 stars
18
1 star
2
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cagebox

Review cagebox 4/5 · Oct 7, 2025

My First Advanced War

I really do like this game but i HATE some of the levels. I can’t for the life of me beat the one with the giant bomb falling in middle of the level. And i’m no slouch at Advanced War. I’ve beaten the original thoroughly (even though I’m not exactly amazing - I struggle with indirect units). I never beat …

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I really do like this game but i HATE some of the levels. I can’t for the life of me beat the one with the giant bomb falling in middle of the level. And i’m no slouch at Advanced War. I’ve beaten the original thoroughly (even though I’m not exactly amazing - I struggle with indirect units). I never beat the game because I just never cared to slog through the end of the campaign.

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NoahsBarks.com

Status NoahsBarks.com Feb 6, 2025

all S ranks in Advance Wars: Days of Ruin obtained! the first AW game I've done this for. It was a super fun project. I'm sad the game has the least content of any entry. enter image description here

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NoahsBarks.com

Status NoahsBarks.com Jan 28, 2025

picked up AW: Days of Ruin again last night. got a new S rank. i can't believe we finally got an entry that realized the potential of these mechanics, then the series died. then they revived it, applied nothing learned, AND gave it to WayForward. war really is hell.

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thebigmack

Status thebigmack Oct 11, 2024

Old data is interesting.

Something pristinely held in place and perfect, only to disappear if without power, is nothing short of poetic. A digitized microcosm of life. In this case, packed into a little game of war.

My save file in Days of Ruin, has been safely entombed since its creation during a lonely and anxious subway ride in 2008. …

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Old data is interesting.

Something pristinely held in place and perfect, only to disappear if without power, is nothing short of poetic. A digitized microcosm of life. In this case, packed into a little game of war.

My save file in Days of Ruin, has been safely entombed since its creation during a lonely and anxious subway ride in 2008. I have dug it out sporadically and have changed immeasurably since.

Thankfully, the game has not. The Advance Wars series has continually absorbed my attention across all this time with each return to my hand.

The Days of Ruin journey is likely my longest bookended single player save game file. I'm approaching the last two campaign missions, feeling happy to fulfill the save files' purpose and move on from the title.

I'll keep the save file, for whoever I am in the future. Although, my hope is to remember when I finished it, instead of who I was when it was first made. Thankfully, we're not frozen in time the same way Data can be.

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thebigmack

Status thebigmack Sep 23, 2021

I dug out my DS to see where I left off on Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. The last time I played was 10 years ago. I couldn't remember much aside from a grim spin on the series and good ol tactics goodness!

Turns out its about an incurable virus that slowly kills its host...

Maybe I'll put it back …

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I dug out my DS to see where I left off on Advance Wars: Days of Ruin. The last time I played was 10 years ago. I couldn't remember much aside from a grim spin on the series and good ol tactics goodness!

Turns out its about an incurable virus that slowly kills its host...

Maybe I'll put it back in the collection for another 10 years.

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Human_Traffic

Status Human_Traffic Nov 22, 2018

I was a bit hesitant to play this, since it's the last game of the franchise and it was released ten years ago. Intelligent Systems seem to only care about Fire Emblem at this point. It's always a bit sad to reach the end of a franchise. So far I really like the new setting and the music, I'm really …

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I was a bit hesitant to play this, since it's the last game of the franchise and it was released ten years ago. Intelligent Systems seem to only care about Fire Emblem at this point. It's always a bit sad to reach the end of a franchise. So far I really like the new setting and the music, I'm really excited.

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