Games like Ruggnar
If Ruggnar is your kind of game, the closest matches are Dwarf Journey, Kalinur and Project Delta — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its high replayability for speedruns, light reveals safe paths and atmospheric. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →About Ruggnar: Ruggnar is a platformer without enemies, but many traps are hidden in the darkness. Help Ruggnar explore gloomy places with his bag and a few candles as his sole equipment.
Players who liked Ruggnar also play
Steam players who put hours into Ruggnar also tend to own these titles — a signal called collaborative filtering. imho.run cross-references millions of library ownership patterns to surface games whose real audiences overlap, regardless of whether their genre tags match.
Dwarf Journey
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruggnar.
Top pick for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Dwarf Journey is an action roguelite platformer with randomly generated levels. Defeat enemies, level up, assemble your rune build and collect minerals to forge better equipment on an epic journey in search of immortality.
Kalinur
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Ruggnar.
Second-strongest match for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Ruggnar.
Defeat the mage Kalinur and bring peace back to the kingdom in this mini metroidvania with a lot of action.
Project Delta
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Explore all possible realities as you try and save the universe from the Darkness in this unique Procedurally Designed Mega Metroidvania Adventure.
Para-Lax
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Para-Lax is a 2D platformer in which you play as a hero named Lax and help a farmer get back his stolen dirt! Wander through a beautiful Pixel-World, avoid the traps and kill as much goblins as you can.
Below the Stone
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Below the Stone is an extraction roguelike about dwarves on the quest for the deepest depths. A place where each and every descent will lead to new adventures -- and where only the most determined dwarves with many lost lives will be rewarded by the hidden world lying below the stone.
Skilltree Saga
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Skilltree Saga is the first Rogue-like RPG set in Aventuria - the world of The Dark Eye. Choose to play as human, elf or dwarf and battle randomly generated opponents in over 100 stages, developing a set of magical, enhanceable skills.
BORE BLASTERS
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ruggnar.
Ranked #8 for Ruggnar fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ruggnar at current Steam store prices.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~64% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ruggnar.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
R.E.P.O.
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ruggnar.
An online co-op horror game with up to 6 players. Locate valuable, fully physics-based objects and handle them with care as you retrieve and extract to satisfy your creator's desires.
PEAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
PEAK is a co-op climbing game where the slightest mistake can spell your doom. Either solo or as a group of lost nature scouts, your only hope of rescue from a mysterious island is to scale the mountain at its center. Do you have what it takes to reach the PEAK?
Titanfall® 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~68% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ruggnar.
Respawn Entertainment gives you the most advanced titan technology in its new, single player campaign & multiplayer experience. Combine & conquer with new titans & pilots, deadlier weapons, & customization and progression systems that help you and your titan flow as one unstoppable killing force.
Inscryption
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Ruggnar.
Inscryption is an inky black card-based odyssey that blends the deckbuilding roguelike, escape-room style puzzles, and psychological horror into a blood-laced smoothie. Darker still are the secrets inscrybed upon the cards...
Noita
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Noita is a magical action roguelite set in a world where every pixel is physically simulated. Fight, explore, melt, burn, freeze and evaporate your way through the procedurally generated world using spells you've created yourself.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~93% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?
Buckshot Roulette
WHY THIS
Priced ~79% under Ruggnar on Steam right now. Shares Action with Ruggnar.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Ruggnar.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
Bongo Cat
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Bongo cat needs your help. Bongo cat needz more hatz!!! Every time you press a key, Bongo cat will punch your taskbar. Type, click, play, work to collect more points. Which hats will you find?
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Ruggnar.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
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Head-to-head comparisons
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Dwarf Journey
WHY THIS
Shares a whimsical mood with Ruggnar.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Dwarf Journey is an action roguelite platformer with randomly generated levels. Defeat enemies, level up, assemble your rune build and collect minerals to forge better equipment on an epic journey in search of immortality.
BORE BLASTERS
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Blast through rocks with your machine gun drill. Collect rare gems, ores and ancient artefacts, upgrade your ship and unlock new abilities. Uncover the mysteries of the deep and the dangers that lurk below.
Caveblazers
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Ruggnar.
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Ruggnar.
Caveblazers is a challenging and brutal roguelike platformer. Journey into a mysterious cave, fighting orcs and goblins with an abundance of weapons and magical items! Make friends along the way, then watch in despair as they are crushed in to a bloody pulp under a troll's fist.
Frequently asked about Ruggnar
- Is Ruggnar verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — Ruggnar is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does Ruggnar cost?
- Ruggnar is listed on Steam at 13.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ruggnar?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ruggnar are Dwarf Journey, Kalinur, Project Delta.
- Who developed Ruggnar?
- Ruggnar was developed by Sword N' Wands and published by PID Games, Dear Villagers.
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