Games like Princess Ruby
If Princess Ruby is your kind of game, the closest matches are Rescue: The Beagles, Ultimate Classic Car Racing 2 and Unsung Escape — picked from the ranked list below. 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 Princess Ruby: Princess Ruby is a 2D Platformer aimed at young children. Play as a princess and run, jump and sometimes ride a unicorn through each level. Dress up how you want, change your hairstyle and the colors of your costume.
Players who liked Princess Ruby also play
Steam players who put hours into Princess Ruby 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.
Rescue: The Beagles
WHY THIS
Top pick for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
A challenging retro arcade platformer/runner with unique parallax based gameplay. Rescue adorable doggies from an evil biohazard brigade in an intense, fast paced parkour through colorful procedurally generated levels.
Ultimate Classic Car Racing 2
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries.
A fast-paced local multiplayer party racing game for up to 8 players, featuring chaotic battles, multiple game modes, and responsive car controls.
Unsung Escape
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
Unsung Escape is a vertical action-platformer where you outrun an ever-rising Void. Use Energy Orbs to gain movement abilities like double-jumps and dashes. No enemies—just pure platforming, exploration, and survival.
Toodee and Topdee
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
A cosmic turbulence caused the 2D Platformer and the Top-Down Puzzler dimensions to merge! Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives to overcome hard-as-nails challenges, solve mind-melting puzzles and defeat huge bosses.
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
KLONOA is a 3D side-scrolling action game series whose first title was released by Namco in 1997. Set in a unique universe populated by a range of original characters, the game follows the hero, Klonoa, as he sets off on a journey to save the world.
Rad Rodgers - Radical Edition
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
Bringing back the 90's-era PC platformer with a game inspired by classics like Commander Keen, Conker, Ruff'n'Tumble & Jazz Jackrabbit.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Princess Ruby fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Princess Ruby at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~86% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
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 ~57% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
GRIS
WHY THIS
Priced ~46% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Princess Ruby.
Gris is a hopeful young girl lost in her own world, dealing with a painful experience in her life. Her journey through sorrow is manifested in her dress, which grants new abilities to better navigate her faded reality.
The Test
WHY THIS
Priced ~72% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Princess Ruby.
You will answer a series of questions that will reveal truths from deep within. These questions may make you uncomfortable, but with great knowledge comes great sacrifice. Can you make it all the way through The Test, and if you do, are you sure you want the answers you seek?
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk
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Priced ~79% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Princess Ruby.
A short story about what sort of challenges everyday little things can be. Help the girl buy milk, be the first not to disappoint her.
Blood and Bacon
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Priced ~86% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.
Crypt of the NecroDancer
WHY THIS
Priced ~57% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
Crypt of the NecroDancer is an award winning hardcore roguelike rhythm game. Move to the music and deliver beatdowns to the beat! Groove to the epic Danny Baranowsky soundtrack, or select songs from your own MP3 collection!
A Short Hike
WHY THIS
Priced ~43% under Princess Ruby on Steam right now. Shares Adventure with Princess Ruby.
Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
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 Princess Ruby.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Virtual Cottage gives you a comfy place to rest and be productive without any distractions. Open the game, set yourself a goal and enjoy the atmosphere.
The Expendabros
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
UNBEATABLE [white label]
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
A young girl learns a song. An exclusive side-story set in the world of D-CELL GAMES' upcoming rhythm-adventure.
Eternal Senia
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
Thoughts and expectations ARPG
An Arcade Full of Cats
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Journey through gaming history's time and space, while searching for adorable feline companions in 'An Arcade Full of Cats,' the ultimate pet'em up hidden object game.
Cinderella Phenomenon - Otome/Visual Novel
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
The Fairytale Curse was only the beginning...
![UNBEATABLE [white label] — Steam game cover](https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/1290490/header.jpg?t=1736770503)
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Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Toodee and Topdee
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
A cosmic turbulence caused the 2D Platformer and the Top-Down Puzzler dimensions to merge! Switch between Toodee and Topdee and their unique perspectives to overcome hard-as-nails challenges, solve mind-melting puzzles and defeat huge bosses.
Ghosts 'n Goblins Resurrection
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action with Princess Ruby.
Watch as this nostalgic yet completely reimagined storybook world unravels before your very eyes. Taking cues from both Ghosts 'n Goblins and Ghouls 'n Ghosts and giving birth to something entirely new, Resurrection is a title worthy of its name.
Klonoa Phantasy Reverie Series
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
KLONOA is a 3D side-scrolling action game series whose first title was released by Namco in 1997. Set in a unique universe populated by a range of original characters, the game follows the hero, Klonoa, as he sets off on a journey to save the world.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Adventure with Princess Ruby.
Shovel Knight: Treasure Trove is the complete Shovel Knight collection, containing all 5 games in the epic saga! Dig, blast, slash, and bash your way through a fantastical, 8-bit inspired world of pixel-perfect platforming, memorable characters, and world-class action-adventure gameplay.
Frequently asked about Princess Ruby
- How much does Princess Ruby cost?
- Princess Ruby is listed on Steam at 6.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- Does Princess Ruby have multiplayer or co-op?
- Yes — Princess Ruby supports multi-player play according to its Steam store listing (Multi-player, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, Co-op).
- What games are most similar to Princess Ruby?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Princess Ruby are Rescue: The Beagles, Ultimate Classic Car Racing 2, Unsung Escape.
- Who developed Princess Ruby?
- Princess Ruby was developed by Creative Distractions.
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