Games like The Ruins
If The Ruins is your kind of game, the closest matches are Among Ashes, Visage and Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition — 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 The Ruins: You've found yourself alone in the darkness lost and afraid. There are boobie traps and human remains all around you, echoing through the ruins you hear scuttling and grunts from a creature you've never heard before. The only way out is to travel deeper into the maze and hope it doesn't hear you
Players who liked The Ruins also play
Steam players who put hours into The Ruins 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.
Among Ashes
WHY THIS
Top pick for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
Visage
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Visage is a first-person psychological horror game. Explore a mysterious ever-changing house in a slow-paced, atmospheric world that combines both uncannily comforting and horrifyingly realistic environments, and enjoy a genuinely terrifying experience.
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
File Destined
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Can this last case of Oliver, all be just a small part of a bigger picture? Gather clues, unravel the mystery behind the case and uncover the truth.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Amnesia: The Dark Descent, a first person survival horror. A game about immersion, discovery and living through a nightmare. An experience that will chill you to the core.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
The Maid
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
The Maid is a first-person psychological horror and mystery game that focuses on creating fear and tension in the player.
Malum
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for The Ruins fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Malum is the premier C-list horror game. Run from a motely collection of bizarre demons then summon in some guns to turn the tables on them. Best enjoyed with friends.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ruins at current Steam store prices.
Miss Neko
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Ruins on Steam right now. Shares Action with The Ruins.
Together the full picture of all the lovely beast ladies with your own hands, play Yakyuken with them, collect their portraits. Hope you have a relaxing and enjoyable game time:)
QUICKERFLAK
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Ruins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
QUICKERFLAK is an experimental fast-paced time-attack top-down combat retro-hardcore minigame, that can be finished in a minute.
Save Jesus
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Ruins on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Ruins.
Someone is trying to murder Jesus. Disguised as Caesar with the Roman Empire by his side, an evil impostor from the future has set hundreds of deadly traps. Redirect the traps, kill the Romans and protect Jesus!
Gachi Heroes
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Ruins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Gachi Heroes is a game about the dark fantasies. That's amazing an endlass journey in which you will know yourself with your favorite gachimuchi characters. How deep would you go?
Trip to Vinelands
WHY THIS
Priced ~51% under The Ruins on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Trip to Vinelands is an arcade retro hardcore maze wanderer minigame.
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Ruins.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
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 The Ruins.
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 and Indie with The Ruins.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins.
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. Shares Indie with The Ruins.
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 Indie with The Ruins.
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.
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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.
Among Ashes
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Among Ashes is a terrifying first-person survival horror game. Your friend has sent you a link to a game that someone posted online, but as you play you quickly realise that something is terribly wrong. Whatever you do… K̴͉͚̗̅̃̄E̷͓̤̺̊͠E̴̤̰̿̽P̴̠̳̀́ ̴̨̮̭̕̚P̷̠͇̳͐̓̀L̶̹̔Ả̷̧Y̵̘̺͆̓Ï̸̻̏͂N̷͙̯͊G̵͖̹̠̽̿
Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
Among the Sleep: Enhanced Edition is a new and improved version of the award winning first person horror adventure. In the game you play as a small child trapped in a weird nightmare where you go looking for your mom.
SOMA
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins.
From the creators of Amnesia: The Dark Descent comes SOMA, a sci-fi horror game set below the waves of the Atlantic ocean. Struggle to survive a hostile world that will make you question your very existence.
Frequently asked about The Ruins
- How much does The Ruins cost?
- The Ruins is listed on Steam at 0.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ruins?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ruins are Among Ashes, Visage, Among the Sleep - Enhanced Edition.
- Who developed The Ruins?
- The Ruins was developed by CBAZ Games.
imho.run ranks Steam game alternatives using a mix of collaborative filtering (ALS / iALS / EASE / LightGCN), content scoring over genres, categories, Steam tags, developers, and publishers, plus AI-extracted vibes mined from review text. The page above is generated in seed mode anchored on The Ruins.
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