Games like Ruina
If Ruina is your kind of game, the closest matches are Kill The Nova, Abyss Forge and rook — 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 Ruina: Match radiant gems, empower scrolls, and wield enchanted tools in this rogue-lite match-3 game. Customize your bag, purchase relics and charms, and choose boons to shape each run. Every match is a step toward mastery!
Players who liked Ruina also play
Steam players who put hours into Ruina 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.
Kill The Nova
WHY THIS
Top pick for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
Classic puzzle meets roguelike deck-building! Collect a variety of unique pieces, build powerful synergies, and unleash overwhelmingly inflated scores through explosive “multipliers.” Smash impossible numbers straight into your enemies and beat up the final boss—the developer himself!
Abyss Forge
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
Abyss Forge is a sci-fi match-and-merge roguelike set in deep space. Move tiles, create matches, merge modules, gather fuel, efficiency, research, and other resources, then shape your build through random upgrades as you push your ship deeper into unknown sectors.
rook
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Casual with Ruina.
rook is a chess deckbuilding roguelike. cover your board in stickers and stack spare tiles to supercharge the cascading chaos and watch your scores go exponential, maybe then you might just survive the gauntlet.
The Loopler
WHY THIS
Ranked #4 for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
The Loopler is a idle-like roguelite simulation of a car driving in loops. Pick upgrades, place gates and sit back and relax as the mesmerizing loop gets going and the dopamine hits of numbers going up fills your brain. See if you can go endless and beyond.
Puzzlogue
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ruina.
A roguelike match-3 puzzle game where you continuously swap gems to build combos and use relic effects to boost your score. Create a different build each run and clear each stage.
IndieSteam ↗Orblins
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
Orblins is a Marble-Matching Roguelike inspired by classic marble shooters like Zuma and Luxor. Create game-breaking builds with endless marbles and upgrades to defeat a host of Orblins and bosses. Choose from a large cast of characters or create your own custom class to personalize your run.
Greedcurse
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for Ruina fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie with Ruina.
A roguelike slot machine game where you choose your bet, spin the reels, and craft and enhance powerful cards and symbols to create game-breaking combos and unstoppable wins.
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Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Ruina at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
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!
Cookie Clicker
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
An idle game about making cookies! Originally released in 2013 on the web, and actively developed since then. This is the official version for Steam.
WEBFISHING
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
WEBFISHING a multiplayer chatroom-focused fishing game! Relax and fish (on the web!)
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~90% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ruina.
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 ~70% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ruina.
Play Russian roulette with a 12-gauge shotgun. Four enter. One leaves. Roll the dice with your life. Good luck!
Brotato
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
Brotato is a top-down arena shooter roguelite where you play a potato wielding up to 6 weapons at a time to fight off hordes of aliens. Choose from a variety of traits and items to create unique builds and survive until help arrives.
Your Only Move Is HUSTLE
WHY THIS
Priced ~50% under Ruina on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Ruina.
Master your technique, execute flashy combos, and outsmart opponents across the world, frame-by-frame. Slow down the clock to fine-tune your fighting style in this innovative, turn-based combat simulator. Pulverize your friends and choreograph spectacular fight scenes. No training mode required.
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. Shares Indie with Ruina.
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?
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ruina.
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.
Sheepy: A Short Adventure
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
A Short Handcrafted Pixel Art Platformer that follows Sheepy, an abandoned plushy brought to life. Sheepy: A Short Adventure is the first short game from MrSuicideSheep.
Our Life: Beginnings & Always
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
A twenty-dollar bill, four summers, fifteen years, and a one of a kind life. Create an experience that’s all your own in this near-fully customizable visual novel where you grow from childhood to adulthood with the lonely boy next door.
Travellin Cats in Paris
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
Find 100 cats hidden in Paris, France in this cute hand-drawn hidden object game by Travellin Cats - the original viral hidden cat game creator!
Grimm's Hollow
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Ruina.
A spooky, freeware RPG where you search the afterlife for your brother. Reap ghosts with your scythe, explore haunted caves, and eat ghostly treats on your journey through death.
Virtual Cottage
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Casual with Ruina.
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.
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Frequently asked about Ruina
- How much does Ruina cost?
- Ruina is listed on Steam at 9.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Ruina?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Ruina are Kill The Nova, Abyss Forge, rook.
- Who developed Ruina?
- Ruina was developed by Broken Down Software.
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 Ruina.
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