Games like From Ruins – A Detective Adventure
If From Ruins – A Detective Adventure is your kind of game, the closest matches are Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure, BROK the InvestiGator and Duck Detective: The Secret Salami — 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 From Ruins – A Detective Adventure: A new-gen detective adventure combining deduction gameplay with a gripping story full of twists and turns. Gather clues, establish connections, and solve a series of increasingly challenging cases. Will you uncover the feud that began at the end of the world?
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Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
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Top pick for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
BROK the InvestiGator
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping
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Ranked #4 for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
You are the one and only Duck Detective, a depressed and recently divorced duck who must quack the case. Inspect evidence, make de-duck-tions, and solve this no-murder mystery!
The Roottrees are Dead
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Ranked #5 for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
A genealogical mystery straight out of 1998. Scour the early Internet for clues, uncover hidden connections, and piece together the family tree behind the secretive Roottree Corporation.
TR-49
WHY THIS
Ranked #6 for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Telling Lies
WHY THIS
Ranked #7 for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Four private lives. One big lie. Search through secretly recorded video conversations to discover the truth. The successor to the acclaimed Her Story.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Ranked #8 for From Ruins – A Detective Adventure fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
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Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
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.
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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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!
The Looker
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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.
A Date with Death
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Fight against & romance the one hunting for your soul in A Date with Death, a romance chat simulator where you date(?) the Grim Reaper himself. Create your own character, decorate your apartment, and chat away with the charming yet dangerous Grim Reaper through text and video calls.
Travellin Cats in Paris
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
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 Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
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.
The Expendabros
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
The Expendabros have assembled and set their sights on the forces of ruthless arms dealer Conrad Stonebanks in the forests of Eastern Europe.
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Other recommendable Steam games by DigiTales Interactive, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Lacuna – A Sci-Fi Noir Adventure
WHY THIS
Another title from DigiTales Interactive, the studio behind From Ruins – A Detective Adventure. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
A murder. A hack. A bombing. All it takes to plunge the solar system into war – unless you do something about it. Help CDI agent Neil Conrad make a string of increasingly difficult decisions in this modern dialog-driven adventure set in a gorgeous 2D sci-fi noir universe.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Another title from DigiTales Interactive, the studio behind From Ruins – A Detective Adventure. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
Lacuna: Prologue
WHY THIS
Another title from DigiTales Interactive, the studio behind From Ruins – A Detective Adventure. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Lacuna: Prologue tasks you – CDI agent Neil Conrad – with investigating the murder of a high-profile victim whose death could plunge the solar system into war. Solve the first in a series of cases that lead you ever deeper into the conspiracy at the core of this captivating 2D sci-fi noir adventure.
Plays great on Steam Deck
Valve-Verified or Playable picks from the similar pool — ready to go on Deck out of the box.
Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Between Horizons is a narrative 2.5D sci-fi detective adventure. 33 years into the Zephyr's journey, its mission is suddenly jeopardized. Can you find the culprit before it's too late? Experience an enthralling story set in a semi-open world that branches and ends based on your choices.
BROK the InvestiGator
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
An innovative adventure mixed with beat 'em up and RPG elements. In a grim world where animals have replaced mankind, what kind of detective will you be?
Duck Detective: The Secret Salami
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Solving crime is no walk in the pond. You are a down-on-his-luck detective who also happens to be a duck. Use your powers of de-duck-tion to inspect evidence, fill in the blanks, and bust the case wide open! This is a short but twisty detective case.
TR-49
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
A World War II computer. An archive of lost books. A world-changing secret. Narrative deduction meets audio drama, from the creators of Overboard!, Heaven's Vault and A Highland Song.
Pentiment
WHY THIS
Deck Verified — runs on Steam Deck out of the box. Shares Adventure with From Ruins – A Detective Adventure.
Step into a living illustrated world in a time when Europe is at a crossroads of great religious and political change. Walk in the footsteps of Andreas Maler, a master artist who finds himself in the middle of murders, scandals, and intrigue in the Bavarian Alps.
Frequently asked about From Ruins – A Detective Adventure
- What games are most similar to From Ruins – A Detective Adventure?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside From Ruins – A Detective Adventure are Between Horizons – A Sci-Fi Detective Adventure, BROK the InvestiGator, Duck Detective: The Secret Salami.
- Who developed From Ruins – A Detective Adventure?
- From Ruins – A Detective Adventure was developed by DigiTales Interactive.
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