Games like The Ruins: VR Escape the Room
If The Ruins: VR Escape the Room is your kind of game, the closest matches are The Cabin: VR Escape the Room, Haunting Hour and TIMESCAPE: Altitude — 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: VR Escape the Room: As an archaeologist following in the footsteps of your grandfather, you find yourself trapped in an arcane site. Uncover artifacts and solve ancient puzzles to fulfill your legacy. There's a great secret held here; what will you discover?
Players who liked The Ruins: VR Escape the Room also play
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The Cabin: VR Escape the Room
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Top pick for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
The Cabin: VR Escape the Room will have you crawling through rafters as you search high and low for clues and objects that'll help you escape. Unravel the mystery of this lonely desolate cabin. You're stuck here, all alone - or are you?
Haunting Hour
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Second-strongest match for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Cooperate in this Cross-platform Multiplayer Virtual Reality Escape Room to escape the Witch’s Castle. Pit your wits against twisted puzzles and crazy challenges as you and your fellow imprisoned ghosts race against time. There's only an hour until the Haunting Hour begins, will you make it out?
TIMESCAPE: Altitude
WHY THIS
Third-strongest match for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
The pilots are gone, You are locked to a seat, and have been left to die on a plane. Best to get out, as quickly as possible. Solve a series of puzzles to escape and jump to safety. You will need all your wits on this mission.
The Gleam: VR Escape the Room
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Ranked #4 for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
The Gleam is an escape the room game for the HTC Vive. Solve puzzles, decipher code, and unravel the mysteries of the "gleam" in order to escape from this claustrophobic hell.
The Atlas Mystery: A VR Puzzle Game
WHY THIS
Ranked #5 for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Explore the haunted halls of the infamous Atlas Theater, a 1940’s era movie palace that played host to a shocking Hollywood tragedy. Solve intricate puzzles, discover startling artifacts, and evade sinister forces to uncover the twisted truth behind the theater’s dark history.
Trial of the Gods
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Ranked #6 for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Challenge your wits, test your mettle, prove you are worthy of a second chance by completing the riddles and puzzles of the Egyptian Gods! Escape from the ancient Egyptian tomb or seal your fate forever!
Belko VR: An Escape Room Experiment
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Ranked #7 for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Exploring the themes in THE BELKO EXPERIMENT, the Belko VR – Escape Room Experiment provokes the question: “What does it take to survive at work?” Players are prompted to solve a series of challenging puzzles in order to escape from their office before a microchip in their head explodes.
Nevrosa: Escape
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Ranked #8 for The Ruins: VR Escape the Room fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Nevrosa is an escape room game with horror and action elements, where you are trying to find your way out of laboratory through solving puzzles while being locked in with a strange creature. Mystical machines, old family curse and various endings depending on your ways of play.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Ruins: VR Escape the Room at current Steam store prices.
POSTAL 2
WHY THIS
Priced ~75% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
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?
The Test
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Priced ~50% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
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 ~63% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
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 ~75% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
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.
shapez
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Priced ~75% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
shapez is an easy-going, minimalistic factory building game about the automation of shapes through extraction and satisfying production lines. Adapt to increasingly complex shapes and grow your factory across an infinitely expanding map. Your only limitation is your creativity!
The Test: Hypothesis Rising
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Priced ~50% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
The second chapter in The Test trilogy. Answer a series of in-depth questions to reveal hidden truths about yourself and unlock secrets to discover how your life can change drastically with just a few, slight modifications. ...But are you sure you want the answers you seek?
The NOexistenceN of you AND me
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Priced ~50% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Use "game" as a medium to showcase the world of "you/girl". Explore the truth of "you/girl/world" through the form of a "visual novel".
Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad
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Priced ~75% under The Ruins: VR Escape the Room on Steam right now. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
"Shower With Your Dad Simulator 2015: Do You Still Shower With Your Dad?" is a fast paced shower-simulation where you shower with your 8-bit dad.It's good, clean fun!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
The Lab
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it.
Welcome to The Lab, a compilation of Valve’s room-scale VR experiments set in a pocket universe within Aperture Science. Fix a robot, defend a castle, adopt a mechanical dog, and more. Still not sold? It’s free!
Epic Battle Fantasy 3
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Epic Battle Fantasy 3 is a silly turn-based JRPG, full of useless NPCs, rabid cats, childish humor, unreasonably large weapons, anime boobs, and other nonsense. And it's totally free!
The Riftbreaker: Prologue
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
The Riftbreaker: Prologue allows you to experience the events taking place before the story campaign of the main game. Explore an entirely new world. Gather resources. Build up a base. Defend yourself from thousands of alien creatures.
SCP: Secret Laboratory
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Deep within a secure underground facility, a sudden containment breach allows many of the secured anomalies to escape from their chambers. Assist the Foundation in re-securing the facility, help the Insurgency in their goal to capture it, or wreak havoc as an SCP in a frantic bid to escape.
Clicker Heroes
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Click your way through hordes of monsters, earn gold, and recruit quirky heroes with powerful skills. Progress even while you're idle, and watch the numbers climb into the absurd. It’s a never-ending journey of clicks, crits, and colossal damage.
Bloons TD Battles
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Go head to head with other players in a Bloon-popping battle for victory. From the creators of best-selling Bloons TD 5, this all new Battles game is specially designed for multiplayer combat, featuring the ability to control bloons directly and send them charging past your opponent's defenses.
One-armed robber
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
One-armed robber is a chaotic first-person heist game that centers around a uniquely challenging premise. Players take the role of a determined robber equipped with only one arm, tasked with pulling off daring heists on banks, shops, and various establishments.
Blackwake
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Blackwake is a multiplayer naval FPS focused on teamwork and cooperation. Fire the cannons, sink enemy ships or board them with firearms and steel.
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More from Blue Entropy Studios
Other recommendable Steam games by Blue Entropy Studios, ranked by review count so the studio's hits land first.
Reaching for Petals
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Entropy Studios, the studio behind The Ruins: VR Escape the Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Reaching for Petals is a poetic adventure about love, loss, and ambition. You will travel to the peak of the ever-reaching mountain to uncover the true nature of your mysterious and seemingly unguided journey.
The Cabin: VR Escape the Room
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Entropy Studios, the studio behind The Ruins: VR Escape the Room. Shares Action and Strategy with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
The Cabin: VR Escape the Room will have you crawling through rafters as you search high and low for clues and objects that'll help you escape. Unravel the mystery of this lonely desolate cabin. You're stuck here, all alone - or are you?
Reaching for Petals: VR Edition
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Entropy Studios, the studio behind The Ruins: VR Escape the Room. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Rebuilt for VR, Reaching for Petals is a poetic adventure about love, loss, and ambition. You will travel to the peak of the ever-reaching mountain to uncover the true nature of your mysterious and seemingly unguided journey.
Submerged: VR Escape the Room
WHY THIS
Another title from Blue Entropy Studios, the studio behind The Ruins: VR Escape the Room. Shares Strategy and Indie with The Ruins: VR Escape the Room.
Trapped inside a room filling with water, you will decipher secrets and tools to aid your escape. Hold your breath and dive for answers within a submarine deep below the ocean.
Frequently asked about The Ruins: VR Escape the Room
- How much does The Ruins: VR Escape the Room cost?
- The Ruins: VR Escape the Room is listed on Steam at 3.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Ruins: VR Escape the Room?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Ruins: VR Escape the Room are The Cabin: VR Escape the Room, Haunting Hour, TIMESCAPE: Altitude.
- Who developed The Ruins: VR Escape the Room?
- The Ruins: VR Escape the Room was developed by Blue Entropy Studios.
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