Games like Avernum 3: Ruined World
If Avernum 3: Ruined World is your kind of game, the closest matches are Avernum 2: Crystal Souls, Avadon 2: The Corruption and Avernum: Escape From the Pit — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its atmospheric, contemplative and immersive. 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 Avernum 3: Ruined World: Wander free through this epic, indie fantasy adventure. Explore a huge world that evolves as time passes. Towns fight battles. Refugees flee. Disasters happen. Features cunning adventures, great depth, and unlimited freedom. Be a merchant or bounty hunter, buy a home, save the world!
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Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
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Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Top pick for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.
Avadon 2: The Corruption
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Second-strongest match for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avadon 2: The Corruption is a huge, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the second chapter in the epic Avadon trilogy. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law.
Avernum: Escape From the Pit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Third-strongest match for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
Avadon 3: The Warborn
WHY THIS
Shares a contemplative mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Ranked #4 for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Huge, old-school, indie fantasy role-playing adventure. Features an epic story and tactical, turn-based combat. Explore cunning dungeons, hunt for 100s of magical artifacts, and use dozens of magical abilities. Many different endings. Will you save your people or betray them? It's up to you.
Avadon: The Black Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Ranked #5 for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Use your power to crush a growing rebellion! (Or join it.)
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Ranked #6 for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
Queen's Wish 2: The Tormentor
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Ranked #7 for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
You are in a barbarian land. They are trying to kill you. The Queen demands you tame them. So what now? Escape into an exciting, open-ended story and cunning tactical combat. Epic, indie fantasy adventure. Freely explore a huge world, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose.
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Ranked #8 for Avernum 3: Ruined World fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.
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Avernum 4
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Shares character customization and an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Reviewers of Avernum 3: Ruined World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avernum 4 is the first chapter in the Great Trials Trilogy, three games that tell the tale of your land’s struggles in the face of powerful forces that seek to destroy it.
Avernum: Escape From the Pit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Reviewers of Avernum 3: Ruined World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
Nethergate: Resurrection
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Reviewers of Avernum 3: Ruined World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Spiderweb Software's classic adventure of treachery and battle in ancient times has returned! Travel back to ancient Britannia for a tale of cunning foes, vicious battles, and a race to rediscover the lost secrets of magic. Britannia is a land ravaged by war.
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Reviewers of Avernum 3: Ruined World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.
SKALD: Against the Black Priory
WHY THIS
Shares character customization and an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Reviewers of Avernum 3: Ruined World cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
SKALD:Against the Black Priory is a retro-style party-based RPG set in a grim-dark fantasy world of tragic heroes, violent deaths and Lovecraftian horror. Take a chance and roll the dice as you embark on a compelling story filled with deadly creatures, branching story and tactical, turn-based combat
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Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below Avernum 3: Ruined World at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~75% under Avernum 3: Ruined World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
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.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~50% under Avernum 3: Ruined World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~50% under Avernum 3: Ruined World on Steam right now. Shares Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~50% under Avernum 3: Ruined World on Steam right now. Shares RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
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Priced ~75% under Avernum 3: Ruined World on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
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!
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Doki Doki Literature Club!
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
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
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
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. Shares Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
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.
NGU IDLE
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
NGU Idle is a Free To Play Idle game that's full of weird humor, tons of upgrades and hundreds of hours of content! Try out NGU Idle today and experience the joy of Numbers Going Up!
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Avernum: Escape From the Pit
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avernum is a land underground, a subterranean nation full of rogues, misfits, and brigands, struggling for survival in the monster-infested darkness. Hunt for glory, treasure, and justice in the underworld. Fight for survival, freedom, and even vengeance in the epic indie cult-classic.
Avadon: The Black Fortress
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Indie and RPG with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avadon: The Black Fortress is an epic, Indie fantasy role-playing saga. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law. Use your power to crush a growing rebellion! (Or join it.)
Geneforge 1 - Mutagen
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Unique, truly open-ended fantasy adventure in a strange, new world. Use battle or cunning to change the world, served by your own army of custom-made mutant monsters. Over 80 zones to explore and 50+ hours of gameplay. Multitudes of skills, abilities, factions, treasures, and servants to create.
Geneforge 1
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Geneforge is an Indie fantasy role-playing game, the first game in the five-part Geneforge Saga. It features an enormous world, the ability to create your own army of lethal, totally obedient creatures, and a cunning enemy AI with foes who can go on patrols, stalk you, and run for help. Geneforge has a huge and open storyline.
Queen's Wish: The Conqueror
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
At last, the Queen has given you power and freedom! The cost? You must rebuild her Empire. Will you? In this epic, indie fantasy adventure, you are free to explore, fight for fame and power, and shape the world as you choose. Escape into an unpredictable open-ended story and cunning tactical combat.
Avernum 2: Crystal Souls
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Huge indie fantasy role-playing adventure in a massive, underground land. Packed with over 100 towns and dungeons and an epic story. Fight to complete up to three distinct game-winning quests. Master over 60 spells and abilities. Hunt for hundreds of magical artifacts. Over 50 hours of gameplay.
Avadon 2: The Corruption
WHY THIS
Shares an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Avadon 2: The Corruption is a huge, indie fantasy role-playing adventure, the second chapter in the epic Avadon trilogy. You will serve the keep of Avadon, working as a spy and warrior to fight the enemies of your homeland. As a servant of the Black Fortress, your word is law.
Avernum 4: Greed and Glory
WHY THIS
Shares faction politics and an atmospheric mood with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
Another title from Spiderweb Software, the studio behind Avernum 3: Ruined World. Shares Strategy and Indie with Avernum 3: Ruined World.
The cult-classic saga is back! Battle for fame, power, and wealth in the subterranean nation of Avernum. Conquer an enormous underworld in this epic turn-based fantasy RPG. Features huge, clever dungeons, varied and cunning foes, 100s of artifacts to find or craft, and a really cool story.
Frequently asked about Avernum 3: Ruined World
- Does Avernum 3: Ruined World run on Steam Deck?
- Avernum 3: Ruined World is rated Playable on Steam Deck — it runs, but expect some manual adjustments (control remapping, text size, or graphics settings) for the best experience.
- How much does Avernum 3: Ruined World cost?
- Avernum 3: Ruined World is listed on Steam at 19.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to Avernum 3: Ruined World?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside Avernum 3: Ruined World are Avernum 2: Crystal Souls, Avadon 2: The Corruption, Avernum: Escape From the Pit.
- Who developed Avernum 3: Ruined World?
- Avernum 3: Ruined World was developed by Spiderweb Software.
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