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Dragon Ruins
A dungeon crawling microgame for tired people.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-04 · quoted reviews as of 2026-05-14.
“A simples dungeon crawler that gets a lot of inspiration from the more old school dungeon crawlers, which makes this game a great entry point for those kind of games. The combat is like an idle game, so I cannot consider it a RPG, you defeat enemies automatically and upgrade…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Short, simple, strangely compelling. It's mostly an "imagination game", i.e. one which needs a good imagination to enjoy, but it has a lot that helps get the imagination stirring. The wireframe corridors with faces of black void, eerie music and ambient tracks and iconic…”
— a player, Steam review · 2 hrs played“Ate the game in 1 sitting. Games like this make you realize you aren't really tired, just longing for a good, simple game in the genre.”
— a player, Steam review · 6 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2025-09 via SteamCharts.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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Update 2.0 Released
Added Remix mode. This mode features a dungeon from the original jam version with minor adjustments and a different final boss. Added 4 new enemy types to spice up the exploration. Added 4 new player
Announcement of Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath
https://clan.fastly.steamstatic.com/images/33855917/523548e115f78d4873c99631288effcc549838b0.png We're excited to announce Dragon Ruins II: Aftermath, a standalone expansion for Dragon Ruins II. Since
2024 in Review and Future Plans
Hi everyone, 2024 was a transformative year for the studio, as we finally achieved relative stability and adequate resources to expand the scope of our projects and develop them at a healthy pace. Tha
QUESTER + Dragon Ruins Bundle Available!
Hello, fellow adventurers! We are happy to announce that we've entered a cross-promotional collaboration with Thousand Games. Now you can complete the QUESTER + Dragon Ruins set with an additional dis
Update Notes for September 5
Adjusted monster data Fixed resource usage if VSync was force-disabled via driver settings Fixed a minor text overflow issue
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.
| Genres | Casual, RPG |
| Player tags | Casual · RPG · Dungeon Crawler · Arcade · Auto Battler · Party-Based RPG · Exploration · 3D · First-Person · Hack and Slash · Dark Fantasy · Retro (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Partial Controller Support · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, Ukrainian, Japanese |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS: Windows 10 Processor: Intel Core i3-380M Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+ capable GPU Storage: 200 MB available space