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Lost Ruins
Lost Ruins is a 2D side-scrolling survival action game, where you play as a young girl that has awoken in a strange and foreign place without her memories. Explore a dark and dangerous world, battle hideous monsters, and topple incredible bosses.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-29 · quoted reviews as of 2026-10-15.
“Lost Ruins is a bit of a mold-breaker. It's a metroidvania, but it's not at all about fluid movement or interconnected backtracks or rpg-style progression. It's slow and weighty. Your hitpoints melt in just a few attacks. You have no i-frames on hit, and can get juggled by…”
— a player, Steam review · 7 hrs played“Having passed the point where I can refund this game, I can safely say this game is a gem. Yes, there's a lot of cute girls. Hell, one of the bosses is a giant slime girl in an area partially inhabited by normal sized slime girls. But push all that aside for a second and just…”
— a player, Steam review · 5 hrs played“A challenging Metroidvania for gamers who like a challenge combined with some RPG details, from the trailer you will not be able to deduce to what extent the difficulties of the game can be and this is good because you can also notice from the trailer that it is a user-friendly…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live data self-collected from the Steam API · history through 2026-06 via SteamCharts.
Achievement stats
Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-10-20.
Price tracking
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Latest official news
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1.0.9a Patch Notes
Hi everyone. We have a few minor fixes in 1.0.9a, -1.0.9a Patch Notes- - Added quest start/complete/failure display UI - Fixed a bug where beam attacks were blocked by shield - Fixed item descriptions
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie |
| Player tags | Anime · Pixel Graphics · Metroidvania · Action · Cute · Platformer · Adventure · 2D · Hack and Slash · Survival · Sexual Content · Dark (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Full controller support · Steam Cloud · Remote Play on Phone · Remote Play on Tablet · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English, French, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Spanish - Latin America |
| Controller | Full support |
| Achievements | 40 |
| Official site | https://lostruins.dangenentertainment.com/ |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: OS *: Windows 7 Processor: 1.6 GHz Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: 512MB DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 600 MB available space