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Ruzar - The Life Stone

Ruzar - The Life Stone

Ruzar - The Life Stone is a dungeon crawler RPG game in which you play an adventurer who needs to discover the powerful Life Stone. Do you have the skills to survive in the deadliest dungeons of the Mountain of Ruz and recover the legendary artefact?

Released Dec 2, 2015 Developer Hammer Glass Studio Inc. Platforms Windows RPGDungeon CrawlerGrid-Based MovementAdventureFirst-Person
View on Steam ↗ $12.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.

71.1%positive142 reviews
Not recommended · 0 found this helpful

“Maybe Legend of Grimrock one and two spoiled me but this game isn't doing itself any favors. Pretty boring exploration / areas / enemies. I guess "maze" means lots of dead-ends . . .”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
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Player activity

Monthly average concurrent players. History through 2024-02 via SteamCharts; self-collected from the Steam API since Aug 2026.

17all-time peak
0 5 10 2016 2018 2020 2022 2024 No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period No data collected for this period 5 avg · Dec 2015

Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-09-28.

40achievements
2.4%median completion
0.6%rarest: Assassin
71.1% of players 44.6% of players 43.6% of players 32.6% of players 31.3% of players 26.1% of players 24.8% of players 19.5% of players 17.6% of players 15.7% of players 13.6% of players 12.4% of players 10.4% of players 8.6% of players 8.6% of players 6.2% of players 6.0% of players 5.0% of players 4.7% of players 4.1% of players 2.4% of players 2.3% of players 2.2% of players 2.0% of players 2.0% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.9% of players 1.8% of players 1.8% of players 1.8% of players 1.7% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.4% of players 1.3% of players 1.1% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.6% of players 71.1% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
71.1%Visit The Reaper — Die once
44.6%Battle-Hardened — Kill 50 creatures
43.6%Pitfall — Fall 10 times in a hole
Rarest badges of honor
0.6%Assassin — Perform 50 backstabs
1.0%Trapper — Trigger 25 traps against the creatures.
1.0%Champion — Complete 10 challenges

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jun 03, 2024
1.16.3: Added Config File for Binding Movement Keys.

You can now customize your movement keys using a configuration file added to your save game folder. KeyBindings.config contains the 6 input movements with the associated key. KeyBindingsReference.conf

Jun 01, 2024
Exciting News: Announcing Ruzar - The Dark Stones!

Dear Adventurers, I am thrilled to announce the upcoming release of Ruzar - The Dark Stones, the sequel to Ruzar - The Life Stone! In this new chapter, you will venture beyond the Mountain of Ruz, exp

May 22, 2024
Version 1.16.1 - Added Keys To Turn Left / Right

Turn left now has a new key binding: the "DEL" key Turn right now has a new key binding: the "PG DN" key

Oct 30, 2018
Version 1.16

Hello, It's been a long time :) and I finally released a new patch to fix some achievements that were not working. Also a few bugs have been fixed on that version. Thanks!

Apr 22, 2016
Version 1.14

Hello, A patch that fixes some issues found recently: Fixed a problem with the free camera. When the player was falling from a hole and the free cam was used after, the player was teleported to his pr

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.

GenresRPG
Player tagsRPG · Dungeon Crawler · Grid-Based Movement · Adventure · First-Person · Fantasy (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Steam Achievements · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish, French, Czech, German, Spanish - Spain
Achievements40
Official sitehttp://www.hammerglassstudio.com
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS *: Windows XP Processor: Dual Core 2.33 GHz Intel or 3.0 GHz AMD Memory: 2 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GTX 295, AMD Radeon 4850 (512MB graphics memory or more. Shader Model 3.0 needs to be supported). Minimum supported resolutions 1024×768. DirectX: Version 9.0c Storage: 1 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX 9.0c compatible Additional Notes: Low/Mid Rendering Quality setting is recommended on PC models without dedicated graphics cards. Please note that resolution higher than 1920 are not supported.