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Dragon Ruins

Graverobber Foundation · 2024-04-30

SteamGOGPlayStation Store

CasualRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: Sep 04, 2025 (PlayStation 5), Apr 30, 2024 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 04, 2025 (Nintendo Switch), Jul 27, 2024 (PlayStation 4), Sep 05, 2024 (Xbox Series X|S), Sep 05, 2024 (Xbox One)

A dungeon crawling microgame for tired people.

91%
positive of 375 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
8h
to beat · rushed 6h · completionist 10h
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

Ancient ruins were discovered near Faselei, the Capital of Isigwere. The Queen calls for brave adventurers to assist in slaying an ancient dragon. Assemble a party of four heroes, delve into the dungeon, decide when to fight or run away, and grow stronger to survive the run to the dragon's lair in this micro dungeon crawler.(Storyline via IGDB)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 59 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~7/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 15,513 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.5k–17k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 375 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at GOG (2025-06-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
676720242026Week of 2024-04-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerPartial Controller SupportSteam CloudFamily Sharing1 DLC

3 supported languages: English, Ukrainian, Japanese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-04-30 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
PS4 (PlayStation)14675%12
PS5 (PlayStation)12278%12
PS4 (PlayStation)10890%12
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)10057%11
PS4 (PlayStation)9888%12
PS4 (PlayStation)14100%12
Switch (Nintendo)80%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

3DRPGRetroArcadeCasualFantasyManagementExplorationAuto BattlerDark Fantasy

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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