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Recursive Ruin

Bit Rot · Iceberg Interactive · 2022-05-18

SteamGOGEpic Games Store

ActionAdventureCasualIndie

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: First person

Releases: May 18, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A story rich narrative puzzle game in which an artist comes to terms with their grief. Explore an infinitely recursive world of strange fractal beauty and solve mind-bending puzzles. Confront the ineffable and chat with your cat in a search for meaning and hope.

79%
positive of 327 reviews
Mostly Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
gold
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$14.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 22 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 25% of 26,519 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 6.5k–15k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 327 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

GOG$14.99
lowest across shops (ITAD)$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $2.95 at GameBillet (2026-06-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $16.34 · on sale 96 of 133 observed days · $12.04 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
444420222026Week of 2022-05-01: 44 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 2 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$16.34$3.322022-05-172026-10-122022-05-17 — best price $14.992022-07-12 — best price $11.242022-08-22 — best price $11.242022-11-27 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-02-03 — best price $11.242023-04-04 — best price $10.042023-05-10 — best price $14.992023-07-19 — best price $14.992023-08-25 — best price $11.892023-11-06 — best price $14.992023-12-15 — best price $7.502024-01-29 — best price $7.492024-03-06 — best price $14.992024-04-06 — best price $11.802024-04-29 — best price $13.492024-06-11 — best price $12.742024-07-29 — best price $5.992024-08-26 — best price $5.992024-10-10 — best price $11.802024-11-07 — best price $5.992024-12-10 — best price $11.802025-01-13 — best price $11.802025-03-11 — best price $5.092025-04-25 — best price $11.802025-06-09 — best price $5.102025-07-25 — best price $4.642025-09-15 — best price $5.992025-11-05 — best price $14.992025-12-12 — best price $5.092026-02-12 — best price $5.092026-03-30 — best price $3.742026-05-12 — best price $3.742026-07-10 — best price $3.742026-08-14 — best price $12.742026-09-21 — best price $3.752026-10-06 — best price $3.752026-10-12 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

17
achievements tracked
83.3%
earned "Recursive Ruin"
30.3%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsSteam Trading CardsFamily Sharing1 DLC

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2022-05-18 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)38030%17

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

Player tags

3DActionPuzzleSurrealAbstractAdventureStory RichAtmosphericExplorationExperimental

Census log

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

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