RUINER
Fair · Shooter · 2017
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.4h
- Value
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews
- 89% positive
Recent reviews trending down: 74% over the last 30 days against 89% all-time.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, GeForce GTX 460 (1024 MB) / Radeon HD 6850 (1024 MB), 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, Linux.
RUINER is a brutal action shooter set in the year 2091 in the cyber metropolis Rengkok. A wired psychopath lashes out against a corrupt system to uncover the truth and retrieve his kidnapped brother under the guidance of a secretive hacker friend.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was March 2026. 72 discounts in the 9 years on record. They run about 75 percent off, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 28 percent on value. It is pricier than 73 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 81 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. UBERMOSH ($0.99, scores 88) and SYNTHETIK: Legion Rising ($19.99, scores 82) both outscore it.
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 14 points higher at 89 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 19 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Players rate it 89 percent positive over its lifetime, but the last 30 days run 74 percent. Something recent has soured the room. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 8 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written June 2021 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 552 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 percent of the 1,396 reviews written there were positive, against 89 percent overall, and those are 14 percent of everything written about it.
5.4 hours to finish it, 16 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.9 times the campaign.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 5.4 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
74% start to 19% finishA normal fall-off for a game this long. Steam global achievements
Players
5 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
A fun & challenging cyberpunk themed twin-stick shooter with a mild chance of cyberpsychosis in form of epilepsy or seizure. Storytelling is one area where Ruiner falls short, but its striking art style, music & surprisingly varied gameplay still make it an easy recommendation.
This is such a weird case of "what are these reviews even talking about?". After some initial learning curves on mechanics this game is insanely straight forward - even on hard - and there's not really a whole lot of BS outside of occasionally janky projectile hitboxes. Story's plain and keeps you wanting to move, stat page lets you freely customize builds (even mid fight) so you can try something else immediately...
7.2/10 Didn't care much for the story. Interesting characters, fluid combat, nice graphics/art style.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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RUINER scores 57/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/464060/ruinerThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 17, price as of Sep 24.
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