Army of Ruin
Worth it · Roguelike · 2023
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $7.99.
- Length
- 19.4h
- Value
- $0.41/hr
- Reviews
- 88% positive
Buy now or wait
The Autumn Sale is on until Oct 8. It is at full price today.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales on record.
- Autumn Sale cooldown
- None on record
- Typical seasonal cut
- 40% ($4.79)
- Deepest seasonal cut
- 50% ($3.99)
- Last discount ended
- 16 days ago
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, DirectX 10 capable hardware, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
Wreak havoc on countless foes with mighty weapons and deadly spells! Enhance your skills and face even greater dangers! Army of Ruin is an auto-shooter where you become the Bullet Hell.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $3.59. That was October 2022. It has been discounted 21 times in the 4 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 12 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 2 weeks ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 27 percent on value. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 71 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Nordic Ashes: Survivors of Ragnarok ($9.99, scores 69) beats it on value, while it beats Slime 3K: Rise Against Despot ($4.99, scores 49).
This site sampled 589 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 10 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written October 2022 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 68 percent of the 283 reviews written there were positive, against 88 percent overall, and those are 12 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 19.4 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 49, 2.5 times as much.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
The drop-off
79% start to 9% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Army of Ruin is a Vampire survivors clone that comes with a better early game, a better evolution system, and a charm system. However, the late game is significantly worse than vampire survivors due to poor scaling of the upgrades and money earned. It becomes grindy as you will be forced to repeat levels in order to earn enough money for getting upgrades that make it possible to beat most tier 6 rounds and all tiers...
The game is actually a pretty fun, however there is a single gameplay flaw that kills gameplay. There is no ability to reroll rewards, and there is no ability to banish rewards. In addition to this, the unlocks in the game depend on leveling specific rewards. This means that after the first few runs, the game turns into and RNG grind fest. Need to level a specific weapon to level 5? Get ready to do a bunch of runs...
This is my favorite bullet heaven so far. Everything in the game is very polished and balanced and you can get very creative with the builds. It is straight to the point pure bullet heaven done really well. I have played megabonk, vampire survivors, Halls of Torment and Chuminis and this is my favorite in the genre so far.
Steam reviews, mixed to match its Steam ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Cite this score
Army of Ruin scores 68/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1918040/army-of-ruinReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 26, price as of Oct 1.
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