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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.

Army of Ruin is a action roguelike, bullet hell and exploration game developed and published by Milkstone Studios.
Released on June 08th 2023 is available on Windows and MacOS in 14 languages: English, Spanish - Spain, German, French, Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil, Dutch, Czech, Russian, Vietnamese, Italian, Hungarian and Turkish.

It has received 2,349 reviews of which 2,085 were positive and 264 were negative resulting in a rating of 8.5 out of 10. 😎

The game is currently priced at 7.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 6.19€ on Instant Gaming.

The Steam community has classified Army of Ruin into these genres:

Action Roguelike Bullet Hell Exploration Shoot 'Em Up Top-Down Shooter Hack and Slash Rogue-lite Shooter Rogue-like Action RPG 3D Top-Down Third Person Survival Choices Matter Action Casual Procedural Generation Cartoony Dark Fantasy

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System requirements

These are the minimum specifications needed to play the game. For the best experience, we recommend that you verify them.

Windows

Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
OS *: Windows Vista or newer
Processor: Quad core processor
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: DirectX 10 capable hardware
DirectX: Version 11
Storage: 1 GB available space

MacOS

OS: Mac OS X 10.9+, tested on OSX 10.10+
Processor: 2.5GHz dual-core Intel Core i5
Memory: 2 GB RAM
Graphics: OpenGL 2 Graphics card
Storage: 1 GB available space

User reviews & Ratings

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March 2025

One of the better survivors like bullet hell games. Lots to unlock, good difficulty scaling and interesting unlocks.

Jan. 2025

I saw a lot of comments/posts/reviews that are negative and I'm here to say thanks dev for a great game and I'mma tell you why I think so. But first, going back to the negatives. Mainly the negatives are either newbie finding this too newbie un-friendly or comparison between this and other games in the same genre e.g. Vampire Survivors etc. From my experience, this game rely heavily in 2 aspects which is meta progression and unlockables. Which is great because thats what you should be doing in games like these. Sometimes it feels like you're not really progressing even after spending quite an amount in meta progression but maybe its more so you're not focusing on the right thing. Maybe you're too focus i.e. tunnel vision on something when you should spread out and get as much as possible. Luck for example, is great but you dont know how good it'll be until you actually put points into it. Some weapons only works a certain way which is not a new thing but maybe for some people who have never come across these type of mechanic, they might think its a bug. Elven Bow for example, has one the highest DPS but it only shoots to the right. This game is grindy, but in a good way IMO. You dont necessarily need to grind to 100% complete the game. Just continue unlocking stuff (maps, heroes, weapons, trinkets, charms etc) and doing challenges and you'll get there. I hunt towards unlocking Midas early on and that helps a lot but never did a single midas farm run. Normally when I 100% complete a game thats it for me. Uninstall and move on to the next one. But on rare occasion, some games will come out with great replayability e.g. Slay the Spire, Vampire Survivors, BTD6 etc and I think this game is one of them. You can come up with self impose challenges and see how it goes. There are a lot more that I could mention but nobody cares anyway so tl:dr, It;s a great game! Just keep at it and if it doesnt work, tweaks and try a different approach. You'll get there eventually.

Nov. 2024

If you enjoy vampire survivors, this is another one to get that bullet-heaven style fix.

Oct. 2024

If you want a competent VS-like with lots of unlocks to grind, this is worth your money. If you're looking for something new, this ain't it. The game plays like many others. Controls are down to a joystick and an action button. While some characters get movement and defensive special abilities, there is no dash or dodge. You move around screen while all of the mobs slowly trudge toward you. Some mobs have projectiles and other tricks up their sleeves, but most are generic creeps (love the archers who chase you around oh so slowly while so they can... pinch you? Whack your shins with their unstrung bows?). The art style is fine, but overly familiar and while the assets look much more cohesive than many others, it still feels really generic. There are a bunch of characters, though, even if several are reskins, and tons of weapons and trinkets to unlock through playing the game. I'm 25 hours in and haven't been focusing on unlocks exclusively, but I've still only unlocked about a third of the equipment and characters. So far, I've only encountered standard difficulty modifiers and endless mode, so you'll mostly just be playing the same handful of maps in the same game mode over and over again. There are game speed unlocks that are very welcome. So, good, not great, pretty bland, but it plays well and lots to keep coming back for, even if without much variety in the levels.

Sept. 2024

Probably the best bullet heaven/hell game on Steam, outside of the obvious VS. Lots of weapons and upgrades, lots of characters. It's just fun, simple as that.

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