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Army of Ruin
Developer Milkstone Studios
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. From the Steam store page
197 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Mastodon) · newest Oct 6, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
75
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135 positive · 44 negative
95% range 69–81%
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Steam's own rating
Very Positive
2,486 of 2,825 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
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Reactions
60 of 197 · most liked firstHello! We're Milkstone, a small independent game studio with one goal: Making fun games while we have fun doing them. Right now we're working on #FarmTogether2 and recently we released #ArmyOfRuin and #Ziggurat2 both on Steam and consoles. Hope to see you around!
unlabelledView post →I put a good amount of time into it but overall, just really burned out by the design choices. Pros: - Graphics are nice - Music is decent - Lots of weapons & relics - Some nice character models - Aesthetics of characters, maps and enemies are nice - Lots of achievements to unlock if you like having goals Cons: - The enemy powercreep increases far more quickly than player powercreep creating time sinks to grind gold for unlocks - Most unlockable characters are just a recolor of the original…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is amazing. From the gameplay to the lore, this game is for casual and hardcore gamers alike. The lore is extremely rich and deep and it will keep you invested. I recommend this to anyone.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After finishing Death Stranding 2, I’m not ready for another big game, need something that is just mindless fun With that in mind, I’ve opted for Army of Ruin 🔥 which is on sale for £4.21 at the min!
unlabelledView post →Army Of RuinArmy of Ruin, for one of the earlier Bullet Heavens, has a surprising amount of content in it's challenges and unlockables and does enough to set itself apart from Vampire Survivors. But it takes way too long to get fun or even playable for that matter, when most lost runs are unavoidable that's on the game, not the player. GameplayHere's a quick speedrun overview of the core features: Lots of characters but they are bland, weapons and passives are very unique, lots of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got tired of the Survivors formula, but this game just does it right: short runs, unlocks are more puzzles than grind. Played a lot of bullet heavens out there, this one is just great. And not that long to get 100 %, honestly.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Army of Ruin is great I don't even want to write this, I'd rather just play more, but here we go. WHY /How is it so much better than most Bullet-heavens I've tried?? Very good pacing of unlocks- every time I feel like the gameplay is starting to become a little stale or repetitive, the game will throw something else at me (a new weapon unlock, a new set of challenges that give rewards, new feature unlock, et cetera) You can maybe...okay, just saying theoretically...play this while…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is one of the better Survivor-likes, having fun with it, pretty balanced with tons of achies.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampire Survivors but with a little more disrespect for your GPU. Not a bad game at all but it gets a little stale after a while.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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 above that. It lacks the explosive end game power creep that makes vampire…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its a mid tier vampirelike. It has all what makes these good but doesnt push any boundries with new innovative features. Its just more of the same with a different theme. Fun if youre looking for a survivors game but nothing groundbreaking.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Feels too safe, like a kids game of something. Cute graphics, cute music. Fine game mechanics. Overall, I just felt underwhelmed and bored. Nothing to hook me in.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Army of Ruin is the gaming equivalent of ordering fast food at 2AM. You know its not sophisticated, but it hits the exact spot you needed without asking anything of you. Turn off your brain, mash through waves of enemies, and suddenly thirty minutes vanish like fries at the bottom of the bag.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →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 leveling to the point where you have 3 weapons and get a pull for your 4th that…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampire Survivors clone with most mechanics being pretty much the same. Instead of evolving weapon with a specific trinket (as in VS) each trinket infuses an element and you need 2 specific elements to evolve a weapon. At first I thought this seemed restrictive, but compared to VS it allows for more varied builds and you can mix up the trinkets and still evolve all your weapons. The need to traverse large distances to fight optional (does not feel optional) bosses is a slog and travelling…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The gameplay is great and it's, to the best of my knowledge, one of the first survivors-likes to come around after Vampire Survivors. The graphics are cute, which is a nice change of pace. Only thing I don't like is there's no auto-select for gold once you've maxed all your skills, so level ups are kinda tedious at that point due to animations. That won't happen for a while, though, on non-endless runs. It's a completed game, so don't jump in expecting new content; I haven't had any issues…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's sad that this one didn't take off. It is at the very least competent and stable. The elemental infusion system is far easier to understand than the "guess the synergy and try to remember it" mechanic of VS and others. If this had gotten the support (and co-op) VS recieved I easily would have preferred it, but as it is it's still a fun game to spend at least as much time as the cost of the game would be worth.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Addictive. Super tight gameplay and unlock system. 100 hours in and loving it.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I just love bullethells, this is one of the proper ones, around 80h in and love it, both me and the kid enjoys it fully, ideal game for vacation, airplane, etc.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Army of Ruin is an engaging bullet-heaven action roguelite that carves a place for itself in the increasingly crowded genre popularized by titles like Vampire Survivors. Developed by Milkstone Studios, the game embraces the chaotic charm of screen-filling enemy waves, over-the-top spell effects, and fast-paced progression, all while adding its own flair with a structured meta-progression system, class-based characters, and a polished, stylized presentation. It doesn’t reinvent the genre, but it…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A simple but effective trick that we use in #Ziggurat2 and to a lesser extent in #ArmyOfRuin is to blend grunge textures (using a 3D noise pattern) to add more detail/variation to the environments. #gamedev #indiedev #Unity3D #madewithunity https://store.steampowered.com/app/1159560/Ziggurat_2/
unlabelledView post →The art, animations and UI all combine to make it feel like a bad mobile game. If you want a better bullet heaven game, get Conquest Dark or Not Another Zombie Survivor. Both are mind-blowingly good representations of the genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sometimes you play a game that just makes you go, “These people really understand game design.” Army of Ruin is one of those. The central premise of this game seems to have been, “What if Vampire Survivors had every single quality-of-life update you could possibly imagine?” Unlike almost every other VS clone I’ve played, this is a VS clone that’s better than the original pretty much across the board. The UI is better, the menus are clearer, everything is beautifully organized, there are…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Nothing really wrong with this game except it's pretty bland and too easy. Ultimately it's boring. Only recommend if you're new to the genre but even then you will probably find better.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is absolute junk, a copycat of Vampire Survivors without understanding anything about why that game was successful. First of all, it completely lacks the power scaling aspect. Upgrades are insanely expensive, and level-ups are not significant. Evolutions sometimes feel decent, but most feel underwhelming. And this isn't accounting for the amount of work you have to do to get them. That's the worst part of all. Weapon evolutions are based on elements gained with passives. However, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great meta progress & long term motivation, doesn't get boring. Runs well on the steam deck.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →4 am and I'm still playing this 👍
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't like it. I don't like anything about it. I don't like the stages, all the objects in the stages, I don't like the movement speed of my character, I don't like the attacks and I don't like that I need to grind every character to unlock attacks. I don't like the gameplay, it's slow. I'm not getting it, what's here? There's very little here.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just a boring game that doesn't really reward you with a sense of progression, yet you grind a whole lot.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's like Vampire Survivor but in 3D and less fun. Doesn't seem balanced and the game is very very repetitive. Basically you have to do the same maps with increased difficulty over and over again and accomplish challenges which unlock new weapons, artefacts and characters. Most of the time you won't be able to fully upgrade your weapons because the time limit runs out. Ennemies seems too resistant which make them slow to kill which in turn make the game slow and boring. You don't really see a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Its not a bad game by any means. It just falls into the "another vampire survivor clone" category for me. It does everything good, but nothing really unique about the game. ...But I already 100% Vampire Survivors, Halls of Torment, Death Must Die, Yet Another Zombie Survivors, and several others... So I went on to 100% this game too.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's just way too simple. The most streamlined and basic bullet heaven game I've played... but it's double the price of most??? Maybe get it on sale after you've played all the other games from this genre
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think the game is really good. If you like Vampire Survivors, you should buy it ;)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →nice production values but not much else
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →No auto aim just puts this in the "worse than all of the others with auto-aim" category.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I you played Vampire Survivors and want to play something similar, that feels fresh, play this. I love the "challenges" which makes you unlock tons of things. Extremely stable with nice graphics.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Progression is grindy and tedious, dont waste your time
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played for about six hours and couldn't find the fun. It's not terrible, it's just... meh. There's not really anything to set it apart from its peers, and the presentation is kind of bland. It's the meatloaf of the vampire survivors genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is like a cuter and simpler version of Vampire Survivors. But I think it's too simple and basic to my liking. On paper, it has everything that a survivor-like should have: a lot of weapons and characters, evolutions, meta progression perks, option to increase the gamespeed. But it lacks something special to keep my interest during the runs. I feel like I cannot fulfill the power fantasy, where I become the bullet hell for monsters and just explode screens. The power-ups during a run…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Platinum #18 is Army of Ruin 🏆 this is a good game if you just want some mindless fun! I really enjoyed it, up until the last trophy for getting 200 unlocks, very grindy and does not respect your time 😮💨
unlabelledView post →I cant progress without too much grind. Game don't adds anything new for this type of games.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most fun game for turning you brain off and just going oonga boonga. Love the rogue-like and advancement features!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampire Survivors is a great game, but I think my interest in the mechanics took a nosedive after about 20 hours. I tried another game like it recently (Army of Ruin) and got bored super quickly. It's weird. I *want* to play and enjoy these games but it's like my brain has had its fill of them.
unlabelledView post →To the new Players: Ever build a loadout so broken that you can literally walk away from your keyboard without worrying you'll take a single hit? That is the Army of Ruin experience. This is a solid bullet hell with a fun arsenal, making weapons like the Ink Geyser and Lightspark a blast to build around. The core loop is addictive, but be warned: you have to grind weapons you might not even like in previous runs just to unlock their true potential later. It is definitely a good time, though the…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Army of Ruin suffers from two significant flaws: 1) Design. The entire time I was playing I was wondering when a popup would start asking me for credit card information or if I want to watch an advertisement for +.6 seconds of increased gambler's high. The visual style, from the characters to the menus, have the appearance of a highly polished (derogatory) whale-hunting mobile game. It may not be Milkstone's fault that mobile "game" devs turn their players into lever-pulling rodents, but aping…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Casual, minimally involved game that has a lot of chance in how each run will go. Game runs super smooth on a M4 MBA and has full controller support. Intuitive and easy to play. I wish a couple early rolls didn't decide how the whole run will play out- but sometimes you win because of random chance and sometimes you get crushed despite picking the best options available. Frustrating, but it comes with the genre. Honestly, a fun but fairly mindless way to relax. 8.5/10
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Way too much grinding for such little gold for upgrades. Making 1 upgrade has no real impact on your next run. Not clear like Vampire survivor what items upgrade or evolve to what items.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grade: B Army of Ruin does something most bullet hells don't bother with — it gives a damn about how it looks. A dark fantasy fairy tale aesthetic that immediately sets it apart from the sea of pixel art survivors flooding the genre. The vibrant color schemes against chaotic enemy swarms shouldn't work as well as they do, but somehow the visual language actually helps you read the battlefield rather than fight it. That's a design win most games in this space fumble completely. I've seen enough…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A simple but effective and really fun game. There are lots of really cool weapons and trinkets to unlock, and the game is much less demanding and frustrating than some others in the genre. I’d say it’s a good entry point into the Bullet Heaven genre!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Starts slow but there is a lot to do. Yes... lot's of repetition but honestly that's just how it goes with these games. I wouldn't rate it the absolute best of the genre but it's towards the top. I did really enjoy the variety of characters and builds. The only real issue there is that the unlocks to reduce RNG come later in the game so there is a brief period of frustration when the RNG God's mess with you, but that's part of the fun right?
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The roguelike genre is so oversaturated with games that have very lackluster meta-progression, but in this game I feel like I unlock something meaningful after every single run. This is a roguelike that actually respects your time, which is pretty rare these days.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The healing items are chicken and watermelon
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Vampire Survivors, but with modern day graphics and controls
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun, straight forward and relaxing. Achievement hunting is fun and stramlined. Can recommend as a survivor game.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is already my 5th completed "survivors" and, of course, there are several others I've played but have not 100%ed. At this rate I'm not sure I'm reviewing the games or their achievements. It might look like I'm trying to get every survivors' achievement, and well, there is some truth to that to be honest. Very aracadey presentation here in comparison to other survivors, as I always say, just a matter of taste. I would have preferred even a semblance of a story, as some others in the genre…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't like this survivors game. I definitely don't recommend it. The characters and enemies are too slow for my liking. (At least in speed x1, but in speedier speeds the game becomes too hard). The hitboxes aren't right. Many times I heard the "bip" from having been hit while I didn't see any collision with the enemy. Also sometimes when I was low on HP I suddenly died without seeing what had hit me. Most attacks feel unsubstantial. Even when they hit the enemies they don't seem to make…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Exactly everything that a horde survivors genre game needs, enough stages, lots of chars and weaps/passives, rewarding runs, challenges, environmental dangers, and a good sped up mode. 10/10.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Underwhelming compared to other games in this genre. Did not hold my interest
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →perfect grind need to get very stubborn for enjoy but prepare to die a lot at the beginning. enormous amount of evolving skills. sanity is for the weak.
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