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Action indie game RUINER comes from Reikon Games and was published by Devolver Digital. Released in 2017, it has 12,243 Steam reviews with 89% positive sentiment, and launched at a $19.99 initial price.
Overview
RUINER is a 2017 Action game developed by Reikon Games and published by Devolver Digital. On Steam it has gathered 10,188 player reviews to date. The game is available on linux, windows, and launched at $20. The pairing of developer Reikon Games with publisher Devolver Digital is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Action projects reach the market. indielist's white-box method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 489,000 to 1.1 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, RUINER can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
10,188
Positive
Unknown
Steam appid
464060
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.0489K to 1.1M
units (median: 815K)
≈ $5.6M to $13.0M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2017 | +30 |
| price_$20 | 0 |
| positive_80% | 0 |
| final NB | 80 |
Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].
Methodology & limitations
Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review
counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range
is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it,
especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version
v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for RUINER at roughly 489,000 to 1.1 million copies, with a median around 815,000, derived from its 10,188 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $9.3M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
40 observed days · window low $1.99Across 40 observed UTC days from 2026-06-12 to 2026-07-21, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $1.99 to $3.99. The tracked-window low was $1.99 on 2026-06-12.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
Affiliate disclosure- Green Man Gaming -80%$3.99 Buy
- GOG.com -80%$3.99 Buy
- Steam reference$19.99 Buy
- Fanatical$22.23 Buy
- Humble Store
Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-21 20:24 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.
Platforms
linuxwindows
Genres
ActionIndie
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has RUINER sold?
- indielist estimates RUINER has sold between 489,024 and 1,141,056 units (median 815,040), derived from its 10,188 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed RUINER?
- RUINER was developed by Reikon Games and published by Devolver Digital.
- Who published RUINER?
- RUINER was published by Devolver Digital, developed by Reikon Games. See Devolver Digital's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was RUINER released?
- RUINER was released in 2017.
- How many reviews does RUINER have on Steam?
- RUINER has 10,188 Steam reviews.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like RUINER can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Action titles such as Rust, Terraria, Phasmophobia, ARK: Survival Evolved, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. On the developer side, Reikon Games's other releases and Devolver Digital's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where RUINER sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same RUINER page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Action game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.
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