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Action indie game Army of Ruin launched in 2023 from Milkstone Studios, which also publishes it. With 2,741 Steam reviews at 88% positive and a $7.99 initial price, it fits a budget hidden-gem angle for players seeking well-liked indie action.
Overview
Army of Ruin is a 2023 Action game developed by Milkstone Studios and published by Milkstone Studios. On Steam it has gathered 2,411 player reviews, 88% of them positive, which counts as a very positive reception among indie titles in the Action category. The game is available on mac, windows, and launched at $8. The pairing of developer Milkstone Studios with publisher Milkstone Studios 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 80,000 to 186,000 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, Army of Ruin can be compared against similar Action titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
2,411
Positive
88%
Steam appid
1918040
Engine
Unknown
Players (snapshot)
Unavailable
Sales estimate
v1.080K to 186K
units (median: 133K)
≈ $363K to $847K modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)
+ - How is this calculated?
| Factor | Adjustment |
|---|---|
| base | +50 |
| year_2023 | 0 |
| price_$8 | -5 |
| positive_88% | +10 |
| final NB | 55 |
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 Army of Ruin at roughly 80,000 to 186,000 copies, with a median around 133,000, derived from its 2,411 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $605K 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
9 observed days · window low $3.99Across 9 observed UTC days from 2026-06-09 to 2026-07-22, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $3.99 to $7.99. The tracked-window low was $3.99 on 2026-06-09.
Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.
Where to buy
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Platforms
macwindows
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has Army of Ruin sold?
- indielist estimates Army of Ruin has sold between 79,563 and 185,647 units (median 132,605), derived from its 2,411 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed Army of Ruin?
- Army of Ruin was developed by Milkstone Studios and published by Milkstone Studios.
- Who published Army of Ruin?
- Army of Ruin was published by Milkstone Studios, developed by Milkstone Studios. See Milkstone Studios's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
- When was Army of Ruin released?
- Army of Ruin was released in 2023.
- How many reviews does Army of Ruin have on Steam?
- Army of Ruin has 2,411 Steam reviews, of which 88% are positive.
- Is Army of Ruin worth playing?
- Steam players rate Army of Ruin 88% positive across 2,411 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.
Ecosystem
Players looking for games like Army of Ruin 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, Milkstone Studios's other releases and Milkstone Studios's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where Army of Ruin 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 Army of Ruin 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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