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2023 · Action Roguelike · Bullet Hell · Exploration

How long isArmy of Ruin?

by Milkstone Studios

12 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 4.5 hours and 31 hours

A bargain: 67¢ an hour, cheaper than 167 of 193 action roguelikes here.

Does Army of Ruin hold up?

Grows on people

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85% of its Steam reviewers recommend it at 2–5 hours played, and 96% at 50–100 hours played.

Earned when the share recommending a game rises 8 points or more from its first stage past the two-hour mark to its last, never falls 5 points on the way, and at least 80% of all its Steam reviewers recommend it. Every game that holds it.

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Do the first two hours of Army of Ruin tell you?

In the first two hours67%recommend it

After that91%recommend it

14 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 6 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 12 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 4.5 hours and 31 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 2,860 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

It grows on people: 85% recommend it at 2–5 hours, and 96% at 50–100 hours.

11% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 67% of those recommend it. After the window, 91% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 69% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 4.5 hours in.

When would you get there?

12days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 12 hours on Sunday, November 1.

Half of its reviewers had played between 4.5 and 31 hours: Oct 25 to Nov 20 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

How far do players get in Army of Ruin?

Launched it 100%

Earned its most common achievement 78%

Earned a typical achievement 24%

How this is counted

Steam's global achievement stats, as shares of players who launched it. They are not a finish rate.

Is Army of Ruin worth it?

Is Army of Ruin worth it? Yes.

  • A steal

    3× the hours of a typical action roguelike, for the same money

  • Loved

    91% recommend it after the refund windowmost action roguelikes: 91%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $7.99, the typical player's 12 hours come to 67¢ an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 91% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. At 67¢ an hour, Army of Ruin is cheaper per hour than 167 of 193 action roguelikes here: the typical one of 193 action roguelikes here charges $2.00, so the same $7.99 buys 3× the hours.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (action roguelikes) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Army of Ruin?

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How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Army of Ruin

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How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.