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Alina of the Arena

PINIX · 2022-10-13

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IndieStrategy

Modes: Single player

Releases: Jan 19, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Jan 19, 2022 (Mac), Nov 23, 2023 (PlayStation 5), Nov 23, 2023 (PlayStation 4), Nov 23, 2023 (Xbox One), Nov 23, 2023 (Xbox Series X|S)

A roguelike deckbuilding tactics game that combines elements from 'Slay the Spire' and 'Into the Breach'. Play as a gladiator to survive. With roguelike deckbuilding and hex-based tactics, no longer bound by simple attack and defense. Make use of dodges and knockbacks to stay alive!

19
playing now
91%
positive of 4.0k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
69/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$14.99
steam price (US)

19 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 03:00 UTC (census sample)

Alina of the Arena is a 2022 video game developed by PINIX Games, self-published for Windows, Mac, and Xbox and published by DANGEN Entertainment in 2023 for the Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5. The game is a deck-building roguelite in which players defeat enemies in an arena. Upon release, the game received generally favorable reviews.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 19 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 121 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 19% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (659 reviews).
  • · Top 11% of 18,104 Indie games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 79k–178k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,962 total reviews — how this is computed.

Current store prices

Microsoft Store$14.99

Deal snapshots via CheapShark, refreshed daily.

All-time low: $5.99 at Steam (2026-05-04) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $14.99 · on sale 5 of 11 observed days · $9.00 above the all-time low (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
61361320222026Week of 2022-01-01: 613 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 46 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 302 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 32 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 90 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 105 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 22 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 113 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 78 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-08-01: 108 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 76 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 363 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 48 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 257 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 115 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 117 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 11 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 48 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 52 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 36 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 13 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 37 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

2232026-08-07 00:00 — 7 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 21 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 19 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 17 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 11 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 20 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 22 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 6 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 15 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 12 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 10 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 17 players2026-08-11 17:00 — 12 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 13 players2026-08-14 08:00 — 14 players2026-08-15 16:00 — 22 players2026-08-17 00:00 — 4 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 12 players2026-08-19 15:00 — 16 players2026-08-20 22:00 — 8 players2026-08-22 06:00 — 12 players2026-08-23 13:00 — 19 players2026-08-24 21:00 — 17 players2026-08-26 05:00 — 14 players2026-08-27 13:00 — 17 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 14 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 19 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$14.99$5.992022-01-192026-08-282022-01-19 — best price $10.392022-04-25 — best price $10.392022-06-23 — best price $10.392022-07-31 — best price $10.392022-08-10 — best price $14.992022-10-27 — best price $14.992022-11-29 — best price $14.992023-01-05 — best price $14.992023-01-28 — best price $14.992023-03-23 — best price $14.992023-05-15 — best price $14.992023-07-17 — best price $14.992023-09-04 — best price $14.992023-11-16 — best price $14.992023-11-28 — best price $14.992024-01-04 — best price $14.992024-04-01 — best price $14.992024-07-11 — best price $14.992024-08-05 — best price $14.992024-11-14 — best price $14.992024-12-04 — best price $14.992025-01-02 — best price $14.992025-03-20 — best price $14.992025-04-28 — best price $14.992025-06-09 — best price $14.992025-07-10 — best price $14.992025-10-06 — best price $14.992026-01-05 — best price $14.992026-03-26 — best price $14.992026-05-11 — best price $14.992026-07-09 — best price $14.992026-08-28 — best price $14.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Attention

1502026-05-30 — 0 pageviews2026-06-02 — 3 pageviews2026-06-05 — 5 pageviews2026-06-08 — 7 pageviews2026-06-11 — 4 pageviews2026-06-14 — 9 pageviews2026-06-17 — 6 pageviews2026-06-20 — 2 pageviews2026-06-23 — 1 pageviews2026-06-26 — 7 pageviews2026-06-29 — 4 pageviews2026-07-02 — 2 pageviews2026-07-05 — 6 pageviews2026-07-08 — 5 pageviews2026-07-11 — 5 pageviews2026-07-14 — 4 pageviews2026-07-17 — 3 pageviews2026-07-20 — 3 pageviews2026-07-23 — 3 pageviews2026-07-26 — 5 pageviews2026-07-29 — 4 pageviews2026-08-01 — 6 pageviews2026-08-04 — 2 pageviews2026-08-07 — 6 pageviews2026-08-10 — 3 pageviews2026-08-13 — 2 pageviews2026-08-16 — 3 pageviews2026-08-19 — 4 pageviews2026-08-22 — 2 pageviews2026-08-25 — 3 pageviews2026-08-26 — 4 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

42
achievements tracked
70.9%
earned "Slave Arena"
14.5%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsSteam WorkshopDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportDualSense Controller SupportSteam Cloud1 DLC

8 supported languages: English, Traditional Chinese, Simplified Chinese, Korean, Japanese, German, Spanish - Latin America, Russian

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)1,8913%42
PS5 (PlayStation)11919%42
Xbox Series, Xbox One (Xbox)1175%42
PS4 (PlayStation)2429%42
Switch (Nintendo)20%0

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

IndieHex GridStrategyCard GameDifficultRogue-likeRogue-liteDark FantasyDeckbuildingSingleplayer

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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