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Boneraiser Minions

caiys · caiysware · 2023-03-09

Steam

ActionCasualIndieRPG

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 09, 2022 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

Amass an army of undead to fight endless waves of heroes intent to end your boneraising ways! In this gothic auto-battler rogue-lite Survivor-like, use the bones of slain heroes to raise your minions, collect relics and spells, and unlock meta upgrades, all to survive King Gigald's crusade!

Boneraiser Minions is an Action, Casual, Indie and RPG game released in 2023 for $4.99, with an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners and an Overwhelmingly Positive sentiment (96% of 5365 reviews).

7
playing now
96%
positive of 5.4k reviews
Overwhelmingly Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
62/100
IGDB user rating (7 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Verified
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$4.99
steam price (US)

7 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 12:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

Boneraiser Minions trailer thumbnail

Boneraiser Minions - Trailer

≈5,701 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 7 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 116 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~15/week).
  • · Review velocity down 32% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (899 reviews).
  • · Top 7% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

Health tier since 2026-08-28

Estimated sales: 107k–241k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 5,365 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.59 at Steam (2022-08-05) · bundled 1×via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $4.99 · on sale 9 of 18 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
87887820222026Week of 2022-08-01: 624 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 356 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2022-10-01: 250 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 292 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 131 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 217 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 107 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 878 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 21 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 266 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 195 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 129 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 139 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 75 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 73 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 265 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 69 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 71 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 54 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 68 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 30 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 35 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 28 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 18 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 24 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 16 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 34 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 8 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

1952026-09-14 22:00 — 17 players2026-09-16 06:00 — 7 players2026-09-17 13:00 — 11 players2026-09-18 21:00 — 16 players2026-09-20 04:00 — 18 players2026-09-21 12:00 — 9 players2026-09-22 20:00 — 15 players2026-09-24 03:00 — 7 players2026-09-25 11:00 — 7 players2026-09-26 18:00 — 19 players2026-09-28 02:00 — 18 players2026-09-29 09:00 — 8 players2026-09-30 17:00 — 10 players2026-10-02 00:00 — 15 players2026-10-03 08:00 — 12 players2026-10-04 16:00 — 16 players2026-10-05 23:00 — 16 players2026-10-07 07:00 — 7 players2026-10-08 14:00 — 5 players2026-10-09 22:00 — 15 players2026-10-11 05:00 — 14 players2026-10-12 13:00 — 10 players2026-10-13 21:00 — 8 players2026-10-14 12:00 — 7 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
66110Aug 2022Aug 2026Aug 2022 — avg 154 · peak 410Oct 2022 — avg 131 · peak 288Dec 2022 — avg 81 · peak 152Feb 2023 — avg 79 · peak 142Apr 2023 — avg 344 · peak 1,034Jun 2023 — avg 95 · peak 163Aug 2023 — avg 127 · peak 222Oct 2023 — avg 68 · peak 118Dec 2023 — avg 68 · peak 123Feb 2024 — avg 44 · peak 93Apr 2024 — avg 51 · peak 114Jun 2024 — avg 28 · peak 69Aug 2024 — avg 23 · peak 43Oct 2024 — avg 22 · peak 47Dec 2024 — avg 22 · peak 47Feb 2025 — avg 14 · peak 30Apr 2025 — avg 18 · peak 39Jun 2025 — avg 16 · peak 34Aug 2025 — avg 15 · peak 33Oct 2025 — avg 22 · peak 88Dec 2025 — avg 21 · peak 54Feb 2026 — avg 16 · peak 32Apr 2026 — avg 14 · peak 33Jun 2026 — avg 15 · peak 34Aug 2026 — avg 10 · peak 21
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Price history

$4.99$1.592022-08-052026-07-272022-08-05 — best price $1.592022-09-19 — best price $1.592022-09-27 — best price $2.992022-11-22 — best price $3.992022-12-23 — best price $3.992023-03-09 — best price $3.992023-05-01 — best price $4.242023-06-12 — best price $4.242023-06-30 — best price $3.742023-08-14 — best price $3.992023-09-25 — best price $4.242023-11-06 — best price $3.992023-12-21 — best price $3.742024-02-11 — best price $3.992024-03-16 — best price $3.992024-04-01 — best price $3.992024-05-20 — best price $3.742024-06-27 — best price $3.742024-09-16 — best price $3.742024-10-28 — best price $3.742024-11-27 — best price $3.742024-12-09 — best price $3.742024-12-19 — best price $3.742025-03-13 — best price $3.742025-03-31 — best price $3.742025-05-12 — best price $3.742025-06-26 — best price $3.242025-07-14 — best price $3.742025-08-25 — best price $3.742025-09-29 — best price $3.742025-10-27 — best price $3.242025-12-04 — best price $3.242025-12-18 — best price $3.242026-02-16 — best price $3.242026-03-19 — best price $3.242026-04-20 — best price $3.242026-06-08 — best price $3.242026-06-25 — best price $3.242026-07-21 — best price $3.242026-07-27 — best price $4.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

60+
achievements tracked
97.6%
earned "Thy First Boner"
43%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerSteam AchievementsFull controller supportSteam Trading CardsDualShock Controller SupportDualShock Controller SupportSteam CloudSteam LeaderboardsRemote Play TogetherFamily Sharing1 DLC

1 supported languages: English

Post-launch support: 1 DLC released, first 2024-06-17 (Steam store data)

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)8,5241%202

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

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

2DRPGIndieRetroActionArcadeCasualVampireControllerRogue-like

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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