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The best action indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 3591 action indie games on Steam, holding 32,748,052 reviews at an average of 85% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is Terraria with 1,247,686 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,247,686 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,176,471 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Garry's Mod · 1,098,377 reviews · 97% positive · 2006
  4. Wallpaper Engine · 951,931 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  5. Phasmophobia · 685,954 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  6. Geometry Dash · 608,638 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  7. ARK: Survival Evolved · 588,535 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  8. The Forest · 583,870 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  9. Hollow Knight · 507,072 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  10. Valheim · 475,018 reviews · 93% positive · 2026
  11. Palworld · 416,579 reviews · 95% positive · 2026
  12. Lethal Company · 411,982 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  13. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  14. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 390,185 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  15. Don't Starve Together · 377,538 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  16. Ready or Not · 350,242 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
  17. Subnautica · 343,137 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  18. Raft · 324,860 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  19. Sons Of The Forest · 323,531 reviews · 88% positive · 2024
  20. No Man's Sky · 310,268 reviews · 85% positive · 2016

How this list is built

Games are ranked by Steam review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales when actual figures are private. Each title links to its indielist page, where the white-box sales estimate expands into the full Boxleiter formula, so you can audit the number rather than trust a black box. Review counts come from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official sales data.

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