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The best action roguelike indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 51 action roguelike indie games on Steam, holding 2,267,891 reviews at an average of 90% 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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth with 357,988 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 357,988 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  2. Hades · 281,339 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Vampire Survivors · 248,792 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  4. Risk of Rain 2 · 236,687 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  5. Dead Cells · 153,647 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  6. Hades II · 110,808 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  7. Cult of the Lamb · 107,145 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  8. Gunfire Reborn · 87,954 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  9. Noita · 79,583 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  10. Enter the Gungeon · 78,401 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  11. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,426 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. The Binding of Isaac · 48,705 reviews · 95% positive · 2011
  13. Hero Siege · 35,911 reviews · 67% positive · 2014
  14. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 34,987 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  15. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 29,466 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  16. Ravenswatch · 21,499 reviews · 80% positive · 2024
  17. Sifu · 20,045 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  18. Spelunky 2 · 19,488 reviews · 93% positive · 2020
  19. Roboquest · 18,833 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  20. Streets of Rogue · 17,038 reviews · 96% positive · 2019

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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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