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The best action roguelike indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 89 action roguelike indie games on Steam, holding 2,641,450 reviews at an average of 89% 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 393,010 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  2. Hades · 285,527 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Vampire Survivors · 265,401 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  4. Risk of Rain 2 · 239,751 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  5. Dead Cells · 155,998 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  6. Hades II · 114,178 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  7. Cult of the Lamb · 111,806 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  8. Gunfire Reborn · 88,504 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  9. Noita · 81,032 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  10. Enter the Gungeon · 79,343 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  11. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 57,582 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. The Binding of Isaac · 49,184 reviews · 95% positive · 2011
  13. Hero Siege · 36,742 reviews · 67% positive · 2014
  14. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,237 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  15. Halls of Torment · 30,681 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  16. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 30,361 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  17. Sifu · 28,731 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  18. 20 Minutes Till Dawn · 27,838 reviews · 90% positive · 2023
  19. Soulstone Survivors · 25,698 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
  20. Roboquest · 24,378 reviews · 95% positive · 2023

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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