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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 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 89 action roguelike indie games on Steam, holding 2,603,529 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 · 287,428 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Vampire Survivors · 252,503 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  4. Risk of Rain 2 · 242,114 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  5. Dead Cells · 157,103 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  6. Hades II · 115,411 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  7. Cult of the Lamb · 113,167 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  8. Gunfire Reborn · 88,617 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  9. Noita · 81,754 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  10. Enter the Gungeon · 79,600 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  11. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,925 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. The Binding of Isaac · 49,343 reviews · 95% positive · 2011
  13. Hero Siege · 36,967 reviews · 67% positive · 2014
  14. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,346 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  15. Halls of Torment · 30,852 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  16. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 30,833 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  17. 20 Minutes Till Dawn · 27,921 reviews · 90% positive · 2023
  18. Soulstone Survivors · 25,834 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
  19. Sifu · 22,147 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  20. Risk of Rain (2013) · 20,778 reviews · 93% positive · 2013

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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