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The best beat 'em up 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 22 beat 'em up indie games on Steam, holding 379,040 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 Castle Crashers® with 109,414 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Castle Crashers® · 109,414 reviews · 96% positive · 2012
  2. Gang Beasts · 54,799 reviews · 86% positive · 2017
  3. Rivals of Aether · 33,270 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  4. Paint the Town Red · 29,110 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  5. Sifu · 28,731 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  6. Streets of Rage 4 · 17,254 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  7. Another Crab's Treasure · 16,780 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  8. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge · 14,910 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  9. Dust: An Elysian Tail · 14,242 reviews · 95% positive · 2013
  10. Lost Castle 2 · 13,913 reviews · 78% positive · 2026
  11. Road Redemption · 13,527 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  12. Furi · 11,233 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  13. En Garde! · 4,141 reviews · 90% positive · 2023
  14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate · 4,123 reviews · 83% positive · 2024
  15. Gravity Circuit · 3,010 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  16. Charlie Murder · 2,603 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  17. Midnight Fight Express · 1,979 reviews · 89% positive · 2022
  18. Spark the Electric Jester 3 · 1,909 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  19. Sir Whoopass™: Immortal Death · 1,334 reviews · 82% positive · 2022
  20. Clash: Artifacts of Chaos · 1,328 reviews · 89% 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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