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The best building 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 185 building indie games on Steam, holding 11,612,972 reviews at an average of 87% 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 1,238,172 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,238,172 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,165,850 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Garry's Mod · 1,091,318 reviews · 97% positive · 2006
  4. Stardew Valley · 892,594 reviews · 98% positive · 2016
  5. The Forest · 681,741 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. ARK: Survival Evolved · 586,217 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  7. Valheim · 458,539 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  8. Palworld · 409,299 reviews · 95% positive · 2026
  9. Project Zomboid · 362,878 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  10. Raft · 323,060 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  11. People Playground · 297,818 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  12. Schedule I · 287,984 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  13. Satisfactory · 234,628 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  14. Factorio · 234,322 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  15. RimWorld · 208,289 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  16. ASTRONEER · 139,217 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  17. Oxygen Not Included · 135,173 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  18. Starbound · 120,672 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  19. Kerbal Space Program · 120,435 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  20. My Summer Car · 117,330 reviews · 95% positive · 2025

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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