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The best crafting 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 80 crafting indie games on Steam, holding 9,990,059 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 Terraria with 1,216,769 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,216,769 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,140,437 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Stardew Valley · 868,743 reviews · 98% positive · 2016
  4. ARK: Survival Evolved · 579,234 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  5. The Forest · 570,988 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. Unturned · 563,169 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  7. Valheim · 452,821 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  8. Don't Starve Together · 367,165 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  9. Palworld · 355,335 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  10. Project Zomboid · 343,212 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  11. Subnautica · 331,738 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  12. Raft · 318,148 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  13. No Man's Sky · 307,436 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  14. Schedule I · 275,336 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  15. Satisfactory · 228,423 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  16. Factorio · 191,633 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  17. DAVE THE DIVER · 133,203 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  18. Starbound · 120,582 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  19. ASTRONEER · 117,846 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  20. The Long Dark · 110,190 reviews · 89% positive · 2017

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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