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The best fast-paced 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 44 fast-paced indie games on Steam, holding 861,940 reviews at an average of 91% 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 Hotline Miami with 110,606 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Hotline Miami · 110,606 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  2. Gunfire Reborn · 88,617 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  3. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 70,086 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  4. Beat Saber · 69,875 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  5. Pizza Tower · 66,697 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  6. Katana ZERO · 66,594 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  7. Duck Game · 39,087 reviews · 97% positive · 2015
  8. Super Meat Boy · 30,178 reviews · 94% positive · 2010
  9. SUPERHOT · 27,863 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  10. Just Shapes & Beats · 24,199 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  11. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 24,003 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  12. SpeedRunners · 22,851 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  13. Roboquest · 19,267 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  14. Neon White · 17,405 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  15. Wizard of Legend · 17,345 reviews · 91% positive · 2018
  16. Move or Die · 16,470 reviews · 89% positive · 2016
  17. Trepang2 · 16,112 reviews · 93% positive · 2023
  18. Serious Sam 4 · 15,705 reviews · 83% positive · 2020
  19. Clustertruck · 14,830 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  20. Furi · 11,284 reviews · 90% positive · 2016

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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