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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 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 44 fast-paced indie games on Steam, holding 868,618 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 109,410 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Hotline Miami · 109,410 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  2. Gunfire Reborn · 88,504 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  3. Beat Saber · 69,713 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  4. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 69,292 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  5. Katana ZERO · 66,310 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  6. Pizza Tower · 66,275 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  7. SUPERHOT · 40,731 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  8. Super Meat Boy · 29,984 reviews · 94% positive · 2010
  9. Duck Game · 25,255 reviews · 97% positive · 2015
  10. Roboquest · 24,378 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  11. Just Shapes & Beats · 23,986 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  12. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,829 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  13. SpeedRunners · 22,830 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  14. Trepang2 · 19,449 reviews · 93% positive · 2023
  15. Wizard of Legend · 17,317 reviews · 91% positive · 2018
  16. Neon White · 17,230 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  17. Move or Die · 16,474 reviews · 89% positive · 2016
  18. Serious Sam 4 · 15,568 reviews · 83% positive · 2020
  19. Clustertruck · 14,693 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  20. Furi · 11,233 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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