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The best fast-paced 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 25 fast-paced indie games on Steam, holding 711,567 reviews at an average of 94% 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 104,245 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Hotline Miami · 104,245 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  2. Gunfire Reborn · 87,954 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  3. Beat Saber · 69,505 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  4. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 67,285 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  5. Katana ZERO · 65,392 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  6. Pizza Tower · 65,278 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  7. Super Meat Boy · 29,255 reviews · 94% positive · 2010
  8. SUPERHOT · 27,503 reviews · 91% positive · 2016
  9. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,407 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  10. Just Shapes & Beats · 23,383 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  11. SpeedRunners · 22,779 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  12. Roboquest · 18,833 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  13. Trepang2 · 18,167 reviews · 93% positive · 2023
  14. Neon White · 16,835 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  15. Windblown · 10,048 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  16. Rivals of Aether II · 9,489 reviews · 80% positive · 2024
  17. MULLET MADJACK · 9,163 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  18. Overgrowth · 8,968 reviews · 81% positive · 2017
  19. Turbo Overkill · 7,288 reviews · 94% positive · 2023
  20. Lethal League Blaze · 6,632 reviews · 97% positive · 2018

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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