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The best futuristic 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 45 futuristic indie games on Steam, holding 406,498 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 Beat Saber with 69,875 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Beat Saber · 69,875 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  2. Clone Drone in the Danger Zone · 36,357 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  3. Bright Memory: Infinite · 36,266 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  4. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · 34,401 reviews · 88% positive · 2023
  5. VTOL VR · 19,991 reviews · 98% positive · 2017
  6. The Ascent · 19,615 reviews · 73% positive · 2021
  7. SpaceEngine · 16,134 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  8. Breathedge · 14,845 reviews · 81% positive · 2021
  9. shapez 2 - Factory · 14,051 reviews · 97% positive · 2026
  10. Cloudpunk · 13,917 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  11. Nodebuster · 13,909 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  12. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk · 12,703 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  13. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,426 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  14. Natural Selection 2 · 8,647 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  15. Citizen Sleeper · 8,352 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  16. COCOON · 8,081 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  17. ANNO: Mutationem · 5,852 reviews · 81% positive · 2022
  18. Space Engineers 2 · 5,316 reviews · 75% positive · 2025
  19. Metal Garden · 4,593 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  20. Silica · 4,489 reviews · 76% positive · 2023

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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