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The best futuristic indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 45 futuristic indie games on Steam, holding 405,110 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 69,713 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Beat Saber · 69,713 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  2. Bright Memory: Infinite · 36,218 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  3. Clone Drone in the Danger Zone · 36,009 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  4. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · 33,463 reviews · 88% positive · 2023
  5. VTOL VR · 19,847 reviews · 98% positive · 2017
  6. The Ascent · 19,192 reviews · 74% positive · 2021
  7. SpaceEngine · 15,759 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  8. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk · 15,662 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  9. Breathedge · 14,535 reviews · 81% positive · 2021
  10. Nodebuster · 13,830 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  11. Cloudpunk · 13,762 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  12. shapez 2 - Factory · 13,715 reviews · 97% positive · 2026
  13. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,395 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  14. Natural Selection 2 · 8,632 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  15. Citizen Sleeper · 8,217 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  16. COCOON · 7,918 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  17. ANNO: Mutationem · 5,825 reviews · 81% positive · 2022
  18. Space Engineers 2 · 5,529 reviews · 75% positive · 2025
  19. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist · 4,829 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  20. Silica · 4,457 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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