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The best gore 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 127 gore indie games on Steam, holding 4,041,470 reviews at an average of 88% 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 The Forest with 583,870 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Forest · 583,870 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  3. People Playground · 301,659 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  4. POSTAL 2 · 138,992 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  5. Black Mesa · 135,261 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  6. MORDHAU · 113,257 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  7. Hotline Miami · 110,606 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  8. Last Epoch · 107,275 reviews · 76% positive · 2024
  9. Outlast · 105,281 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  10. Hell Let Loose · 99,989 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  11. SCUM · 98,968 reviews · 74% positive · 2025
  12. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 · 91,128 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  13. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 70,086 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  14. DEVOUR · 68,921 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  15. Katana ZERO · 66,594 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  16. Blade and Sorcery · 59,298 reviews · 96% positive · 2024
  17. Blasphemous · 55,418 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  18. Outlast 2 · 54,648 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  19. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 53,428 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  20. Broforce · 49,603 reviews · 97% positive · 2015

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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