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The best gore 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 82 gore indie games on Steam, holding 3,405,721 reviews at an average of 90% 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 570,988 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Forest · 570,988 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 357,988 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  3. People Playground · 293,143 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  4. Black Mesa · 132,752 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  5. Last Epoch · 106,274 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  6. Hotline Miami · 104,245 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  7. Insurgency: Sandstorm · 103,254 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  8. Outlast · 101,554 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  9. Hell Let Loose · 97,740 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  10. MORDHAU · 91,623 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  11. DEVOUR · 68,077 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  12. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 67,285 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  13. Katana ZERO · 65,392 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  14. Blade and Sorcery · 58,237 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  15. Outlast 2 · 52,979 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  16. Blasphemous · 51,551 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  17. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 49,736 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  18. Liar's Bar · 47,908 reviews · 90% positive · 2024
  19. Pummel Party · 45,540 reviews · 89% positive · 2018
  20. SOMA · 45,295 reviews · 96% 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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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