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The best gore indie games, ranked by reviews

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

indielist tracks 127 gore indie games on Steam, holding 4,156,859 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 681,741 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Forest · 681,741 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  3. People Playground · 297,818 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  4. Black Mesa · 134,638 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  5. POSTAL 2 · 117,286 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  6. Hotline Miami · 109,410 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  7. Last Epoch · 106,524 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  8. Outlast · 104,099 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  9. Hell Let Loose · 99,551 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  10. SCUM · 98,248 reviews · 74% positive · 2025
  11. MORDHAU · 91,668 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  12. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 · 90,961 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  13. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 69,292 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  14. DEVOUR · 68,625 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  15. Blasphemous · 67,052 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  16. Katana ZERO · 66,310 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  17. Blade and Sorcery · 59,017 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  18. Pummel Party · 57,810 reviews · 89% positive · 2018
  19. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 56,949 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  20. Liar's Bar · 56,273 reviews · 90% positive · 2024

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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