The best grand strategy indie games, ranked by reviews

Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 14 grand strategy indie games on Steam, holding 60,373 reviews at an average of 81% 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 Planetary Annihilation: TITANS with 11,426 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

1. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,426 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
2. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,347 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
3. Steel Division 2 · 8,082 reviews · 79% positive · 2019
4. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,695 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
5. Democracy 4 · 5,920 reviews · 82% positive · 2022
6. Prehistoric Kingdom · 5,805 reviews · 90% positive · 2022
7. Fantasy Map Simulator · 4,248 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
8. Dummynation · 3,179 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
9. Songs of Silence · 2,789 reviews · 81% positive · 2024
10. Spirit Island · 1,572 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
11. Arms Trade Tycoon: Tanks · 1,012 reviews · 66% positive · 2024
12. Interstellar Space: Genesis · 717 reviews · 84% positive · 2019
13. Lawgivers II · 581 reviews · 70% positive · 2023
14. SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3 · 0 reviews · 75% positive · 2018

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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