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The best historical 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 55 historical indie games on Steam, holding 1,072,579 reviews at an average of 86% 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 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with 231,865 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 231,865 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  2. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 144,989 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  3. MORDHAU · 113,257 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  4. Hell Let Loose · 99,989 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,932 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  6. Medieval Dynasty · 43,427 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  7. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 38,211 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  8. Banished · 37,944 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  9. Return of the Obra Dinn · 32,723 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,895 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  11. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 24,003 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  12. Dawn of Man · 17,149 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  13. Murders on the Yangtze River · 15,924 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  14. Easy Red 2 · 14,636 reviews · 90% positive · 2022
  15. Isonzo · 14,510 reviews · 83% positive · 2022
  16. War of Rights · 13,538 reviews · 88% positive · 2018
  17. Turmoil · 13,192 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  18. Yes, Your Grace · 12,694 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  19. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey · 9,881 reviews · 79% positive · 2020
  20. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,347 reviews · 89% positive · 2017

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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