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The best historical indie games, ranked by reviews

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

indielist tracks 55 historical indie games on Steam, holding 1,051,867 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 230,075 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 230,075 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  2. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 143,794 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  3. Hell Let Loose · 99,551 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  4. MORDHAU · 91,668 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,556 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  6. Banished · 43,322 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  7. Medieval Dynasty · 42,970 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  8. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,817 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  9. Return of the Obra Dinn · 35,143 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,824 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  11. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,829 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  12. Dawn of Man · 17,080 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  13. Murders on the Yangtze River · 15,813 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  14. Isonzo · 14,413 reviews · 83% positive · 2022
  15. Easy Red 2 · 14,132 reviews · 90% positive · 2022
  16. War of Rights · 13,414 reviews · 88% positive · 2018
  17. Turmoil · 13,131 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  18. Yes, Your Grace · 12,541 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  19. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey · 9,778 reviews · 79% positive · 2020
  20. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,318 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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