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The best historical 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 39 historical indie games on Steam, holding 998,133 reviews at an average of 87% 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 Totally Accurate Battle Simulator with 140,498 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 140,498 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  2. Kingdom Come: Deliverance · 139,812 reviews · 84% positive · 2018
  3. Mount & Blade: Warband · 134,572 reviews · 98% positive · 2010
  4. Hell Let Loose · 97,740 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  5. MORDHAU · 91,623 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  6. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,676 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  7. Banished · 37,726 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  8. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,031 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  9. Return of the Obra Dinn · 31,275 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. Valiant Hearts: The Great War™ / Soldats Inconnus : Mémoires de la Grande Guerre™ · 24,204 reviews · 96% positive · 2014
  11. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,407 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  12. Dawn of Man · 17,719 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  13. Isonzo · 16,892 reviews · 83% positive · 2022
  14. Desperados III · 16,370 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  15. Turmoil · 15,909 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  16. War of Rights · 14,656 reviews · 88% positive · 2018
  17. Easy Red 2 · 13,034 reviews · 90% positive · 2022
  18. Tavern Master · 12,976 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  19. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey · 11,594 reviews · 79% positive · 2020
  20. Steel Division 2 · 9,499 reviews · 79% positive · 2019

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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