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The best metroidvania 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 31 metroidvania indie games on Steam, holding 1,265,089 reviews at an average of 92% 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 Hollow Knight with 487,097 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Hollow Knight · 487,097 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  2. Dead Cells · 153,647 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  3. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,102 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  4. Blasphemous · 51,551 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  5. Ori and the Blind Forest · 50,521 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  6. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,426 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  7. Rain World · 42,258 reviews · 94% positive · 2017
  8. ENDER LILIES: Quietus of the Knights · 41,953 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  9. Nine Sols · 36,717 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  10. CARRION · 28,491 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  11. ANIMAL WELL · 22,251 reviews · 96% positive · 2024
  12. Hyper Light Drifter · 18,724 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  13. Death's Door · 18,632 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  14. ENDER MAGNOLIA: Bloom in the Mist · 17,963 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  15. TUNIC · 17,506 reviews · 91% positive · 2022
  16. Pseudoregalia · 16,367 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  17. FEZ · 16,137 reviews · 93% positive · 2013
  18. Rogue Legacy 2 · 14,990 reviews · 91% positive · 2022
  19. Lunacid · 11,016 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  20. F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch · 7,040 reviews · 87% positive · 2021

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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