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The best platformer 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 68 platformer indie games on Steam, holding 4,837,697 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 Terraria with 1,216,769 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,216,769 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Geometry Dash · 557,534 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  3. Hollow Knight · 487,097 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  4. Brawlhalla · 406,735 reviews · 80% positive · 2017
  5. It Takes Two · 212,497 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  6. Cuphead · 188,579 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  7. Dead Cells · 153,647 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  8. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,102 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  9. Celeste · 126,861 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. GRIS · 82,436 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  11. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy · 74,104 reviews · 82% positive · 2017
  12. INSIDE · 68,249 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  13. Katana ZERO · 65,392 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  14. Pizza Tower · 65,278 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  15. BattleBlock Theater® · 55,545 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  16. Little Nightmares · 51,668 reviews · 95% positive · 2017
  17. Blasphemous · 51,551 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  18. Ori and the Blind Forest · 50,521 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  19. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,426 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  20. Little Nightmares II · 49,174 reviews · 93% 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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