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The best pve 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 34 pve indie games on Steam, holding 1,271,503 reviews at an average of 82% 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 Valheim with 452,821 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Valheim · 452,821 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  2. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  3. MORDHAU · 91,623 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  4. Enshrouded · 90,330 reviews · 86% positive · 2024
  5. Mindustry · 23,402 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  6. SurrounDead · 22,653 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  7. No More Room in Hell 2 · 20,994 reviews · 49% positive · 2024
  8. Tribes of Midgard · 17,392 reviews · 76% positive · 2021
  9. Turmoil · 15,909 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  10. Dune: Spice Wars · 13,374 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
  11. PANICORE · 12,658 reviews · 79% positive · 2024
  12. Lunacid · 11,016 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  13. CULTIC · 8,379 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
  14. Void Crew · 8,293 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  15. Gloomwood · 8,125 reviews · 95% positive · 2022
  16. Day of Dragons · 7,770 reviews · 65% positive · 2019
  17. Jotunnslayer: Hordes of Hel · 7,465 reviews · 82% positive · 2025
  18. Sephiria · 5,724 reviews · 94% positive · 2025
  19. I Am Your Beast · 5,298 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  20. Pantheon: Rise of the Fallen · 5,034 reviews · 74% positive · 2024

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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