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The best rogue-like 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 160 rogue-like indie games on Steam, holding 4,474,258 reviews at an average of 89% 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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth with 393,010 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  2. Don't Starve Together · 375,815 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Hades · 285,527 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  4. Vampire Survivors · 265,401 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  5. Risk of Rain 2 · 239,751 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  6. Slay the Spire · 218,126 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  7. Balatro · 160,336 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  8. Dead Cells · 155,998 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  9. Inscryption · 148,347 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  10. Darkest Dungeon® · 140,551 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  11. Hades II · 114,178 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Don't Starve · 113,439 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  13. Buckshot Roulette · 109,655 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  14. Gunfire Reborn · 88,504 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  15. Noita · 81,032 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  16. Enter the Gungeon · 79,343 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  17. FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,676 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  18. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 57,582 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  19. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 56,949 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  20. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,504 reviews · 65% positive · 2026

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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