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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 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 160 rogue-like indie games on Steam, holding 4,400,991 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 · 377,538 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Hades · 287,428 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  4. Vampire Survivors · 252,503 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  5. Risk of Rain 2 · 242,114 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  6. Slay the Spire · 194,429 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  7. Balatro · 162,155 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  8. Dead Cells · 157,103 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  9. Darkest Dungeon® · 141,589 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  10. Inscryption · 135,789 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  11. Hades II · 115,411 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Buckshot Roulette · 111,526 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  13. Don't Starve · 97,202 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  14. Gunfire Reborn · 88,617 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  15. Noita · 81,754 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  16. Enter the Gungeon · 79,600 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  17. FTL: Faster Than Light · 63,006 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  18. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,710 reviews · 65% positive · 2026
  19. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 53,428 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  20. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,925 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 estimates, not official sales data.

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