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The best rogue-lite indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 147 rogue-lite indie games on Steam, holding 4,206,033 reviews at an average of 88% 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. Hades · 283,755 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Vampire Survivors · 264,182 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  4. Risk of Rain 2 · 238,509 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  5. Slay the Spire · 191,572 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  6. Balatro · 158,089 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  7. Dead Cells · 155,034 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  8. DAVE THE DIVER · 139,867 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  9. Darkest Dungeon® · 139,306 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  10. Inscryption · 133,769 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  11. Hades II · 112,612 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Cult of the Lamb · 109,350 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  13. Buckshot Roulette · 107,163 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  14. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 · 90,682 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  15. Gunfire Reborn · 88,330 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  16. Noita · 80,410 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  17. Enter the Gungeon · 79,041 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  18. FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,406 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  19. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,109 reviews · 66% positive · 2026
  20. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 55,747 reviews · 94% positive · 2018

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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