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

indielist tracks 151 rogue-lite indie games on Steam, holding 4,225,576 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 · 287,428 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Vampire Survivors · 252,503 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  4. Risk of Rain 2 · 242,114 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  5. Slay the Spire · 194,429 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  6. Balatro · 162,155 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  7. Dead Cells · 157,103 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  8. Darkest Dungeon® · 141,589 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  9. DAVE THE DIVER · 139,867 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  10. Inscryption · 135,789 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  11. Hades II · 115,411 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Cult of the Lamb · 113,167 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  13. Buckshot Roulette · 111,526 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  14. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 · 91,128 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  15. Gunfire Reborn · 88,617 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  16. Noita · 81,754 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  17. Enter the Gungeon · 79,600 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  18. FTL: Faster Than Light · 63,006 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  19. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,710 reviews · 65% positive · 2026
  20. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 53,428 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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