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The best rts 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 44 rts indie games on Steam, holding 542,366 reviews at an average of 85% 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 Kenshi with 96,887 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Kenshi · 96,887 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. Dyson Sphere Program · 83,095 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  3. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 55,747 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  4. Banished · 37,798 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  5. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,746 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  6. Foundation · 22,753 reviews · 87% positive · 2025
  7. Dawn of Man · 17,790 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  8. Call to Arms · 17,365 reviews · 79% positive · 2018
  9. Going Medieval · 16,830 reviews · 89% positive · 2026
  10. IXION · 15,003 reviews · 79% positive · 2022
  11. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 12,135 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,348 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  13. Planetbase · 9,494 reviews · 80% positive · 2015
  14. Natural Selection 2 · 8,618 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  15. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,264 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  16. Colony Survival · 8,203 reviews · 92% positive · 2017
  17. Steel Division 2 · 8,016 reviews · 79% positive · 2019
  18. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,606 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
  19. Prehistoric Kingdom · 6,503 reviews · 90% positive · 2022
  20. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 6,131 reviews · 91% 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 estimates, not official sales data.

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