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The best rts indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 34 rts indie games on Steam, holding 681,670 reviews at an average of 87% 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 Frostpunk with 112,340 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Frostpunk · 112,340 reviews · 93% positive · 2018
  2. Kenshi · 95,289 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  3. Dyson Sphere Program · 82,685 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  4. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 49,736 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  5. They Are Billions · 45,754 reviews · 85% positive · 2019
  6. Banished · 37,726 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  7. Mindustry · 23,402 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  8. Foundation · 22,571 reviews · 86% positive · 2025
  9. Dawn of Man · 17,719 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  10. Call to Arms · 17,272 reviews · 79% positive · 2018
  11. IXION · 17,264 reviews · 79% positive · 2022
  12. Desperados III · 16,370 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  13. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 14,528 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  14. Dune: Spice Wars · 13,374 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
  15. Natural Selection 2 · 13,342 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  16. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 13,127 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  17. Steel Division 2 · 9,499 reviews · 79% positive · 2019
  18. Colony Survival · 8,875 reviews · 92% positive · 2017
  19. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,475 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  20. Prehistoric Kingdom · 6,070 reviews · 90% positive · 2022

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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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