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The best rts indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 44 rts indie games on Steam, holding 544,092 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 99,170 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Kenshi · 99,170 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. Dyson Sphere Program · 83,815 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  3. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 53,428 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  4. Banished · 37,944 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  5. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,895 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  6. Foundation · 23,334 reviews · 87% positive · 2025
  7. Call to Arms · 17,492 reviews · 79% positive · 2018
  8. Dawn of Man · 17,149 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  9. Going Medieval · 17,104 reviews · 89% positive · 2026
  10. IXION · 15,423 reviews · 79% positive · 2022
  11. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 12,451 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,426 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  13. Planetbase · 9,591 reviews · 80% positive · 2015
  14. Natural Selection 2 · 8,647 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  15. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,347 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  16. Colony Survival · 8,282 reviews · 92% positive · 2017
  17. Steel Division 2 · 8,082 reviews · 79% positive · 2019
  18. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,695 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
  19. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 6,131 reviews · 91% positive · 2024
  20. Prehistoric Kingdom · 5,805 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 estimates, not official sales data.

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