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The best rts indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 44 rts indie games on Steam, holding 552,763 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 98,181 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Kenshi · 98,181 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. Dyson Sphere Program · 83,444 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  3. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 56,949 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  4. Banished · 43,322 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  5. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,824 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  6. Foundation · 24,203 reviews · 87% positive · 2025
  7. IXION · 17,692 reviews · 79% positive · 2022
  8. Call to Arms · 17,421 reviews · 79% positive · 2018
  9. Dawn of Man · 17,080 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  10. Going Medieval · 16,994 reviews · 89% positive · 2026
  11. Door Kickers 2: Task Force North · 12,296 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  12. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,395 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  13. Planetbase · 9,552 reviews · 80% positive · 2015
  14. Natural Selection 2 · 8,632 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  15. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,318 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  16. Colony Survival · 8,248 reviews · 92% positive · 2017
  17. Steel Division 2 · 8,053 reviews · 79% positive · 2019
  18. Ultimate Admiral: Dreadnoughts · 6,650 reviews · 61% positive · 2023
  19. Sea Power : Naval Combat in the Missile Age · 6,131 reviews · 91% positive · 2024
  20. Prehistoric Kingdom · 5,602 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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