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The best strategy 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 2012 strategy indie games on Steam, holding 12,682,542 reviews at an average of 84% 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 Geometry Dash with 592,958 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Geometry Dash · 592,958 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  2. Don't Starve Together · 375,815 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Raft · 323,060 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  4. Schedule I · 287,984 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  5. 7 Days to Die · 279,128 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  6. Satisfactory · 234,628 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  7. Factorio · 234,322 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  8. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 230,075 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  9. Slay the Spire · 218,126 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  10. Slay the Spire 2 · 208,458 reviews · 61% positive · 2026
  11. RimWorld · 208,289 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  12. Squad · 180,090 reviews · 81% positive · 2020
  13. Dispatch · 173,939 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  14. Balatro · 160,336 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  15. Inscryption · 148,347 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  16. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 143,794 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  17. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition · 141,936 reviews · 98% positive · 2009
  18. Darkest Dungeon® · 140,551 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  19. Oxygen Not Included · 135,173 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  20. Teardown · 126,233 reviews · 96% 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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