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The best strategy indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 1224 strategy indie games on Steam, holding 12,452,638 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 Geometry Dash with 578,930 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Geometry Dash · 578,930 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  2. Don't Starve Together · 373,459 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Raft · 321,118 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  4. Schedule I · 282,319 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  5. 7 Days to Die · 275,623 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  6. RimWorld · 243,385 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  7. Satisfactory · 232,215 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  8. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 228,008 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  9. Slay the Spire 2 · 201,685 reviews · 60% positive · 2026
  10. Factorio · 193,619 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  11. Slay the Spire · 191,572 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  12. Squad · 178,355 reviews · 81% positive · 2020
  13. Dispatch · 171,317 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  14. Balatro · 158,089 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  15. Oxygen Not Included · 142,787 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  16. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 142,335 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  17. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition · 141,936 reviews · 98% positive · 2009
  18. Darkest Dungeon® · 139,306 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  19. Inscryption · 133,769 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  20. Teardown · 124,486 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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