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The best strategy indie games, ranked by reviews

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

indielist tracks 2276 strategy indie games on Steam, holding 12,819,502 reviews at an average of 83% 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 608,638 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Geometry Dash · 608,638 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  2. Don't Starve Together · 377,538 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Raft · 324,860 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  4. Schedule I · 292,987 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  5. 7 Days to Die · 280,377 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  6. Squad · 245,799 reviews · 81% positive · 2020
  7. Satisfactory · 236,679 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  8. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 231,865 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  9. Slay the Spire 2 · 213,688 reviews · 61% positive · 2026
  10. RimWorld · 210,586 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  11. Factorio · 196,758 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  12. Slay the Spire · 194,429 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  13. Dispatch · 176,237 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  14. Balatro · 162,155 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  15. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 144,989 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  16. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition · 141,936 reviews · 98% positive · 2009
  17. Darkest Dungeon® · 141,589 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  18. Oxygen Not Included · 136,058 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  19. Inscryption · 135,789 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  20. Teardown · 128,076 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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