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The best strategy indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 404 strategy indie games on Steam, holding 8,296,289 reviews at an average of 87% 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 557,534 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Geometry Dash · 557,534 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  2. Don't Starve Together · 367,165 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Raft · 318,148 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  4. Schedule I · 275,336 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  5. Satisfactory · 228,423 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  6. RimWorld · 203,546 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  7. Factorio · 191,633 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  8. Slay the Spire 2 · 189,659 reviews · 63% positive · 2026
  9. Slay the Spire · 189,240 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  10. Dispatch · 166,232 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  11. Balatro · 155,457 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  12. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 140,498 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  13. Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition · 140,494 reviews · 98% positive · 2009
  14. Darkest Dungeon® · 138,477 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  15. Mount & Blade: Warband · 134,572 reviews · 98% positive · 2010
  16. Oxygen Not Included · 132,230 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  17. Inscryption · 131,971 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  18. Teardown · 121,921 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  19. Kerbal Space Program · 116,084 reviews · 95% positive · 2015
  20. Frostpunk · 112,340 reviews · 93% positive · 2018

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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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