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The best top-down 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 48 top-down indie games on Steam, holding 1,016,914 reviews at an average of 91% 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 Last Epoch with 106,274 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Last Epoch · 106,274 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  2. Hotline Miami · 104,245 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  3. Don't Starve · 96,212 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  4. Enter the Gungeon · 78,401 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  5. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 67,285 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  6. FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,078 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  7. Prison Architect · 59,769 reviews · 89% positive · 2015
  8. The Binding of Isaac · 48,705 reviews · 95% positive · 2011
  9. Hero Siege · 35,911 reviews · 67% positive · 2014
  10. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 34,987 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  11. Mini Motorways · 23,045 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  12. Tiny Glade · 21,895 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  13. Ravenswatch · 21,499 reviews · 80% positive · 2024
  14. Baba Is You · 20,582 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  15. Hyper Light Drifter · 18,724 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  16. TUNIC · 17,506 reviews · 91% positive · 2022
  17. Mini Metro · 16,498 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  18. Magicraft · 16,417 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  19. Desperados III · 16,370 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  20. ZERO Sievert · 14,885 reviews · 85% positive · 2024

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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