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The best violent 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 111 violent indie games on Steam, holding 2,422,313 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 People Playground with 297,818 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. People Playground · 297,818 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  2. POSTAL 2 · 117,286 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  3. Hotline Miami · 109,410 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. Last Epoch · 106,524 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  5. Hell Let Loose · 99,551 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  6. SCUM · 98,248 reviews · 74% positive · 2025
  7. A Way Out · 78,071 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  8. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 69,292 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  9. DEVOUR · 68,625 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  10. Blasphemous · 67,052 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  11. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice · 66,729 reviews · 90% positive · 2017
  12. Katana ZERO · 66,310 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  13. Blade and Sorcery · 59,017 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  14. Outlast 2 · 54,180 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  15. SUPERHOT · 40,731 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  16. Graveyard Keeper · 39,457 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  17. Pavlov · 37,866 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  18. Bright Memory: Infinite · 36,218 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  19. Return of the Obra Dinn · 35,143 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  20. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 34,144 reviews · 89% 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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