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The best violent indie games, ranked by reviews

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

indielist tracks 112 violent indie games on Steam, holding 2,408,777 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 301,659 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. People Playground · 301,659 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  2. POSTAL 2 · 138,992 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  3. Hotline Miami · 110,606 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. Last Epoch · 107,275 reviews · 76% positive · 2024
  5. Hell Let Loose · 99,989 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  6. SCUM · 98,968 reviews · 74% positive · 2025
  7. A Way Out · 78,776 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  8. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 70,086 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  9. DEVOUR · 68,921 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  10. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice · 66,979 reviews · 90% positive · 2017
  11. Katana ZERO · 66,594 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  12. Blade and Sorcery · 59,298 reviews · 96% positive · 2024
  13. Blasphemous · 55,418 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  14. Outlast 2 · 54,648 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  15. Graveyard Keeper · 40,205 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  16. Pavlov · 37,862 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  17. CARRION · 36,327 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  18. Bright Memory: Infinite · 36,266 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  19. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 34,255 reviews · 89% positive · 2022
  20. BONEWORKS · 34,168 reviews · 92% positive · 2019

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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