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The best violent 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 76 violent indie games on Steam, holding 2,056,403 reviews at an average of 88% 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 293,143 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. People Playground · 293,143 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  2. Last Epoch · 106,274 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  3. Hotline Miami · 104,245 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. Insurgency: Sandstorm · 103,254 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  5. Hell Let Loose · 97,740 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  6. A Way Out · 76,189 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  7. DEVOUR · 68,077 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  8. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 67,285 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  9. Katana ZERO · 65,392 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  10. Blade and Sorcery · 58,237 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  11. Outlast 2 · 52,979 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  12. Blasphemous · 51,551 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  13. Little Nightmares II · 49,174 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  14. Graveyard Keeper · 38,639 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  15. Pavlov · 37,822 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  16. Bright Memory: Infinite · 36,072 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  17. BONEWORKS · 34,060 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  18. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 33,520 reviews · 89% positive · 2022
  19. Return of the Obra Dinn · 31,275 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  20. Wartales · 31,273 reviews · 86% positive · 2023

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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