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Top indie games of 2022, by Steam reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 527 indie games released in 2022, holding 2,984,165 Steam reviews combined. This list ranks them by review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales, and links each to a white-box sales estimate you can open and check. The leader is Raft with 323,060 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Raft · 323,060 reviews · 93% positive · Adventure
  2. Vampire Survivors · 265,401 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  3. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 230,075 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  4. Stray · 157,286 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  5. Teardown · 126,233 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  6. Cult of the Lamb · 111,806 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  7. NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD · 53,774 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
  8. PowerWash Simulator · 50,861 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
  9. Foxhole · 47,244 reviews · 79% positive · Action
  10. Stranded Deep · 43,593 reviews · 74% positive · Adventure
  11. Backrooms: Escape Together · 41,909 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  12. Inside the Backrooms · 38,790 reviews · 80% positive · Adventure
  13. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,817 reviews · 93% positive · Indie
  14. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe · 36,104 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
  15. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,237 reviews · 93% positive · Action
  16. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 34,144 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  17. Temtem · 31,266 reviews · 81% positive · Adventure
  18. SIGNALIS · 30,482 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  19. Dwarf Fortress · 29,265 reviews · 95% positive · Indie
  20. Stacklands · 29,197 reviews · 96% positive · Casual

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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