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Top indie games of 2022, by Steam reviews

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

indielist tracks 597 indie games released in 2022, holding 3,007,577 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 324,860 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Raft · 324,860 reviews · 93% positive · Adventure
  2. Vampire Survivors · 252,503 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  3. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 231,865 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  4. Stray · 158,661 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  5. Teardown · 128,076 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  6. Cult of the Lamb · 113,167 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  7. NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD · 58,755 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
  8. Foxhole · 53,349 reviews · 79% positive · Action
  9. PowerWash Simulator · 51,088 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
  10. Stranded Deep · 43,831 reviews · 73% positive · Adventure
  11. Backrooms: Escape Together · 43,094 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  12. Inside the Backrooms · 38,840 reviews · 80% positive · Adventure
  13. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 38,211 reviews · 93% positive · Indie
  14. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,346 reviews · 93% positive · Action
  15. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe · 34,502 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
  16. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 34,255 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  17. Temtem · 31,278 reviews · 81% positive · Adventure
  18. SIGNALIS · 31,238 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  19. Stacklands · 29,436 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
  20. Dwarf Fortress · 29,379 reviews · 95% positive · Indie

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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