Top indie games of 2022, by Steam reviews

Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 98 indie games released in 2022, holding 1,775,045 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 318,148 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are modeled estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

1. Raft · 318,148 reviews · 93% positive · Adventure
2. Vampire Survivors · 248,792 reviews · 98% positive · Action
3. Stray · 153,072 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
4. Teardown · 121,921 reviews · 96% positive · Action
5. Cult of the Lamb · 107,145 reviews · 96% positive · Action
6. PowerWash Simulator · 50,291 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
7. Stranded Deep · 43,247 reviews · 74% positive · Adventure
8. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,031 reviews · 93% positive · Indie
9. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 34,987 reviews · 93% positive · Action
10. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 33,520 reviews · 89% positive · Action
11. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe · 33,072 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
12. Stacklands · 28,512 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
13. Dorfromantik · 27,088 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
14. SurrounDead · 22,653 reviews · 92% positive · Action
15. Scorn · 18,620 reviews · 77% positive · Action
16. BONELAB · 17,742 reviews · 82% positive · Action
17. TUNIC · 17,506 reviews · 91% positive · Action
18. IXION · 17,264 reviews · 79% positive · Indie
19. Kena: Bridge of Spirits · 17,200 reviews · 92% positive · Action
20. Isonzo · 16,892 reviews · 83% positive · Action

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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