Top indie games of 2023, by Steam reviews

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

indielist tracks 113 indie games released in 2023, holding 1,390,693 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 Lethal Company with 409,614 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are modeled estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

1. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · Action
2. DAVE THE DIVER · 133,203 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
3. Pizza Tower · 65,278 reviews · 98% positive · Action
4. Party Animals · 56,574 reviews · 80% positive · Action
5. DREDGE · 45,431 reviews · 96% positive · Adventure
6. Ranch Simulator: Build, Hunt, Farm · 39,017 reviews · 79% positive · Simulation
7. Wartales · 31,273 reviews · 86% positive · Adventure
8. Kerbal Space Program 2 · 27,701 reviews · 26% positive · Indie
9. Chants of Sennaar · 27,634 reviews · 98% positive · Adventure
10. Golf It! · 24,433 reviews · 90% positive · Casual
11. Contraband Police · 24,005 reviews · 95% positive · Action
12. My Time at Sandrock · 23,767 reviews · 88% positive · Adventure
13. Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion · 22,371 reviews · 84% positive · Adventure
14. Coral Island · 20,981 reviews · 89% positive · Adventure
15. Sifu · 20,045 reviews · 92% positive · Action
16. The Texas Chain Saw Massacre · 18,971 reviews · 66% positive · Action
17. House Flipper 2 · 18,867 reviews · 87% positive · Action
18. Roboquest · 18,833 reviews · 95% positive · Action
19. Demonologist · 18,497 reviews · 85% positive · Action
20. Trepang2 · 18,167 reviews · 93% 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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