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Top indie games of 2023, 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 681 indie games released in 2023, holding 3,428,648 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 411,982 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Lethal Company · 411,982 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  2. Ready or Not · 350,242 reviews · 79% positive · Action
  3. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 224,932 reviews · 56% positive · Action
  4. DAVE THE DIVER · 139,867 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  5. Brotato · 120,031 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  6. ARK: Survival Ascended · 108,360 reviews · 60% positive · Action
  7. Party Animals · 79,954 reviews · 80% positive · Action
  8. Pizza Tower · 66,697 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  9. Barotrauma · 62,346 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  10. DREDGE · 46,565 reviews · 96% positive · Adventure
  11. Volcano Princess · 45,236 reviews · 98% positive · Casual
  12. SANABI · 42,009 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  13. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE · 39,381 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  14. Wandering Sword · 37,559 reviews · 95% positive · Adventure
  15. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · 34,401 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  16. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut · 32,619 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  17. Wartales · 32,465 reviews · 85% positive · Adventure
  18. Chants of Sennaar · 31,306 reviews · 98% positive · Adventure
  19. Golf It! · 31,176 reviews · 90% positive · Casual
  20. Kerbal Space Program 2 · 27,998 reviews · 26% 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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