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Top indie games of 2023, by Steam reviews

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

indielist tracks 614 indie games released in 2023, holding 3,329,169 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 411,377 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 · 411,377 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  2. Ready or Not · 263,722 reviews · 79% positive · Action
  3. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 190,126 reviews · 56% positive · Action
  4. DAVE THE DIVER · 139,867 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  5. Brotato · 110,894 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  6. ARK: Survival Ascended · 105,872 reviews · 60% positive · Action
  7. Eternal Return · 69,673 reviews · 77% positive
  8. Pizza Tower · 66,275 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  9. Barotrauma · 61,733 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  10. Party Animals · 57,706 reviews · 80% positive · Action
  11. DREDGE · 46,565 reviews · 96% positive · Adventure
  12. Volcano Princess · 44,933 reviews · 98% positive · Casual
  13. SANABI · 41,618 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  14. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE · 38,495 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  15. Wandering Sword · 36,858 reviews · 95% positive · Adventure
  16. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · 33,463 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  17. Wartales · 31,921 reviews · 86% positive · Adventure
  18. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut · 31,618 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  19. Chants of Sennaar · 30,079 reviews · 98% positive · Adventure
  20. My Time at Sandrock · 29,004 reviews · 88% positive · Adventure

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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