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Top indie games of 2025, 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 1267 indie games released in 2025, holding 4,396,084 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 Hollow Knight: Silksong with 390,185 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 390,185 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  2. PEAK · 308,981 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  3. Schedule I · 292,987 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 178,402 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  5. Dispatch · 176,237 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  6. Escape the Backrooms · 139,737 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  7. DELTARUNE · 127,974 reviews · 98% positive · Indie
  8. Hades II · 115,411 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  9. My Summer Car · 109,459 reviews · 95% positive · Indie
  10. Megabonk · 101,322 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  11. SCUM · 98,968 reviews · 74% positive · Action
  12. Escape From Duckov · 84,344 reviews · 85% positive · Action
  13. Supermarket Simulator · 79,802 reviews · 92% positive · Casual
  14. RV There Yet? · 76,248 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  15. Slime Rancher 2 · 44,063 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  16. REMATCH · 42,457 reviews · 69% positive · Action
  17. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon · 34,134 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  18. Wobbly Life · 33,608 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  19. Magical Girl Witch Trials · 30,681 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  20. No, I'm not a Human · 27,915 reviews · 93% 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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