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Top indie games of 2025, by Steam reviews

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

indielist tracks 1143 indie games released in 2025, holding 4,402,707 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 386,005 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 · 386,005 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  2. PEAK · 297,046 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  3. Schedule I · 287,984 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 178,402 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  5. Dispatch · 173,939 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  6. Escape the Backrooms · 136,373 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  7. DELTARUNE · 123,174 reviews · 98% positive · Indie
  8. My Summer Car · 117,330 reviews · 95% positive · Indie
  9. Hades II · 114,178 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  10. Escape From Duckov · 104,288 reviews · 84% positive · Action
  11. Megabonk · 99,986 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  12. SCUM · 98,248 reviews · 74% positive · Action
  13. RV There Yet? · 84,256 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  14. Supermarket Simulator · 79,130 reviews · 92% positive · Casual
  15. Slime Rancher 2 · 43,439 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  16. REMATCH · 39,540 reviews · 69% positive · Action
  17. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon · 33,412 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  18. Wobbly Life · 32,842 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  19. Magical Girl Witch Trials · 29,723 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  20. Tiny Bunny · 27,119 reviews · 83% 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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