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Top indie games of 2025, by Steam reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 677 indie games released in 2025, holding 4,217,017 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 380,613 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 · 380,613 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  2. Schedule I · 282,319 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  3. PEAK · 275,522 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  4. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 178,402 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  5. Dispatch · 171,317 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  6. Escape the Backrooms · 130,040 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  7. DELTARUNE · 114,321 reviews · 98% positive · Indie
  8. Hades II · 112,612 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  9. My Summer Car · 106,838 reviews · 95% positive · Indie
  10. Megabonk · 98,566 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  11. SCUM · 97,724 reviews · 74% positive · Action
  12. Escape From Duckov · 83,076 reviews · 84% positive · Action
  13. Supermarket Simulator · 78,530 reviews · 92% positive · Casual
  14. RV There Yet? · 69,701 reviews · 90% positive · Action
  15. Slime Rancher 2 · 42,849 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  16. REMATCH · 38,288 reviews · 69% positive · Action
  17. AI LIMIT · 36,221 reviews · 92% positive · Action
  18. Wobbly Life · 34,971 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  19. Magical Girl Witch Trials · 32,736 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  20. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon · 31,949 reviews · 88% 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 estimates, not official sales data.

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