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Top indie games of 2026, 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 441 indie games released in 2026, holding 1,668,928 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 Palworld with 379,930 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Palworld · 379,930 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  2. Slay the Spire 2 · 201,685 reviews · 60% positive · Indie
  3. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,109 reviews · 66% positive · Adventure
  4. Mewgenics · 48,084 reviews · 90% positive · Adventure
  5. TBH: Task Bar Hero · 41,933 reviews · 53% positive · Casual
  6. Timberborn · 37,775 reviews · 96% positive · Indie
  7. Far Far West · 29,398 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  8. Half Sword · 27,468 reviews · 71% positive · Action
  9. GROUND BRANCH · 21,801 reviews · 86% positive · Action
  10. BidKing · 21,674 reviews · 33% positive · Casual
  11. Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! · 20,723 reviews · 95% positive · Casual
  12. Soulmask · 18,144 reviews · 77% positive · Adventure
  13. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors · 17,868 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  14. Cairn · 17,357 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  15. Going Medieval · 16,830 reviews · 89% positive · Indie
  16. The Spell Brigade · 16,217 reviews · 81% positive · Action
  17. MOUSE: P.I. For Hire · 14,490 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  18. Gamble With Your Friends · 14,458 reviews · 90% positive · Adventure
  19. Scritchy Scratchy · 13,741 reviews · 94% positive · Casual
  20. shapez 2 - Factory · 13,482 reviews · 97% positive · Casual

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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