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Top indie games of 2026, by Steam reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 1490 indie games released in 2026, holding 3,108,753 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 Valheim with 475,018 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Valheim · 475,018 reviews · 93% positive · Action
  2. Palworld · 416,579 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  3. Slay the Spire 2 · 213,688 reviews · 61% positive · Indie
  4. Scrap Mechanic · 109,847 reviews · 92% positive · Action
  5. Enshrouded · 97,083 reviews · 86% positive · Action
  6. How to Fish · 74,491 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  7. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,710 reviews · 65% positive · Adventure
  8. Mewgenics · 51,045 reviews · 90% positive · Adventure
  9. Timberborn · 39,201 reviews · 96% positive · Indie
  10. Fields of Mistria · 33,196 reviews · 97% positive · Indie
  11. Far Far West · 32,288 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  12. Half Sword · 29,815 reviews · 73% positive · Action
  13. Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! · 25,923 reviews · 94% positive · Casual
  14. GROUND BRANCH · 22,494 reviews · 84% positive · Action
  15. BidKing · 22,352 reviews · 32% positive · Casual
  16. Gamble With Your Friends · 21,615 reviews · 90% positive · Adventure
  17. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors · 18,973 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  18. Cairn · 18,871 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  19. Soulmask · 18,568 reviews · 77% positive · Adventure
  20. No More Room in Hell 2 · 17,590 reviews · 57% 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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