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Top indie games of 2026, by Steam reviews

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

indielist tracks 1058 indie games released in 2026, holding 2,296,103 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 409,299 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Palworld · 409,299 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  2. Slay the Spire 2 · 208,458 reviews · 61% positive · Indie
  3. Scrap Mechanic · 109,201 reviews · 92% positive · Action
  4. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,504 reviews · 65% positive · Adventure
  5. Mewgenics · 49,704 reviews · 90% positive · Adventure
  6. TBH: Task Bar Hero · 45,556 reviews · 54% positive · Casual
  7. How to Fish · 40,158 reviews · 95% positive · Action
  8. Timberborn · 38,332 reviews · 96% positive · Indie
  9. Fields of Mistria · 31,264 reviews · 97% positive · Indie
  10. Far Far West · 30,494 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  11. Half Sword · 28,203 reviews · 72% positive · Action
  12. No More Room in Hell 2 · 27,477 reviews · 56% positive · Action
  13. GROUND BRANCH · 24,952 reviews · 84% positive · Action
  14. Librarian: Tidy Up the Arcane Library! · 23,922 reviews · 94% positive · Casual
  15. BidKing · 22,180 reviews · 33% positive · Casual
  16. Vampire Crawlers: The Turbo Wildcard from Vampire Survivors · 18,411 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  17. Soulmask · 18,321 reviews · 77% positive · Adventure
  18. Cairn · 18,080 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  19. Gamble With Your Friends · 17,362 reviews · 90% positive · Adventure
  20. Going Medieval · 16,994 reviews · 89% 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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