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The best beat 'em up indie games, ranked by reviews

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

indielist tracks 21 beat 'em up indie games on Steam, holding 367,847 reviews at an average of 90% positive. This list ranks them by Steam review count, the most reliable public sales proxy, with a white-box sales estimate behind every title. The most reviewed is Castle Crashers® with 108,726 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Castle Crashers® · 108,726 reviews · 96% positive · 2012
  2. Gang Beasts · 54,233 reviews · 86% positive · 2017
  3. Rivals of Aether · 33,092 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  4. Paint the Town Red · 28,970 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  5. Sifu · 28,008 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  6. Streets of Rage 4 · 17,162 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  7. Another Crab's Treasure · 16,488 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  8. Dust: An Elysian Tail · 14,226 reviews · 95% positive · 2013
  9. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Shredder's Revenge · 12,851 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  10. Furi · 11,163 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  11. Road Redemption · 10,812 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  12. Lost Castle 2 · 10,288 reviews · 78% positive · 2026
  13. En Garde! · 4,072 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  14. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Splintered Fate · 3,924 reviews · 83% positive · 2024
  15. Gravity Circuit · 2,969 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  16. Charlie Murder · 2,583 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  17. Midnight Fight Express · 1,960 reviews · 89% positive · 2022
  18. Spark the Electric Jester 3 · 1,904 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  19. Clash: Artifacts of Chaos · 1,548 reviews · 90% positive · 2023
  20. Fraymakers · 1,541 reviews · 80% positive · 2023

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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