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The best rogue-like 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 155 rogue-like indie games on Steam, holding 4,400,308 reviews at an average of 89% 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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth with 393,010 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  2. Don't Starve Together · 373,459 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  3. Hades · 283,755 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  4. Vampire Survivors · 264,182 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  5. Risk of Rain 2 · 238,509 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  6. Slay the Spire · 191,572 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  7. Balatro · 158,089 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  8. Dead Cells · 155,034 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  9. Darkest Dungeon® · 139,306 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  10. Inscryption · 133,769 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  11. Don't Starve · 113,208 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  12. Hades II · 112,612 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  13. Buckshot Roulette · 107,163 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  14. Gunfire Reborn · 88,330 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  15. Noita · 80,410 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  16. Enter the Gungeon · 79,041 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  17. FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,406 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  18. The Scroll of Taiwu : Beyond The Dome · 56,109 reviews · 66% positive · 2026
  19. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 55,747 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  20. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,641 reviews · 93% positive · 2021

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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