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The best futuristic 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 44 futuristic indie games on Steam, holding 411,512 reviews at an average of 87% 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 Beat Saber with 76,160 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Beat Saber · 76,160 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  2. Bright Memory: Infinite · 39,795 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  3. Clone Drone in the Danger Zone · 39,000 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  4. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · 32,565 reviews · 88% positive · 2023
  5. VTOL VR · 19,728 reviews · 98% positive · 2017
  6. The Ascent · 18,817 reviews · 74% positive · 2021
  7. SpaceEngine · 15,358 reviews · 96% positive · 2019
  8. Breathedge · 14,366 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  9. Nodebuster · 13,935 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  10. Cloudpunk · 13,617 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  11. shapez 2 - Factory · 13,482 reviews · 97% positive · 2026
  12. Bomb Rush Cyberfunk · 12,468 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  13. Planetary Annihilation: TITANS · 11,348 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  14. Natural Selection 2 · 8,618 reviews · 85% positive · 2012
  15. Citizen Sleeper · 8,116 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  16. COCOON · 7,770 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  17. ANNO: Mutationem · 5,805 reviews · 81% positive · 2022
  18. Space Engineers 2 · 5,104 reviews · 75% positive · 2025
  19. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist · 4,738 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  20. Silica · 4,399 reviews · 76% 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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