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The best gore 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 126 gore indie games on Steam, holding 3,992,842 reviews at an average of 88% 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 Forest with 577,971 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Forest · 577,971 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 393,010 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  3. People Playground · 295,783 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  4. Black Mesa · 133,917 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  5. POSTAL 2 · 116,084 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  6. Hotline Miami · 108,002 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  7. Last Epoch · 106,434 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  8. Outlast · 103,251 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  9. Hell Let Loose · 98,860 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  10. SCUM · 97,724 reviews · 74% positive · 2025
  11. MORDHAU · 91,668 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  12. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 · 90,682 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  13. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 68,626 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  14. DEVOUR · 68,416 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  15. Katana ZERO · 65,934 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  16. Blade and Sorcery · 58,686 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  17. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 55,747 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  18. Outlast 2 · 53,671 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  19. Blasphemous · 53,558 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  20. SOMA · 52,031 reviews · 96% positive · 2015

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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