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The best historical 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 54 historical indie games on Steam, holding 1,043,177 reviews at an average of 86% 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 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with 228,008 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 228,008 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  2. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 142,335 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  3. Hell Let Loose · 98,860 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  4. MORDHAU · 91,668 reviews · 80% positive · 2019
  5. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,111 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  6. Medieval Dynasty · 42,518 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  7. Banished · 37,798 reviews · 90% positive · 2014
  8. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,431 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  9. Return of the Obra Dinn · 34,743 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun · 30,746 reviews · 96% positive · 2016
  11. Five Nights at Freddy's 2 · 23,623 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  12. Dawn of Man · 17,790 reviews · 87% positive · 2019
  13. Turmoil · 16,052 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  14. Murders on the Yangtze River · 15,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  15. Isonzo · 14,261 reviews · 83% positive · 2022
  16. War of Rights · 13,308 reviews · 88% positive · 2018
  17. Easy Red 2 · 13,105 reviews · 90% positive · 2022
  18. Yes, Your Grace · 12,387 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  19. Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey · 9,605 reviews · 79% positive · 2020
  20. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,264 reviews · 89% positive · 2017

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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