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Top indie games of 2022, by Steam reviews

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

indielist tracks 323 indie games released in 2022, holding 2,896,812 Steam reviews combined. This list ranks them by review count, the most reliable public proxy for sales, and links each to a white-box sales estimate you can open and check. The leader is Raft with 321,118 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Raft · 321,118 reviews · 93% positive · Adventure
  2. Vampire Survivors · 264,182 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  3. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 228,008 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  4. Stray · 155,602 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  5. Teardown · 124,486 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  6. Cult of the Lamb · 109,350 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  7. NEEDY STREAMER OVERLOAD · 53,192 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
  8. PowerWash Simulator · 50,621 reviews · 96% positive · Casual
  9. Foxhole · 46,783 reviews · 80% positive · Action
  10. Stranded Deep · 43,449 reviews · 74% positive · Adventure
  11. Backrooms: Escape Together · 39,888 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  12. Inside the Backrooms · 38,624 reviews · 80% positive · Adventure
  13. Potion Craft: Alchemist Simulator · 37,431 reviews · 93% positive · Indie
  14. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe · 35,557 reviews · 94% positive · Adventure
  15. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,120 reviews · 93% positive · Action
  16. 嗜血印 Bloody Spell · 33,572 reviews · 89% positive · Action
  17. Temtem · 31,277 reviews · 81% positive · Adventure
  18. Path Of Wuxia · 30,377 reviews · 78% positive · Indie
  19. SIGNALIS · 29,868 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  20. Dwarf Fortress · 29,106 reviews · 95% positive · Indie

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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