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Top indie games of 2023, 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 380 indie games released in 2023, holding 3,189,208 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 Lethal Company with 410,693 reviews. Review counts are from Steam; sales figures are estimates, not official, and every estimate expands into its full formula.

The ranking

  1. Lethal Company · 410,693 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  2. Ready or Not · 260,220 reviews · 78% positive · Action
  3. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 189,933 reviews · 56% positive · Action
  4. DAVE THE DIVER · 139,867 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  5. Brotato · 109,530 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  6. ARK: Survival Ascended · 102,965 reviews · 60% positive · Action
  7. Pizza Tower · 65,867 reviews · 98% positive · Action
  8. Barotrauma · 60,894 reviews · 94% positive · Action
  9. Party Animals · 57,249 reviews · 80% positive · Action
  10. DREDGE · 46,565 reviews · 96% positive · Adventure
  11. Volcano Princess · 44,582 reviews · 98% positive · Casual
  12. SANABI · 41,177 reviews · 97% positive · Action
  13. Your Only Move Is HUSTLE · 37,595 reviews · 96% positive · Action
  14. Wandering Sword · 35,779 reviews · 95% positive · Adventure
  15. Wartales · 35,315 reviews · 86% positive · Adventure
  16. Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader · 32,565 reviews · 88% positive · Action
  17. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut · 30,884 reviews · 97% positive · Adventure
  18. Chants of Sennaar · 29,011 reviews · 98% positive · Adventure
  19. Sifu · 28,008 reviews · 92% positive · Action
  20. Kerbal Space Program 2 · 27,818 reviews · 26% 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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