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The best crafting 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 149 crafting indie games on Steam, holding 10,596,712 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 Rust with 1,383,303 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Rust · 1,383,303 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  2. Terraria · 1,227,439 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  3. Stardew Valley · 882,604 reviews · 98% positive · 2016
  4. ARK: Survival Evolved · 583,081 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  5. The Forest · 577,971 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. Valheim · 455,972 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  7. Palworld · 379,930 reviews · 94% positive · 2026
  8. Don't Starve Together · 373,459 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  9. Project Zomboid · 350,081 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  10. Subnautica · 338,617 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  11. Raft · 321,118 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  12. No Man's Sky · 310,268 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  13. Schedule I · 282,319 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  14. Satisfactory · 232,215 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  15. Factorio · 193,619 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  16. DAVE THE DIVER · 139,867 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  17. Starbound · 120,624 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  18. ASTRONEER · 118,359 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  19. Don't Starve · 113,208 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  20. The Long Dark · 110,972 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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