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The best violent 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 110 violent indie games on Steam, holding 2,413,205 reviews at an average of 87% 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 People Playground with 295,783 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. People Playground · 295,783 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  2. POSTAL 2 · 116,084 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  3. Hotline Miami · 108,002 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. Last Epoch · 106,434 reviews · 77% positive · 2024
  5. A Way Out · 101,832 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  6. Hell Let Loose · 98,860 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  7. SCUM · 97,724 reviews · 74% positive · 2025
  8. Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number · 68,626 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  9. DEVOUR · 68,416 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  10. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice · 66,550 reviews · 90% positive · 2017
  11. Katana ZERO · 65,934 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  12. Blade and Sorcery · 58,686 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  13. Outlast 2 · 53,671 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  14. Blasphemous · 53,558 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  15. SUPERHOT · 40,528 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  16. Bright Memory: Infinite · 39,795 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  17. Graveyard Keeper · 39,086 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  18. Pavlov · 37,829 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  19. Bendy and the Ink Machine · 36,393 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  20. BONEWORKS · 36,390 reviews · 92% positive · 2019

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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