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The best action roguelike indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-06-13. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 68 action roguelike indie games on Steam, holding 2,569,908 reviews at an average of 90% 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 The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth with 358,838 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 358,838 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  2. Hades · 281,617 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  3. Vampire Survivors · 249,099 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  4. Risk of Rain 2 · 236,998 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  5. Dead Cells · 153,775 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  6. Hades II · 111,058 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  7. Cult of the Lamb · 107,337 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  8. Gunfire Reborn · 88,047 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  9. Noita · 79,689 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  10. Enter the Gungeon · 78,499 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  11. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,456 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. The Binding of Isaac · 48,753 reviews · 95% positive · 2011
  13. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 38,714 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  14. Hero Siege · 35,933 reviews · 67% positive · 2014
  15. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 35,288 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  16. Halls of Torment · 31,469 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  17. Risk of Rain (2013) · 29,811 reviews · 93% positive · 2013
  18. 20 Minutes Till Dawn · 28,846 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  19. Sifu · 26,953 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  20. Soulstone Survivors · 26,425 reviews · 91% positive · 2025

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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