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The best dark fantasy 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 104 dark fantasy indie games on Steam, holding 7,646,505 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 Black Myth: Wukong with 873,233 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Black Myth: Wukong · 873,233 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  2. ELDEN RING · 819,932 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  3. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt · 817,822 reviews · 97% positive · 2015
  4. Baldur's Gate 3 · 741,766 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  5. Hollow Knight · 488,027 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  6. DARK SOULS™ III · 276,093 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  7. Sekiro™: Shadows Die Twice - GOTY Edition · 254,465 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  8. Vampire Survivors · 249,099 reviews · 98% positive · 2022
  9. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 175,532 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  10. Path of Exile 2 · 160,226 reviews · 74% positive · 2024
  11. Dead Cells · 153,775 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  12. Darkest Dungeon® · 138,565 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  13. Warhammer 40,000: Darktide · 104,410 reviews · 71% positive · 2022
  14. DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED · 97,883 reviews · 92% positive · 2018
  15. Warhammer: Vermintide 2 · 90,438 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  16. Grim Dawn · 89,553 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  17. Total War: WARHAMMER II · 87,783 reviews · 93% positive · 2017
  18. Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ · 86,542 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  19. DARK SOULS™ II: Scholar of the First Sin · 82,305 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  20. The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings Enhanced Edition · 80,847 reviews · 90% positive · 2012

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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