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The best platformer 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 101 platformer indie games on Steam, holding 5,312,200 reviews at an average of 92% 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 Terraria with 1,218,154 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,218,154 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Geometry Dash · 561,151 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  3. Hollow Knight · 488,027 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  4. It Takes Two · 212,785 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  5. Cuphead · 189,840 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  6. Tomb Raider Game of the Year · 170,089 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  7. Dead Cells · 153,775 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  8. STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ · 151,076 reviews · 88% positive · 2019
  9. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,276 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  10. Celeste · 127,326 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  11. GRIS · 82,511 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  12. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy · 74,168 reviews · 82% positive · 2017
  13. INSIDE · 68,402 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  14. Katana ZERO · 65,441 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  15. Pizza Tower · 65,366 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  16. BattleBlock Theater® · 55,550 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  17. Little Nightmares · 51,720 reviews · 95% positive · 2017
  18. Blasphemous · 51,690 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  19. Ori and the Blind Forest · 50,579 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  20. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,456 reviews · 93% positive · 2021

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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