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The best sci-fi 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 161 sci-fi indie games on Steam, holding 7,950,068 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 Cyberpunk 2077 with 854,226 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Cyberpunk 2077 · 854,226 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  2. ARK: Survival Evolved · 579,791 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  3. Lethal Company · 409,883 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  4. Subnautica · 333,593 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  5. No Man's Sky · 308,241 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  6. Fallout 4 · 287,429 reviews · 81% positive · 2015
  7. Satisfactory · 229,323 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  8. Borderlands 2 · 214,807 reviews · 89% positive · 2012
  9. Fallout: New Vegas · 208,574 reviews · 96% positive · 2010
  10. RimWorld · 203,969 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  11. Stray · 153,514 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
  12. STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ · 151,076 reviews · 88% positive · 2019
  13. Black Mesa · 132,882 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  14. Oxygen Not Included · 132,475 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  15. Starbound · 120,582 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  16. ASTRONEER · 117,913 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  17. Kerbal Space Program · 116,508 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  18. Starfield · 113,981 reviews · 57% positive · 2023
  19. NieR:Automata™ · 113,353 reviews · 87% positive · 2017
  20. BioShock Infinite · 108,873 reviews · 93% positive · 2013

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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