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The best third-person shooter 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 38 third-person shooter indie games on Steam, holding 2,081,591 reviews at an average of 84% 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 Palworld with 356,085 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Palworld · 356,085 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  2. Fallout 4 · 287,429 reviews · 81% positive · 2015
  3. Risk of Rain 2 · 236,998 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  4. Tomb Raider Game of the Year · 170,089 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  5. Rise of the Tomb Raider™ · 124,383 reviews · 94% positive · 2016
  6. Just Cause™ 3 · 103,283 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  7. Tom Clancy’s The Division™ · 76,601 reviews · 71% positive · 2016
  8. Mass Effect™ Legendary Edition · 60,149 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  9. Mad Max · 56,749 reviews · 92% positive · 2015
  10. Saints Row: The Third · 48,670 reviews · 96% positive · 2011
  11. Remnant: From the Ashes · 46,666 reviews · 84% positive · 2019
  12. OUTRIDERS · 46,035 reviews · 67% positive · 2021
  13. REMNANT II® · 45,193 reviews · 82% positive · 2023
  14. Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy · 44,376 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  15. Crosshair X · 39,907 reviews · 93% positive · 2020
  16. Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2 · 34,259 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
  17. L.A. Noire · 30,604 reviews · 86% positive · 2011
  18. Hatred · 28,741 reviews · 84% positive · 2015
  19. Aliens: Fireteam Elite · 26,702 reviews · 80% positive · 2021
  20. SurrounDead · 25,078 reviews · 92% positive · 2022

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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