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The best war 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 54 war indie games on Steam, holding 2,098,919 reviews at an average of 85% 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 Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord with 225,505 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord · 225,505 reviews · 88% positive · 2022
  2. Totally Accurate Battle Simulator · 140,808 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  3. BattleBit Remastered · 127,516 reviews · 82% positive · 2023
  4. FOR HONOR™ · 106,181 reviews · 69% positive · 2017
  5. Insurgency: Sandstorm · 103,362 reviews · 85% positive · 2018
  6. Hell Let Loose · 97,969 reviews · 82% positive · 2021
  7. Crusader Kings III · 94,491 reviews · 90% positive · 2020
  8. This War of Mine · 88,747 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  9. Total War: WARHAMMER II · 87,783 reviews · 93% positive · 2017
  10. Middle-earth™: Shadow of War™ · 86,542 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  11. XCOM® 2 · 78,860 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  12. Ravenfield · 75,450 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  13. Pizza Tower · 65,366 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  14. Black Desert · 62,224 reviews · 74% positive · 2017
  15. Mad Max · 56,749 reviews · 92% positive · 2015
  16. Total War: WARHAMMER · 52,238 reviews · 78% positive · 2016
  17. Foxhole · 46,429 reviews · 80% positive · 2022
  18. Crosshair X · 39,907 reviews · 93% positive · 2020
  19. DYNASTY WARRIORS: ORIGINS · 29,259 reviews · 93% positive · 2025
  20. Battle Brothers · 27,628 reviews · 88% positive · 2017

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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