10 Best-Selling Indie Games, According to Leaked Steam Data

Path of Exile

7,634,137 Players

Next up, at an impressive 7.6 million players is Path of Exile by Grinding Gear Games. This game found its Steam release in October of 2013. This one picked up steam (pun intended) a little bit quicker than The Binding of Isaac, growing by over 1.5 million players per year on average. One contributing factor to this may be the game’s free-to-play status, because who doesn’t love free stuff?

An interesting aside is that this game is no longer an indie game, strictly speaking, as Grinding Gear Games was acquired by the Chinese tech-giant Tencent in May of this year. That, perhaps, gives credit to how far the game has truly come as well.