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The best adventure indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 653 adventure indie games on Steam, holding 19,149,100 reviews at an average of 87% 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 1,216,936 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,216,936 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,140,888 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 766,249 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. ARK: Survival Evolved · 579,335 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  5. The Forest · 571,186 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. Hollow Knight · 487,212 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  7. Valheim · 452,869 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  8. Lethal Company · 409,659 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  9. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 374,403 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  10. Don't Starve Together · 367,214 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  11. Palworld · 355,416 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  12. Project Zomboid · 343,332 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  13. Subnautica · 332,025 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  14. Raft · 318,202 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  15. No Man's Sky · 307,639 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  16. Satisfactory · 228,559 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  17. It Takes Two · 212,529 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  18. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 175,110 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  19. Human Fall Flat · 172,952 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  20. Dispatch · 166,262 reviews · 98% positive · 2025

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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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