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The best first-person 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 231 first-person indie games on Steam, holding 12,156,615 reviews at an average of 89% 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 Rust with 1,140,888 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Rust · 1,140,888 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  2. Garry's Mod · 1,070,685 reviews · 97% positive · 2006
  3. Wallpaper Engine · 915,147 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  4. Phasmophobia · 676,967 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  5. ARK: Survival Evolved · 579,335 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  6. The Forest · 571,186 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  7. Lethal Company · 409,659 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  8. Subnautica · 332,025 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  9. Raft · 318,202 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  10. No Man's Sky · 307,639 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  11. Schedule I · 275,473 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  12. Satisfactory · 228,559 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  13. Kingdom Come: Deliverance · 139,857 reviews · 84% positive · 2018
  14. Slime Rancher · 136,353 reviews · 98% positive · 2017
  15. Mount & Blade: Warband · 134,583 reviews · 98% positive · 2010
  16. Assetto Corsa · 132,788 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  17. Black Mesa · 132,766 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  18. Inscryption · 131,989 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  19. Teardown · 121,964 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  20. Escape the Backrooms · 117,480 reviews · 90% 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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