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The best psychological horror 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 146 psychological horror indie games on Steam, holding 5,066,281 reviews at an average of 90% 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 Phasmophobia with 677,490 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Phasmophobia · 677,490 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  2. Geometry Dash · 561,151 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  3. Lethal Company · 409,883 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  4. People Playground · 293,591 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  5. Undertale · 292,325 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  6. Escape the Backrooms · 119,760 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  7. MiSide · 119,024 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  8. My Summer Car · 105,569 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  9. Buckshot Roulette · 104,873 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  10. Outlast · 101,977 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  11. Outer Wilds · 85,723 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  12. OMORI · 78,236 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  13. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy · 74,168 reviews · 82% positive · 2017
  14. DEVOUR · 68,110 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  15. OneShot · 57,281 reviews · 98% positive · 2016
  16. WEBFISHING · 57,077 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  17. Outlast 2 · 53,135 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  18. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,730 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  19. Little Nightmares · 51,720 reviews · 95% positive · 2017
  20. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 49,892 reviews · 94% positive · 2018

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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