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The best story rich 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 205 story rich indie games on Steam, holding 5,909,956 reviews at an average of 92% 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 Hollow Knight with 487,212 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Hollow Knight · 487,212 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  2. Undertale · 291,708 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  3. Hades · 281,390 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  4. It Takes Two · 212,529 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  5. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 175,110 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  6. Kingdom Come: Deliverance · 139,857 reviews · 84% positive · 2018
  7. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,118 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  8. DAVE THE DIVER · 133,228 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  9. Black Mesa · 132,766 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  10. Inscryption · 131,989 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  11. Celeste · 126,910 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  12. Life is Strange - Episode 1 · 122,835 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  13. Disco Elysium - The Final Cut · 114,846 reviews · 93% positive · 2019
  14. Hades II · 110,845 reviews · 96% positive · 2025
  15. Subnautica: Below Zero · 97,599 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  16. Firewatch · 91,738 reviews · 91% positive · 2016
  17. This War of Mine · 88,718 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  18. Outer Wilds · 85,365 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  19. GRIS · 82,444 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  20. OMORI · 78,151 reviews · 97% positive · 2020

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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