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The best action-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 77 action-adventure indie games on Steam, holding 2,193,044 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 Lethal Company with 409,614 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  2. Schedule I · 275,336 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  3. It Takes Two · 212,497 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  4. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,102 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  5. Escape the Backrooms · 117,078 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  6. Noita · 79,583 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  7. A Way Out · 76,189 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  8. INSIDE · 68,249 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  9. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach · 64,363 reviews · 86% positive · 2021
  10. Party Animals · 56,574 reviews · 80% positive · 2023
  11. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,426 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. Little Nightmares II · 49,174 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  13. Poppy Playtime · 38,264 reviews · 88% positive · 2021
  14. Nine Sols · 36,717 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  15. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 34,987 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  16. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 29,466 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  17. Chants of Sennaar · 27,634 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  18. Contraband Police · 24,005 reviews · 95% positive · 2023
  19. AI LIMIT · 21,959 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  20. Sifu · 20,045 reviews · 92% positive · 2023

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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