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The best action-adventure indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 137 action-adventure indie games on Steam, holding 2,387,205 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 Lethal Company with 411,377 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Lethal Company · 411,377 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  2. Schedule I · 287,984 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  3. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 190,126 reviews · 56% positive · 2023
  4. Escape the Backrooms · 136,373 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  5. Noita · 81,032 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  6. A Way Out · 78,071 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  7. INSIDE · 75,854 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  8. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice · 66,729 reviews · 90% positive · 2017
  9. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach · 65,313 reviews · 86% positive · 2021
  10. Party Animals · 57,706 reviews · 80% positive · 2023
  11. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 57,582 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  12. SANABI · 41,618 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  13. Nine Sols · 39,965 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  14. Poppy Playtime · 38,417 reviews · 88% positive · 2021
  15. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,237 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  16. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 30,361 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  17. Chants of Sennaar · 30,079 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  18. Sifu · 28,731 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  19. AI LIMIT · 22,694 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  20. Death's Door · 22,106 reviews · 93% positive · 2021

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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