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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 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 130 action-adventure indie games on Steam, holding 2,493,229 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 410,693 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Lethal Company · 410,693 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  2. Schedule I · 282,319 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  3. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 189,933 reviews · 56% positive · 2023
  4. Poppy Playtime · 140,634 reviews · 88% positive · 2021
  5. Escape the Backrooms · 130,040 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  6. A Way Out · 101,832 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  7. Noita · 80,410 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  8. INSIDE · 75,132 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  9. Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice · 66,550 reviews · 90% positive · 2017
  10. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach · 64,846 reviews · 86% positive · 2021
  11. Party Animals · 57,249 reviews · 80% positive · 2023
  12. Skul: The Hero Slayer · 50,641 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  13. SANABI · 41,177 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  14. Nine Sols · 38,583 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  15. AI LIMIT · 36,221 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  16. BlazBlue Entropy Effect · 35,648 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  17. 暖雪 Warm Snow · 35,120 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  18. Chants of Sennaar · 29,011 reviews · 98% positive · 2023
  19. Sifu · 28,008 reviews · 92% positive · 2023
  20. Death's Door · 18,954 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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