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The best 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 3624 adventure indie games on Steam, holding 28,599,116 reviews at an average of 86% 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 Terraria with 1,238,172 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,238,172 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,165,850 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 783,526 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. The Forest · 681,741 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  5. ARK: Survival Evolved · 586,217 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  6. Hollow Knight · 501,741 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  7. Valheim · 458,539 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  8. Lethal Company · 411,377 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  9. Palworld · 409,299 reviews · 95% positive · 2026
  10. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 386,005 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  11. Subnautica · 379,589 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  12. Don't Starve Together · 375,815 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  13. Project Zomboid · 362,878 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  14. Raft · 323,060 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  15. No Man's Sky · 310,268 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  16. PEAK · 297,046 reviews · 94% positive · 2025
  17. Sons Of The Forest · 282,923 reviews · 88% positive · 2024
  18. 7 Days to Die · 279,128 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  19. Ready or Not · 263,722 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
  20. Satisfactory · 234,628 reviews · 97% positive · 2024

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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