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The best 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 650 adventure indie games on Steam, holding 19,695,615 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 Terraria with 1,216,769 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,216,769 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,140,437 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 766,107 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. ARK: Survival Evolved · 579,234 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  5. The Forest · 570,988 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. Unturned · 563,169 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  7. Hollow Knight · 487,097 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  8. Valheim · 452,821 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  9. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  10. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 374,314 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  11. Don't Starve Together · 367,165 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  12. Palworld · 355,335 reviews · 94% positive · 2024
  13. Project Zomboid · 343,212 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  14. Subnautica · 331,738 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  15. Raft · 318,148 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  16. No Man's Sky · 307,436 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  17. Satisfactory · 228,423 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  18. It Takes Two · 212,497 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  19. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 175,066 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  20. Human Fall Flat · 172,948 reviews · 95% positive · 2016

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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