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The best adventure indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-10-23. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 4074 adventure indie games on Steam, holding 28,990,004 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 1,247,686 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Terraria · 1,247,686 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
  2. Rust · 1,176,471 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  3. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 791,517 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  4. ARK: Survival Evolved · 588,535 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  5. The Forest · 583,870 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. Hollow Knight · 507,072 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  7. Valheim · 475,018 reviews · 93% positive · 2026
  8. Palworld · 416,579 reviews · 95% positive · 2026
  9. Lethal Company · 411,982 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  10. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 390,185 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  11. Don't Starve Together · 377,538 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  12. Project Zomboid · 370,897 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  13. Ready or Not · 350,242 reviews · 79% positive · 2023
  14. Subnautica · 343,137 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  15. Raft · 324,860 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  16. Sons Of The Forest · 323,531 reviews · 88% positive · 2024
  17. No Man's Sky · 310,268 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  18. PEAK · 308,981 reviews · 94% positive · 2025
  19. 7 Days to Die · 280,377 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  20. Satisfactory · 236,679 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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