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The best atmospheric 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 270 atmospheric indie games on Steam, holding 12,230,882 reviews at an average of 90% 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. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 766,107 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  3. The Forest · 570,988 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  4. Unturned · 563,169 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  5. Hollow Knight · 487,097 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  6. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  7. Don't Starve Together · 367,165 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  8. The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth · 357,988 reviews · 97% positive · 2014
  9. Subnautica · 331,738 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. No Man's Sky · 307,436 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  11. Hades · 281,339 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  12. It Takes Two · 212,497 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  13. Dead Cells · 153,647 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  14. Stray · 153,072 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
  15. Kingdom Come: Deliverance · 139,812 reviews · 84% positive · 2018
  16. Darkest Dungeon® · 138,477 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  17. Ori and the Will of the Wisps · 134,102 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  18. Black Mesa · 132,752 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  19. Celeste · 126,861 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  20. Life is Strange - Episode 1 · 122,787 reviews · 96% positive · 2015

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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