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The best board game 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 34 board game indie games on Steam, holding 362,364 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 Tabletop Simulator with 74,870 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Tabletop Simulator · 74,870 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  2. Liar's Bar · 48,875 reviews · 89% positive · 2024
  3. Pummel Party · 46,320 reviews · 89% positive · 2018
  4. For The King · 43,939 reviews · 88% positive · 2018
  5. Dorfromantik · 27,514 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  6. 100% Orange Juice · 14,805 reviews · 91% positive · 2014
  7. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes · 14,377 reviews · 97% positive · 2015
  8. For The King II · 12,839 reviews · 71% positive · 2023
  9. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,347 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  10. 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel · 8,142 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  11. The Jackbox Party Pack 3 · 6,682 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  12. Talisman: Digital Classic Edition · 5,565 reviews · 78% positive · 2014
  13. Hand of Fate 2 · 5,291 reviews · 84% positive · 2017
  14. Root · 5,114 reviews · 90% positive · 2020
  15. Guilty as Sock! · 4,699 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  16. TaleSpire · 4,412 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  17. Niche - a genetics survival game · 4,361 reviews · 86% positive · 2017
  18. The Jackbox Party Pack 7 · 4,013 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  19. Drop Duchy · 3,005 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  20. The Jackbox Party Pack 4 · 2,484 reviews · 95% positive · 2017

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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