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The best board game 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 28 board game indie games on Steam, holding 321,067 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 Liar's Bar with 47,914 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Liar's Bar · 47,914 reviews · 90% positive · 2024
  2. Tabletop Simulator · 47,890 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  3. Pummel Party · 45,549 reviews · 89% positive · 2018
  4. For The King · 30,787 reviews · 88% positive · 2018
  5. Dorfromantik · 27,093 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  6. Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes · 16,858 reviews · 97% positive · 2015
  7. 100% Orange Juice · 14,738 reviews · 91% positive · 2014
  8. Warhammer 40,000: Mechanicus · 14,371 reviews · 91% positive · 2018
  9. 5D Chess With Multiverse Time Travel · 8,862 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  10. Ultimate General: Civil War · 8,476 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  11. The Jackbox Party Pack 3 · 6,613 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  12. SUPREMACY: WORLD WAR 3 · 5,907 reviews · 75% positive · 2018
  13. Guilty as Sock! · 5,405 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  14. Root · 5,323 reviews · 90% positive · 2020
  15. TaleSpire · 5,134 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  16. The Jackbox Party Pack 7 · 4,893 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  17. The Jackbox Party Pack 4 · 3,388 reviews · 95% positive · 2017
  18. The Jackbox Party Pack 6 · 3,073 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  19. Drop Duchy · 2,935 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  20. The Jackbox Party Pack 5 · 2,889 reviews · 93% positive · 2018

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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