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The best choose your own adventure indie games, ranked by reviews

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Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 49 choose your own adventure indie games on Steam, holding 891,011 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 People Playground with 295,783 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. People Playground · 295,783 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  2. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 189,933 reviews · 56% positive · 2023
  3. FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,406 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  4. The Henry Stickmin Collection · 54,942 reviews · 99% positive · 2020
  5. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut · 30,884 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  6. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! · 29,497 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  7. Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion · 22,637 reviews · 84% positive · 2023
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always · 13,631 reviews · 99% positive · 2020
  9. Yes, Your Grace · 12,387 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  10. Suzerain · 11,614 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  11. Amazing Frog? · 11,095 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  12. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante · 10,915 reviews · 89% positive · 2021
  13. Cultist Simulator · 10,623 reviews · 80% positive · 2018
  14. Not For Broadcast · 10,227 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  15. Class of '09 · 8,360 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  16. WitchSpring R · 8,103 reviews · 96% positive · 2023
  17. Death and Taxes · 7,758 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  18. THE LONGING · 6,918 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  19. Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp · 6,118 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  20. Long Live The Queen · 5,820 reviews · 95% positive · 2013

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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