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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 2026-09-07. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 49 choose your own adventure indie games on Steam, holding 882,102 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 297,818 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. People Playground · 297,818 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  2. 鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal · 190,126 reviews · 56% positive · 2023
  3. FTL: Faster Than Light · 62,676 reviews · 95% positive · 2012
  4. The Henry Stickmin Collection · 55,671 reviews · 99% positive · 2020
  5. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut · 31,618 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  6. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! · 30,074 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  7. Hero's Adventure: Road to Passion · 24,841 reviews · 84% positive · 2023
  8. Yes, Your Grace · 12,541 reviews · 87% positive · 2020
  9. Amazing Frog? · 11,157 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  10. Cultist Simulator · 10,764 reviews · 80% positive · 2018
  11. Suzerain · 10,521 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  12. Not For Broadcast · 10,318 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  13. Class of '09 · 8,505 reviews · 95% positive · 2021
  14. WitchSpring R · 8,201 reviews · 96% positive · 2023
  15. The Life and Suffering of Sir Brante · 8,130 reviews · 88% positive · 2021
  16. Death and Taxes · 7,839 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  17. THE LONGING · 6,967 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  18. Monster Prom 2: Monster Camp · 6,137 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  19. Long Live The Queen · 5,833 reviews · 95% positive · 2013
  20. Space Engineers 2 · 5,529 reviews · 75% positive · 2025

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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