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The best dystopian 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 34 dystopian indie games on Steam, holding 488,298 reviews at an average of 89% 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 Stray with 155,602 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Stray · 155,602 reviews · 97% positive · 2022
  2. Papers, Please · 79,788 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  3. SANABI · 41,177 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  4. AI LIMIT · 36,221 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  5. Beholder · 22,948 reviews · 92% positive · 2016
  6. The Ascent · 18,817 reviews · 74% positive · 2021
  7. Hacknet · 16,782 reviews · 94% positive · 2015
  8. We Happy Few · 11,176 reviews · 77% positive · 2018
  9. DYSMANTLE · 10,967 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  10. Not For Broadcast · 10,227 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  11. Iron Lung · 10,017 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  12. Pathologic 2 · 9,474 reviews · 2019
  13. Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You · 8,875 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  14. Citizen Sleeper · 8,116 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  15. Beholder 2 · 6,782 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  16. Brigador: Up-Armored Edition · 5,788 reviews · 93% positive · 2016
  17. Beholder: Conductor · 4,703 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
  18. KARMA: The Dark World · 4,480 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
  19. Metal Garden · 4,118 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  20. Peripeteia · 2,926 reviews · 86% 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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