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The best first-person 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 228 first-person indie games on Steam, holding 12,624,964 reviews at an average of 88% 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 Rust with 1,140,437 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Rust · 1,140,437 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  2. Garry's Mod · 1,070,495 reviews · 97% positive · 2006
  3. Wallpaper Engine · 914,881 reviews · 98% positive · 2018
  4. Phasmophobia · 676,875 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  5. ARK: Survival Evolved · 579,234 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
  6. The Forest · 570,988 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  7. Unturned · 563,169 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  8. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  9. Subnautica · 331,738 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  10. Raft · 318,148 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  11. No Man's Sky · 307,436 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
  12. Schedule I · 275,336 reviews · 98% positive · 2025
  13. Satisfactory · 228,423 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  14. Kingdom Come: Deliverance · 139,812 reviews · 84% positive · 2018
  15. Slime Rancher · 136,310 reviews · 98% positive · 2017
  16. Mount & Blade: Warband · 134,572 reviews · 98% positive · 2010
  17. Assetto Corsa · 132,768 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  18. Black Mesa · 132,752 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  19. Inscryption · 131,971 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  20. Teardown · 121,921 reviews · 96% positive · 2022

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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