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The best interactive fiction 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 25 interactive fiction indie games on Steam, holding 279,268 reviews at an average of 94% 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 The Henry Stickmin Collection with 53,634 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Henry Stickmin Collection · 53,634 reviews · 99% positive · 2020
  2. LoveChoice · 31,951 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  3. Doki Doki Literature Club Plus! · 28,975 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  4. Sally Face - Episode One · 24,760 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  5. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension · 23,514 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  6. Before Your Eyes · 20,416 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  7. Little Misfortune · 13,732 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  8. Our Life: Beginnings & Always · 13,507 reviews · 99% positive · 2020
  9. Coffee Talk · 12,334 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  10. The Roottrees are Dead · 8,578 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  11. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami · 6,524 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  12. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood · 5,986 reviews · 93% positive · 2023
  13. Hypnospace Outlaw · 5,430 reviews · 97% positive · 2019
  14. I Was a Teenage Exocolonist · 4,652 reviews · 96% positive · 2022
  15. KARMA: The Dark World · 4,363 reviews · 92% positive · 2025
  16. The Rise of the Golden Idol · 3,944 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  17. Love Curse: Find Your Soulmate · 3,123 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  18. This Bed We Made · 3,070 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  19. Coffee Talk Episode 2: Hibiscus & Butterfly · 2,707 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  20. Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping · 2,614 reviews · 97% 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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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