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The best interactive fiction 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 53 interactive fiction indie games on Steam, holding 559,975 reviews at an average of 92% 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 To the Moon with 69,475 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. To the Moon · 69,475 reviews · 96% positive · 2012
  2. The Henry Stickmin Collection · 55,671 reviews · 99% positive · 2020
  3. LoveChoice · 32,335 reviews · 92% positive · 2021
  4. Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk · 31,753 reviews · 96% 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. Sally Face - Episode One · 27,241 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  8. There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension · 24,113 reviews · 98% positive · 2020
  9. Before Your Eyes · 21,189 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  10. Gorogoa · 19,132 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
  11. Until Then · 15,584 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  12. Little Misfortune · 14,139 reviews · 92% positive · 2019
  13. Gone Home · 13,616 reviews · 77% positive · 2013
  14. Coffee Talk · 11,254 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  15. Donut County · 11,014 reviews · 92% positive · 2018
  16. Suzerain · 10,521 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  17. Not For Broadcast · 10,318 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  18. The Roottrees are Dead · 9,035 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  19. Orwell: Keeping an Eye On You · 8,930 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  20. Hobo: Tough Life · 8,653 reviews · 84% positive · 2021

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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