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The best investigation 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 26 investigation indie games on Steam, holding 835,297 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 Phasmophobia with 676,875 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Phasmophobia · 676,875 reviews · 95% positive · 2020
  2. Demonologist · 18,497 reviews · 85% positive · 2023
  3. We Were Here Together · 17,431 reviews · 82% positive · 2019
  4. Escape Simulator · 16,259 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
  5. Blue Prince · 16,088 reviews · 87% positive · 2025
  6. The Forgotten City · 13,222 reviews · 96% positive · 2021
  7. We Were Here Too · 10,985 reviews · 79% positive · 2018
  8. Back to the Dawn · 10,078 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  9. The Roottrees are Dead · 8,578 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  10. Duck Detective: The Secret Salami · 6,524 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  11. Tangle Tower · 6,119 reviews · 95% positive · 2019
  12. Call of the Sea · 6,105 reviews · 88% positive · 2020
  13. The Rise of the Golden Idol · 3,944 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  14. At Dead Of Night · 3,443 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  15. NORCO · 3,106 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
  16. This Bed We Made · 3,070 reviews · 91% positive · 2023
  17. Duck Detective: The Ghost of Glamping · 2,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  18. Darkest Dungeon®: The Crimson Court · 2,346 reviews · 62% positive · 2017
  19. Dreamcore · 1,718 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
  20. Obenseuer · 1,619 reviews · 94% positive · 2018

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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