The best jrpg indie games, ranked by reviews

Data report Assembled from live indielist data on 2026-06-06. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 15 jrpg indie games on Steam, holding 351,181 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 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with 175,066 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 175,066 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
2. OMORI · 78,134 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
3. Summer Memories · 23,544 reviews · 93% positive · 2020
4. CrossCode · 18,028 reviews · 93% positive · 2018
5. Sea of Stars · 14,485 reviews · 89% positive · 2023
6. Touhou Hero of Ice Fairy · 8,705 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
7. WitchSpring R · 7,958 reviews · 96% positive · 2023
8. Chained Echoes · 7,885 reviews · 89% positive · 2022
9. Battle Chasers: Nightwar · 7,331 reviews · 87% positive · 2017
10. Yarimono · 4,083 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
11. Endless Alice · 2,079 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
12. Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend · 2,051 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
13. The Use of Life · 767 reviews · 91% positive · 2025
14. Wizardry: The Five Ordeals · 542 reviews · 85% positive · 2023
15. Umineko: Golden Fantasia · 523 reviews · 92% positive · 2017

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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