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The best lore-rich 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 16 lore-rich indie games on Steam, holding 435,431 reviews at an average of 85% 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. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,676 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  3. Blasphemous · 51,551 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  4. Super Animal Royale · 44,144 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  5. Poppy Playtime · 38,264 reviews · 88% positive · 2021
  6. No More Room in Hell 2 · 21,000 reviews · 49% positive · 2024
  7. Sea of Stars · 14,486 reviews · 89% positive · 2023
  8. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location · 12,506 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  9. In Stars And Time · 8,378 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  10. Starcom: Unknown Space · 4,322 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  11. Yarimono · 4,083 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
  12. REKA · 3,355 reviews · 83% positive · 2024
  13. Songs of Silence · 2,660 reviews · 81% positive · 2024
  14. Harold Halibut · 1,210 reviews · 82% positive · 2024
  15. Spirit of the North 2 · 1,052 reviews · 86% positive · 2025
  16. Dustborn · 678 reviews · 67% positive · 2024

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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