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The best narrative 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 29 narrative indie games on Steam, holding 340,036 reviews at an average of 89% 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 INSIDE with 75,854 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. INSIDE · 75,854 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  2. Mouthwashing · 38,625 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  3. Journey · 38,492 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  4. Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon · 33,412 reviews · 88% positive · 2025
  5. Sally Face - Episode One · 27,241 reviews · 97% positive · 2016
  6. Before Your Eyes · 21,189 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  7. Gone Home · 13,616 reviews · 77% positive · 2013
  8. Cultist Simulator · 10,764 reviews · 80% positive · 2018
  9. Suzerain · 10,521 reviews · 92% positive · 2020
  10. Citizen Sleeper · 8,217 reviews · 92% positive · 2022
  11. Death and Taxes · 7,839 reviews · 86% positive · 2020
  12. Twelve Minutes · 7,390 reviews · 73% positive · 2021
  13. The Cosmic Wheel Sisterhood · 6,367 reviews · 93% positive · 2023
  14. BOOK OF HOURS · 4,800 reviews · 89% positive · 2023
  15. Scarlet Hollow · 4,794 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  16. Metal Garden · 4,314 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  17. Epistory - Typing Chronicles · 4,022 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  18. The Rise of the Golden Idol · 3,774 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  19. Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition · 3,235 reviews · 80% positive · 2013
  20. Wanderstop · 2,926 reviews · 93% 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 estimates, not official sales data.

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