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The best psychological horror 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 117 psychological horror indie games on Steam, holding 4,477,413 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. Geometry Dash · 557,534 reviews · 93% positive · 2014
  3. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  4. People Playground · 293,143 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  5. Undertale · 291,647 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  6. Escape the Backrooms · 117,078 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  7. My Summer Car · 105,334 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  8. Buckshot Roulette · 104,508 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  9. Outlast · 101,554 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  10. Outer Wilds · 85,305 reviews · 96% positive · 2020
  11. OMORI · 78,134 reviews · 97% positive · 2020
  12. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy · 74,104 reviews · 82% positive · 2017
  13. DEVOUR · 68,077 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  14. OneShot · 57,172 reviews · 98% positive · 2016
  15. WEBFISHING · 57,052 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  16. Outlast 2 · 52,979 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  17. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,676 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  18. Little Nightmares · 51,668 reviews · 95% positive · 2017
  19. Lobotomy Corporation | Monster Management Simulation · 49,736 reviews · 94% positive · 2018
  20. Little Nightmares II · 49,174 reviews · 93% 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 modeled estimates, not official sales data.

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