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The best surreal 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 44 surreal indie games on Steam, holding 1,002,871 reviews at an average of 93% 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 Inscryption with 131,971 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Inscryption · 131,971 reviews · 97% positive · 2021
  2. Disco Elysium - The Final Cut · 114,817 reviews · 93% positive · 2019
  3. Buckshot Roulette · 104,508 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  4. Hotline Miami · 104,245 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
  5. GRIS · 82,436 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  6. OneShot · 57,172 reviews · 98% positive · 2016
  7. LIMBO · 39,687 reviews · 92% positive · 2011
  8. Mouthwashing · 32,805 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  9. ANIMAL WELL · 22,251 reviews · 96% positive · 2024
  10. Baba Is You · 20,582 reviews · 98% positive · 2019
  11. Before Your Eyes · 20,416 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  12. Amnesia: The Dark Descent · 20,154 reviews · 95% positive · 2010
  13. Fran Bow · 19,879 reviews · 97% positive · 2015
  14. Scorn · 18,620 reviews · 77% positive · 2022
  15. Demonologist · 18,497 reviews · 85% positive · 2023
  16. Nubby's Number Factory · 17,191 reviews · 97% positive · 2025
  17. The Witness · 16,694 reviews · 84% positive · 2016
  18. The Past Within · 16,511 reviews · 95% positive · 2022
  19. Pseudoregalia · 16,367 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  20. Baldi's Basics Plus · 10,863 reviews · 98% positive · 2020

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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