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The best survival 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 65 survival horror indie games on Steam, holding 3,652,140 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 The Forest with 570,988 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. The Forest · 570,988 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  2. Lethal Company · 409,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  3. Don't Starve Together · 367,165 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
  4. Project Zomboid · 343,212 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
  5. Subnautica · 331,738 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  6. Escape the Backrooms · 117,078 reviews · 90% positive · 2025
  7. The Long Dark · 110,190 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  8. Outlast · 101,554 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  9. Subnautica: Below Zero · 97,547 reviews · 90% positive · 2021
  10. Don't Starve · 96,212 reviews · 97% positive · 2013
  11. Getting Over It with Bennett Foddy · 74,104 reviews · 82% positive · 2017
  12. DEVOUR · 68,077 reviews · 91% positive · 2021
  13. Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach · 64,363 reviews · 86% positive · 2021
  14. Outlast 2 · 52,979 reviews · 91% positive · 2017
  15. Five Nights at Freddy's · 52,676 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  16. Little Nightmares · 51,668 reviews · 95% positive · 2017
  17. DREDGE · 45,431 reviews · 96% positive · 2023
  18. SOMA · 45,295 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  19. Rain World · 42,258 reviews · 94% positive · 2017
  20. Poppy Playtime · 38,264 reviews · 88% 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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