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The best walking simulator 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 51 walking simulator indie games on Steam, holding 1,184,999 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 Life is Strange - Episode 1 with 122,787 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are modeled estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Life is Strange - Episode 1 · 122,787 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  2. The Long Dark · 110,190 reviews · 89% positive · 2017
  3. The Isle · 104,281 reviews · 80% positive · 2015
  4. Outlast · 101,554 reviews · 96% positive · 2013
  5. Firewatch · 91,732 reviews · 91% positive · 2016
  6. GRIS · 82,436 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
  7. What Remains of Edith Finch · 45,388 reviews · 96% positive · 2017
  8. SOMA · 45,295 reviews · 96% positive · 2015
  9. Journey · 34,123 reviews · 94% positive · 2020
  10. Life is Strange: Before the Storm · 33,386 reviews · 93% positive · 2017
  11. The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe · 33,072 reviews · 94% positive · 2022
  12. Mouthwashing · 32,805 reviews · 95% positive · 2024
  13. Return of the Obra Dinn · 31,275 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
  14. Crime Scene Cleaner · 30,859 reviews · 98% positive · 2024
  15. Before Your Eyes · 20,416 reviews · 98% positive · 2021
  16. Amnesia: The Dark Descent · 20,154 reviews · 95% positive · 2010
  17. A Short Hike · 18,683 reviews · 99% positive · 2019
  18. Scorn · 18,620 reviews · 77% positive · 2022
  19. Viscera Cleanup Detail · 17,841 reviews · 92% positive · 2015
  20. The Witness · 16,694 reviews · 84% positive · 2016

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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