The best adventure indie games, ranked by reviews

Data report Built from live indielist data on 2026-07-24. Rankings update as data changes.

indielist tracks 2124 adventure indie games on Steam, holding 28,025,314 reviews at an average of 87% 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 Rust with 1,383,303 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

1. Rust · 1,383,303 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
2. Terraria · 1,227,439 reviews · 97% positive · 2011
3. Euro Truck Simulator 2 · 775,884 reviews · 97% positive · 2012
4. ARK: Survival Evolved · 583,081 reviews · 83% positive · 2017
5. The Forest · 577,971 reviews · 96% positive · 2018
6. Hollow Knight · 495,505 reviews · 97% positive · 2017
7. Valheim · 455,972 reviews · 94% positive · 2021
8. Lethal Company · 410,693 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
9. Hollow Knight: Silksong · 380,613 reviews · 89% positive · 2025
10. Palworld · 379,930 reviews · 94% positive · 2026
11. Don't Starve Together · 373,459 reviews · 95% positive · 2016
12. Project Zomboid · 350,081 reviews · 94% positive · 2013
13. Subnautica · 338,617 reviews · 97% positive · 2018
14. Raft · 321,118 reviews · 93% positive · 2022
15. No Man's Sky · 310,268 reviews · 85% positive · 2016
16. Sons Of The Forest · 280,088 reviews · 88% positive · 2024
17. 7 Days to Die · 275,623 reviews · 87% positive · 2024
18. PEAK · 275,522 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
19. Ready or Not · 260,220 reviews · 78% positive · 2023
20. Satisfactory · 232,215 reviews · 97% positive · 2024

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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