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The best lore-rich indie games, ranked by reviews

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

indielist tracks 41 lore-rich indie games on Steam, holding 673,116 reviews at an average of 86% 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 Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 with 178,402 reviews. Figures are tracked by indielist; sales numbers are estimates that each expand into their full formula.

The ranking

  1. Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 · 178,402 reviews · 95% positive · 2025
  2. Poppy Playtime · 140,634 reviews · 88% positive · 2021
  3. Blasphemous · 53,558 reviews · 90% positive · 2019
  4. Five Nights at Freddy's · 53,111 reviews · 94% positive · 2014
  5. Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition · 33,614 reviews · 84% positive · 2021
  6. Slay the Princess — The Pristine Cut · 30,884 reviews · 97% positive · 2023
  7. Skullgirls 2nd Encore · 29,148 reviews · 88% positive · 2013
  8. Another Crab's Treasure · 16,488 reviews · 93% positive · 2024
  9. Murders on the Yangtze River · 15,614 reviews · 97% positive · 2024
  10. Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga · 12,735 reviews · 95% positive · 2022
  11. Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition · 11,805 reviews · 89% positive · 2023
  12. No More Room in Hell 2 · 11,391 reviews · 49% positive · 2024
  13. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location · 11,383 reviews · 90% positive · 2016
  14. Cultist Simulator · 10,623 reviews · 80% positive · 2018
  15. Beholder 2 · 6,782 reviews · 87% positive · 2018
  16. Super Animal Royale · 6,456 reviews · 93% positive · 2021
  17. ANNO: Mutationem · 5,805 reviews · 81% positive · 2022
  18. BOOK OF HOURS · 4,729 reviews · 89% positive · 2023
  19. Starcom: Unknown Space · 4,418 reviews · 92% positive · 2024
  20. Yarimono · 4,147 reviews · 87% 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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