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What are the best indie games?

A commercial recommendation prompt. We size how many people ask ChatGPT this from real search demand, then run it through ChatGPT to see which websites it recommends.

Est. people asking / mo
14K
CPC
$0.11
Total est. value / mo
$93
Common ways people ask this (15)
  • What are the best indie games for PC?
  • What are the best indie games for consoles?
  • What are the best indie games for Switch?
  • What are the best indie games for PlayStation?
  • What are the best indie games for Xbox?
  • What are the best indie games for beginners?
  • What are the best indie games for story?
  • What are the best indie games for multiplayer?
  • What are the best indie games for single-player?
  • What are the best indie games for relaxing gameplay?
  • What are the best indie games for challenging gameplay?
  • What are the best indie games for platforming fans?
  • What are the best indie games for roguelike fans?
  • What are the best indie games for puzzle fans?
  • What are the best budget indie games?

What ChatGPT actually answered

The 5 times we asked ChatGPT this, each answer verbatim. The leaderboard below aggregates all 5 runs.

Websites ChatGPT recommends for this prompt

Aggregated across 5 runs (min 2/5 appearances). Estimated visits split the prompt's demand by rank. Sites matching the prompt's own brand are marked branded and excluded from the leaderboard.

Arrows show each site's rank change since Jul 2026.

RankWebsiteEst. visits / mo
1 itch.io 275
2 ▲3 steamcommunity.com 165
3 ▼1 store.steampowered.com 110
4 ▲2 indiedb.com 76
5 ▲5 gog.com 55
6 ▼3 rockpapershotgun.com 41
7 ▲12 reddit.com 30
8 ▼4 indiegamesplus.com 23
9 ▼2 pcgamer.com 18
10 ▼1 gamejolt.com 14
11 ▼3 polygon.com 11
12 ▲8 newgrounds.com 8
13 new gamesradar.com 7
14 ▼3 metacritic.com 6
15 new gamespot.com 4
16 new kotaku.com 3
17 ▼1 ign.com 3
18 new kickstarter.com 2
19 ▼6 nintendo.com 2
20 new destructoid.com 1
How is this estimated?

ChatGPT doesn't publish prompts, so we don't show logged conversations. We measure real demand for this topic from Google search volume, scale it to ChatGPT's user base (on average about 1 ChatGPT user for every 8 Google searchers, a ratio that varies by topic), and run the prompt through ChatGPT 5 times to record which websites it recommends and in what order. Estimated visits split that demand across the recommended sites by a click-through-by-rank curve. Every number is a modeled estimate, not measured analytics. Full methodology →