The Game Census

Games published by Klei Publishing

13 census-tracked games, ranked by total Steam reviews.

Klei Publishing has published 13 games tracked by The Game Census, with 90k Steam reviews between them and an overall 91% positive rating. The most reviewed is The Stanley Parable (46k reviews, 92% positive). Its best-rated title with at least 1,000 reviews is Beastieball at 98% positive. Releases span 2011 to 2026.

None of its games reports a live Steam player count at the moment. Census health tiers across the catalog: 3 healthy, 2 cooling, 8 quiet.

Genres across the catalog: Indie (10), Adventure (6), RPG (3), Simulation (3), Strategy (3). Most common player tags: Singleplayer, Story Rich, Indie, First-Person, Exploration, Adventure.

Games
13
Steam reviews
90k
Positive
91%
Players now
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#GameReviewsRatingPlayersHealthPriceReleased
1The Stanley Parable
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
46k92%—Healthy$14.992013-10-17
2The Beginner's Guide
The Beginner's Guide is a narrative video game from Davey Wreden, the creator of The Stanley Parable. It lasts about an hour and a half and has no traditional mechanics, no goals or objectives. Instead, it tells the story of a person struggling to deal with something they do not understand.
24k88%—Healthy$9.992015-10-01
3Rift of the NecroDancer
The NecroDancer's back in an all-new rhythm game! Dragged into a strange new world, Cadence must engage in musical combat with monsters surging through the Rift! Face pulse-pounding Rhythm Rifts where every beat is a battle, all set to an original soundtrack by Danny Baranowsky & friends.
6.3k94%—Healthy$19.992025-02-05
4Mind Over Magic
Mind Over Magic is a colony sim set at the site of a cursed magic school. Build and optimize your own magical academy, train powerful Mages, and master mighty relics in order to battle through the Underschool, a mysterious underground dungeon that holds the key to liberation from a deadly curse.
4.5k87%—Cooling$24.992025-02-12
5Atom Zombie Smasher
The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.
2.1k90%—Quiet$9.992011-03-14
6Thirty Flights of Loving
This surprising first-person story tells the tale of a heist gone wrong. Encounter high-flying schemers, lovelorn criminals, and more stray kittens than you can shake a stick at.
1.9k64%—Quiet$4.992012-08-20
7Beastieball
A turn-based volleyball RPG where you coach a sports team of Beasties! Your Beasties' relationships grow and change, unlocking new abilities and combo plays!
1.8k98%—Quiet$24.992024-11-12
8Fretless - The Wrath of Riffson
In this turn-based RPG, wield powerful legendary instruments, gather mighty riff attacks and save the land from Rick Riffson's devilish goons and musical hybrid monsters!
1.5k98%—Quiet$14.992025-07-17
9Quadrilateral Cowboy
When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder.
1.0k92%—Quiet$19.992016-07-25
10Dawnfolk
Dawnfolk is a charmingly dark, casual and puzzly survival building game. Gather resources, rebuild your realm, and protect your people from oppressive shadows. Can you unveil the secrets of the monoliths and bring light back to the world?
72795%—Quiet$14.992025-02-13
11Kaizen: A Factory Story
Kaizen is an open-ended puzzle automation game from the original Zachtronics team, set in 1980s Japan. Design, build, and optimize production lines to create iconic products, like calculators, camcorders, and arcade machines.
72292%—Quiet$19.992025-07-14
12Lab Rat
A metrics-obsessed AI will monitor, profile, and entertain you as you progress through over a hundred genre-bending puzzles in this delightfully satirical adventure.
38997%—Quiet$19.992025-04-15
13U.V.S. Nirmana
U.V.S. Nirmana is a engineering puzzle game from Coincidence, the creators of Kaizen: A Factory Story and the inventors of the Zach-like. Set off on the Unreturning Void Ship Nirmana as it continues a journey of uncountable eons toward the edge of the universe.
22089%—Cooling$14.992026-05-04

Reviews and ratings are Steam totals at the latest census snapshot. Players is the most recent concurrent-player sample recorded by the census and is blank where Steam exposes no count. Health is the census verdict for each game; the tiers are explained in the methodology. Game blurbs, genres and tags are the Steam store's own.