Best Exploration games on PC
Games centered on moving through environments and discovering locations, paths, and secrets, often with freedom to take detours or choose where to go next.
- Frequent travel through new areas
- Optional paths and hidden locations
- Progress through learning the environment
Related: Open World, Sandbox, Survival, RPG
1,972 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
Terraria
2D sandbox adventure built around digging, crafting, and boss fights
97% positive
1.6M reviews
Garry's Mod
Physics sandbox for building contraptions and playing community-made modes
97% positive
1.3M reviews
Cyberpunk 2077
Open-world first-person RPG set in a futuristic cyberpunk city
87% positive
981K reviews
Euro Truck Simulator 2
Open-world trucking simulation with cargo routes and company management
97% positive
944K reviews
The Forest
First-person survival horror with base building and mutant cannibals
96% positive
683K reviews
Hollow Knight
Challenging 2D Metroidvania through a ruined underground bug kingdom
97% positive
562K reviews
Valheim
Norse open-world survival crafting with co-op building and bosses
94% positive
552K reviews
Monster Hunter: World
Third-person action RPG about tracking and hunting giant monsters
89% positive
518K reviews
Lethal Company
First-person co-op horror about scavenging deadly moons for quota
97% positive
511K reviews
Palworld
Open-world survival RPG combining creature collecting, crafting, and base automation
95% positive
489K reviews
DARK SOULS™ III
Third-person dark fantasy RPG built around punishing combat and exploration
94% positive
440K reviews
Fallout 4
Open-world post-apocalyptic RPG with gunplay, choices, and settlement building
81% positive
429K reviews
R.E.P.O.
Online co-op horror about hauling fragile valuables past monsters
96% positive
425K reviews
No Man's Sky
Open-world space sandbox across a procedurally generated galaxy
85% positive
420K reviews
BeamNG.drive
Open-world driving sandbox built around soft-body vehicle physics
97% positive
419K reviews
7 Days to Die
Open-world zombie survival sandbox built around crafting and base defense
87% positive
401K reviews
Subnautica
First-person underwater survival crafting on a dangerous alien ocean
97% positive
380K reviews
Deep Rock Galactic
Class-based co-op FPS about mining procedural caves and fighting aliens
97% positive
380K reviews
Hogwarts Legacy
Open-world action RPG about spellcasting and exploring 1800s Hogwarts
90% positive
374K reviews
PEAK
First-person co-op climbing where each mistake threatens the whole ascent
94% positive
373K reviews
Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition
Shared-world pirate adventure built around sailing, treasure, and rival crews
89% positive
373K reviews
Sons Of The Forest
Open-world survival horror with base building and cooperative exploration
88% positive
321K reviews
Forza Horizon 5
Open-world arcade racing across Mexico with hundreds of cars
89% positive
282K reviews
Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive
280K reviews