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
7,414 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Hot Lava
First-person parkour platformer across lava-filled obstacle courses and shortcuts
93% positive
6,167 reviews
MANDAGON
A 2D exploration platformer about life, death, and sacrifice
95% positive
Free
Axiom Verge
2D action platformer about exploring an alien labyrinth with glitches
90% positive
6,111 reviews
Matchmaking Inc.
Card-based dating sim about matching clients and finding love
87% positive
6,106 reviews
The Painscreek Killings
Unguided detective mystery built on exploring and connecting clues
90% positive
6,094 reviews
Nobody Saves the World
2D action RPG with shapeshifting quests and dungeons
90% positive
6,074 reviews
Felvidek
Turn-based RPG about an alcoholic knight in surreal Slovak Highlands
98% positive
6,066 reviews
Demo The Casting of Frank Stone™
Choice-driven horror adventure about a killer's legacy and branching fates
62% positive
6,008 reviews
Demo Tomb Raider: Legend
Third-person action adventure chasing an artifact across trap-filled tombs
87% positive
6,004 reviews
SteamWorld Dig 2
2D mining platformer with gear upgrades and underground secrets
95% positive
6,001 reviews
Spirit of the North
Third-person fox adventure with wordless storytelling and environmental puzzles
84% positive
5,988 reviews
METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version
Third-person jungle stealth action with camouflage and survival systems
87% positive
5,971 reviews
Journey To The Savage Planet
First-person alien exploration adventure with platforming and online co-op
87% positive
5,968 reviews
Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete
Historical turn-based strategy about exploring, settling, and conquering civilizations
90% positive
5,961 reviews
Crashlands
An open-world crafting RPG with an inventory that never fills
90% positive
5,927 reviews
Sonic Origins
Fast-paced 2D platforming across four remastered 16-bit classics
75% positive
5,915 reviews
Demo Monster Hunter Stories 3: Twisted Reflection
Turn-based RPG about raising monsters as two countries approach war
77% positive
5,885 reviews
Demo MOTORSLICE
Third-person parkour action with chainsaw combat against rogue construction machines
86% positive
5,880 reviews
Demo OneShot: World Machine Edition
Pixel-art puzzle adventure with clues inside a simulated desktop
98% positive
5,868 reviews
Crime Scene Cleaner: Prologue
First-person cleaning simulator about erasing evidence at a crime scene
94% positive
Free
The Sinking City Remastered
Lovecraftian open-world detective adventure in a flooded, supernatural city
74% positive
5,819 reviews
In Sound Mind
First-person psychological horror with puzzles across unsettling memories
94% positive
5,807 reviews
Railroads Online
Open-world railroad sandbox about building tracks and hauling freight
75% positive
5,799 reviews
Mandate Of Heaven
Live-action political drama with choices between ambition and personal loyalties
91% positive
5,789 reviews