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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Ashen
Open-world action RPG with tough combat and optional co-op
67% positive
3,861 reviews
Reassembly
Top-down space sandbox for building ships and fighting enemies
94% positive
3,827 reviews
Solarpunk™
Survival crafting on floating islands with airships and renewable energy
80% positive
3,825 reviews
Fears to Fathom - Woodbury Getaway
First-person psychological horror on a weekend getaway with friends
86% positive
3,814 reviews
Thief Gold (1999)
First-person stealth game where shadows and sound shape every theft
92% positive
3,811 reviews
35MM
First-person walking simulator following two travelers through post-apocalyptic Russia
72% positive
3,809 reviews
Demo Ship Graveyard Simulator 2
First-person shipbreaking simulator about dismantling wrecks and salvaging materials
74% positive
3,802 reviews
Refind Self: The Personality Test Game
Choice-driven adventure where your actions shape a personality profile
88% positive
3,792 reviews
Peaks of Yore
First-person physics climbing where small mistakes mean long falls
97% positive
3,785 reviews
Monument Valley 2
A puzzle adventure through monuments with shifting, impossible pathways
93% positive
3,784 reviews
Demo Risen 2: Dark Waters
Third-person pirate RPG about exploring islands and stopping sea monsters
80% positive
3,778 reviews
HOME
A short walking simulator built around your idea of home
90% positive
Free
Demo Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Isometric action adventure with cooperative puzzles and undead combat
92% positive
3,770 reviews
Tinkerlands
Open-world survival crafting across islands with bosses and settlements
84% positive
3,767 reviews
Demo Subliminal
First-person psychological horror with movable light and perspective-based puzzles
73% positive
3,762 reviews
Demo TEVI
Side-scrolling metroidvania with customizable combat and bullet-heavy boss fights
88% positive
3,756 reviews
Kynseed
2D open-world life RPG where families age across generations
82% positive
3,737 reviews
Demo Who's Lila?
Point-and-click psychological horror where facial expressions steer conversations
94% positive
3,735 reviews
Offworld Trading Company
Real-time economic strategy on Mars, with stocks instead of armies
76% positive
3,727 reviews
Demo Death Trash
Isometric action RPG with shotguns and grotesque cosmic horrors
92% positive
3,724 reviews
Demo Dark Hours
Co-op survival horror where thieves must escape roaming monsters
80% positive
3,722 reviews
Hamster Hunter
First-person horror hunting driven by revenge against hamsters
94% positive
3,722 reviews
60 Parsecs!
Text-based space survival game with timed scavenging and tough decisions
90% positive
3,705 reviews
BEACHED
Free-to-play open-world survival shooter with base building and PvP
64% positive
Free