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
7,410 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Forager
2D sandbox crafting with island expansion and incremental upgrades
90% positive
39K reviews
Demo Far Cry® 6
Open-world first-person shooter about overthrowing an island dictatorship
70% positive
39K reviews
ATLAS
Open-world pirate survival MMO built around sailing and naval combat
47% positive
39K reviews
Journey
Exploration adventure through ancient ruins with chance online companions
94% positive
38K reviews
Assassin’s Creed Shadows
Open-world action RPG split between shinobi stealth and samurai combat
74% positive
37K reviews
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Third-person superhero adventure with team combat and consequential choices
93% positive
37K reviews
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
First-person comedy adventure built around choices and contradictory endings
94% positive
37K reviews
Mouthwashing
First-person psychological horror aboard a wrecked space freighter with dwindling supplies
95% positive
37K reviews
Pacify
First-person co-op horror missions where paranormal entities hunt you
87% positive
37K reviews
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Open-world superhero action with two Spider-Men and web-swinging traversal
81% positive
36K reviews
We Were Here
Two-player castle escape puzzles built around voice communication
89% positive
Free
Demo My Time at Portia
Open-world life sim about crafting and rebuilding a workshop
91% positive
36K reviews
Trailmakers
Physics-based vehicle-building sandbox for land, sea, air, and space
92% positive
36K reviews
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Isometric fantasy CRPG with deep builds and consequential mythic choices
80% positive
36K reviews
007 First Light
Third-person spy action following James Bond's early days at MI6
90% positive
36K reviews
DARK SOULS™ II
Dark fantasy action RPG built around punishing combat and exploration
87% positive
36K reviews
GeoGuessr Steam Edition
A geography puzzle game about identifying places from street-level clues
69% positive
Free
Demo Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Open-world dark fantasy RPG shaped by choices and Arthurian legend
86% positive
35K reviews
Steep™
Open-world winter sports action across the Alps and Alaska
82% positive
35K reviews
Mirror's Edge™
First-person parkour action across rooftops in a monitored city
87% positive
34K reviews
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Open-world survival RPG with crafting, magic, and dragon hunting
79% positive
34K reviews
Wartales
Open-world tactical RPG about managing a medieval mercenary band
85% positive
33K reviews
Guild Wars 2®
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around exploration and dynamic events
87% positive
Free
Temtem
Online creature-collecting RPG with co-op and tactical turn-based battles
83% positive
33K reviews