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
8,037 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition
Open-world fantasy RPG built around exploration and character freedom
94% positive
24K reviews
Darkwood
Survival horror with daytime scavenging and desperate nighttime defense
94% positive
24K reviews
DC Universe™ Online
Free-to-play superhero MMO with custom characters and action combat
80% positive
Free
The Plan
Short, atmospheric game about a fly's journey into the sky
92% positive
Free
ANIMAL WELL
Puzzle platformer with nonlinear paths and secrets beyond the ending
95% positive
24K reviews
Sun Haven
Fantasy farming RPG with magic, romance, and online co-op
80% positive
24K reviews
Disney Dreamlight Valley
Relaxed Disney life sim with quests, friendships, and valley decorating
92% positive
24K reviews
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Global flight simulator with aviation careers and open-world exploration
54% positive
23K reviews
Old School RuneScape
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and player voting
83% positive
Free
ABZU
Underwater exploration adventure through marine ecosystems and ancient secrets
93% positive
23K reviews
Maneater
Open-world action RPG where a shark eats, grows, and evolves
87% positive
23K reviews
Grounded 2
Open-world survival crafting where you ride insects through an overgrown park
80% positive
23K reviews
Demo The Riftbreaker
Base-building action RPG with alien hordes and tower defense
89% positive
23K reviews
Gamble With Your Friends
Co-op casino gambling with a shared bankroll and debt quotas
90% positive
23K reviews
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BidKing
Four-player auction game where bluffing can make rivals overpay
33% positive
23K reviews
Pacific Drive
First-person driving survival through a shifting, anomaly-filled exclusion zone
82% positive
23K reviews
A Plague Tale: Requiem
Third-person action adventure with stealth and supernatural rat swarms
90% positive
22K reviews
TerraTech
Open-world sandbox action with modular vehicle building and combat
92% positive
22K reviews
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
First-person survival horror where hiding and running replace fighting
95% positive
22K reviews
Tree of Savior (English Ver.)
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with isometric combat and flexible classes
64% positive
Free
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MISERY
Co-op survival with daily scavenging runs and a bunker to build
85% positive
22K reviews
Sunkenland
Open-world survival crafting across flooded ruins, alone or in co-op
79% positive
22K reviews
Death's Door
Isometric action-adventure about a crow tracking a stolen soul
92% positive
21K reviews
Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition
Open-world action RPG about hunting machines in a dying future
87% positive
21K reviews