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.
NIGHT-RUNNERS™ PROLOGUE
Single-player street racing with car tuning and cash wagers
95% positive
Free
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
Global flight simulator with aviation careers and open-world exploration
60% positive
23K reviews
Soulmask
Open-world survival crafting with recruitable tribes and automated bases
77% positive
22K reviews
Dome Keeper
Roguelike mining and dome defense under constant time pressure
92% positive
22K reviews
Portal Knights
Co-op sandbox action RPG built around crafting and exploration
83% positive
22K reviews
Death's Door
Isometric action-adventure about a crow tracking a stolen soul
93% positive
22K reviews
Fallout 3
Open-world RPG with post-nuclear exploration and targeted combat
81% positive
22K reviews
DC Universe™ Online
Free-to-play superhero MMO with custom characters and action combat
81% positive
Free
Bellwright
Open-world medieval survival RPG about building towns and leading rebellion
80% positive
22K reviews
The Witness
First-person open-world puzzle game where observation replaces written instructions
84% positive
21K reviews
Murders on the Yangtze River
Side-scrolling detective adventure solving murders in early twentieth-century China
97% positive
21K reviews
Ghostwire: Tokyo
First-person open-world action against spirits in a deserted Tokyo
83% positive
21K reviews
Mon Bazou
Open-world car-building life sim with jobs and street racing
97% positive
21K reviews
Lords Of The Fallen™ 2014
Dark fantasy action RPG with weighty combat and towering bosses
59% positive
21K reviews
Old School RuneScape
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and player voting
83% positive
Free
Gorogoa
Hand-drawn puzzle adventure built around rearranging illustrated panels
97% positive
21K reviews
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
First-person adventure mixing exploration, puzzles, stealth, and whip-based combat
90% positive
21K reviews
Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden
Post-apocalyptic turn-based tactics with real-time stealth and mutant companions
90% positive
21K reviews
Tree of Savior (English Ver.)
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with isometric combat and flexible classes
64% positive
Free
X-Plane 11
Realistic open-world flight simulator with working cockpits and multiplayer
93% positive
20K reviews
Night in the Woods
Dialogue-heavy adventure about returning home to a changing mining town
95% positive
20K reviews
Drive Beyond Horizons
Open-world driving survival sandbox with procedural terrain and vehicle maintenance
78% positive
20K reviews
BIOMUTANT
Open-world action RPG with mutant powers and custom weapons
66% positive
20K reviews
Blue Prince
First-person puzzle roguelite in a manor that resets each dawn
86% positive
20K reviews