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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.

ZERO Sievert
Top-down extraction shooter about scavenging a radioactive wasteland alone
85% positive 16K reviews
Sea of Stars: Sunset Edition
Pixel-art JRPG with timed turns and three-player local co-op
88% positive 16K reviews
Cloudpunk
Cyberpunk courier adventure through a vertical city by hover car
87% positive 15K reviews
Supraland
First-person puzzle adventure where new abilities unlock hidden paths
95% positive 15K reviews
shapez 2 - Factory
Sandbox factory simulation about automating and transporting geometric shapes
97% positive 15K reviews
Webbed
Physics-based puzzle platformer about swinging and building with webs
98% positive 15K reviews
Touhou Luna Nights
Side-scrolling action game with bullet-heavy combat and time-stopping puzzles
97% positive 15K reviews
Look Outside
Turn-based survival horror RPG inside a monster-filled apartment building
98% positive 15K reviews
Just Cause 2: Multiplayer Mod
Open-world action mod for multiplayer chaos and sandbox play
92% positive Free
Avorion
Open-world space sandbox with block-built ships and faction warfare
90% positive 15K reviews
FINAL FANTASY IX
Story-rich fantasy JRPG with turn-based battles and equipment-taught abilities
95% positive 14K reviews
Haste
High-speed third-person runner through procedurally generated collapsing worlds
92% positive 14K reviews
Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion
Top-down puzzle adventure about a turnip's unpaid tax debt
95% positive 14K reviews
Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing
Realistic first-person drone simulator with racing and custom tracks
95% positive 14K reviews
Mortal Online 2
First-person sandbox MMORPG with full-loot PvP and classless progression
60% positive 14K reviews
Little Kitty, Big City
Cozy open-world cat adventure about exploring and finding home
97% positive 14K reviews
Fate Seeker II
Open-world martial arts RPG mixing real-time combat and investigations
89% positive 14K reviews
We Happy Few
First-person survival adventure about escaping a drugged, conformist city
77% positive 14K reviews
The Forgotten City
First-person time-loop mystery where one person's sin dooms a Roman city
96% positive 14K reviews
The Invincible
First-person sci-fi walking simulator about choices on an alien planet
88% positive 14K reviews
FANTASY LIFE i: The Girl Who Steals Time
Slow-life action RPG blending jobs, crafting, combat, and town building
91% positive 14K reviews
Two Point Museum
Cartoon-style museum management sim with expeditions and exhibit design
95% positive 13K reviews
Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box
Open-world arcade racing through city streets with crashes and stunts
87% positive 13K reviews
The Talos Principle 2
First-person sci-fi puzzler about robots, civilization, and humanity's legacy
95% positive 13K reviews