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.
EVERSPACE™
Roguelike space shooter with shifting sectors and lasting ship upgrades
78% positive
11K reviews
Pax Dei
Medieval sandbox MMO centered on crafting, building, and clan conflict
57% positive
11K reviews
Jalopy
First-person driving sim about car repairs and cross-border trading
76% positive
11K reviews
Into the Radius VR
VR survival shooter built around scavenging and careful gun handling
94% positive
11K reviews
Way of the Hunter
Open-world hunting simulation with realistic ballistics and animal behavior
80% positive
11K reviews
Iron Lung
Short first-person horror navigating a blood ocean by instruments
92% positive
11K reviews
Ni no Kuni™ II: Revenant Kingdom
Single-player fantasy action RPG about building a new kingdom
84% positive
11K reviews
Space Haven
Spaceship colony sim with tile-by-tile building and crew survival
86% positive
11K reviews
Cassette Beasts
Open-world creature-collecting RPG with cassette transformations and monster fusion
94% positive
11K reviews
SteamWorld Dig
2D mining platformer about digging deeper and upgrading your tools
94% positive
11K reviews
The Case of the Golden Idol
Point-and-click detective puzzles trace connected deaths and a mysterious idol
98% positive
11K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's: Into the Pit
Pixel-art horror adventure about time travel and evading a pursuer
96% positive
11K reviews
Visage
First-person psychological horror in a shifting house without weapons
84% positive
11K reviews
SimplePlanes
Aircraft-building sandbox with physics-based flight and piloting challenges
93% positive
11K reviews
Risen
Open-world fantasy RPG battling monsters on an earthquake-shaken island
89% positive
11K reviews
ALTF4
Third-person platformer where a clumsy knight dodges deadly traps
80% positive
11K reviews
The Universim
God game and city builder from the Stone Age to space
79% positive
11K reviews
Yume Nikki
Surreal exploration game about wandering through strange dream worlds
94% positive
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Citizen Sleeper
Dice-driven narrative RPG about surviving on a ruined space station
92% positive
11K reviews
VVVVVV
2D precision platformer where you flip gravity instead of jumping
96% positive
11K reviews
ATOM RPG: Post-apocalyptic indie game
Isometric post-apocalyptic RPG with turn-based combat and flexible quests
85% positive
11K reviews
Smalland: Survive the Wilds
Open-world survival crafting at insect scale, alone or together
82% positive
11K reviews
Ghosts of Tabor
VR extraction shooter with survival needs, looting, and PvPvE raids
71% positive
10K reviews
Afterimage
Side-scrolling metroidvania with a vast world and weapon-based combat
77% positive
10K reviews