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.
OPUS: Echo of Starsong - Full Bloom Edition
Visual novel-style space adventure following starsongs to ancient asteroid temples
96% positive
9,476 reviews
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Open-world martial arts RPG with branching stories and faction wars
72% positive
9,466 reviews
Tank Mechanic Simulator
First-person tank restoration simulator with battlefield salvage and museum building
88% positive
9,437 reviews
Carto
Puzzle adventure where rearranging map pieces reshapes the world
96% positive
9,396 reviews
Slender: The Arrival
First-person survival horror about collecting pages while evading Slender Man
88% positive
9,358 reviews
Volcanoids
Open-world survival shooter built around a mobile drillship base
83% positive
9,354 reviews
TOGETHER BnB
Open-world dating sim about managing a BnB after your brother disappears
59% positive
9,348 reviews
Amnesia: Rebirth
First-person horror adventure retracing a missing journey through Algeria
77% positive
9,346 reviews
Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden
Third-person action RPG about spirit hunters making moral choices
84% positive
9,290 reviews
Secret World Legends
Free-to-play MMO with supernatural conspiracies and investigative quests
67% positive
Free
Curse of the Dead Gods
Isometric action roguelike with traps, darkness, and changing curses
83% positive
9,233 reviews
Elin
Open-world roguelike RPG with crafting, survival, and town building
93% positive
9,216 reviews
Ultimate Fishing Simulator®
Fishing simulator with multiple techniques and a winter ice-fishing map
89% positive
9,161 reviews
SteamWorld Dig 2
2D mining platformer with gear upgrades and underground secrets
95% positive
9,121 reviews
King of Crabs
Top-down multiplayer action where crabs scavenge and fight for dominance
79% positive
Free
Hylics
Surreal turn-based RPG with abstract visuals and generated text
98% positive
9,105 reviews
COCOON
Puzzle adventure built around portable orbs containing entire worlds
95% positive
9,093 reviews
Forever Skies
Open-world survival crafting aboard a customizable flying airship
78% positive
9,047 reviews
The Vanishing of Ethan Carter
First-person mystery adventure examining deaths to find a missing boy
88% positive
8,976 reviews
Monument Valley
Perspective puzzle game about guiding a princess through shifting monuments
98% positive
8,876 reviews
The Mortuary Assistant
Mortuary horror with embalming duties and a demon to banish
92% positive
8,775 reviews
FINAL FANTASY
Remastered 2D JRPG with turn-based battles and class-based parties
95% positive
8,753 reviews
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chornobyl - Enhanced Edition
Post-apocalyptic first-person shooter about surviving Chornobyl’s anomalous Zone
63% positive
8,712 reviews
Tomb Raider I-III Remastered Starring Lara Croft
Old-school action-adventure trilogy built around exploration, puzzles, and platforming
85% positive
8,634 reviews