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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Satisfactory
First-person factory builder about automating an alien open world
97% positive
247K reviews
It Takes Two
Two-player puzzle platforming built around cooperation and changing abilities
95% positive
231K reviews
Fallout: New Vegas
Open-world action RPG shaped by factions and player choices
95% positive
227K reviews
Muck
First-person island survival with crafting, base building, and nighttime attacks
93% positive
Free
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
78% positive
Free
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
Open-world cultivation RPG with martial arts, relationships, and branching choices
57% positive
206K reviews
Far Cry® 5
Open-world first-person shooter about freeing Montana from a doomsday cult
81% positive
189K reviews
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Party-based fantasy RPG with flexible builds and tactical turn-based combat
95% positive
189K reviews
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Turn-based fantasy RPG with real-time dodges, parries, and counters
95% positive
188K reviews
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Third-person action adventure about surviving and escaping a mysterious island
96% positive
187K reviews
Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
Open-world action RPG exploring and fighting across ancient Greece
88% positive
183K reviews
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
First-person open-world zombie RPG built around parkour and co-op
78% positive
181K reviews
Demo American Truck Simulator
Open-world trucking simulation about hauling cargo and building a company
96% positive
177K reviews
Stray
Third-person cat adventure through a decaying neon cybercity
97% positive
168K reviews
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
Third-person Jedi adventure with lightsaber combat and Force-powered exploration
88% positive
163K reviews
Demo Slime Rancher
First-person ranching sandbox about collecting, feeding, and combining colorful slimes
98% positive
155K reviews
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Stellaris
Real-time grand strategy about building and shaping a galactic empire
83% positive
153K reviews
Escape the Backrooms
First-person co-op horror across maze-like levels filled with hostile entities
89% positive
149K reviews
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Hand-painted Metroidvania platforming through a wounded fantasy world
96% positive
149K reviews
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DAVE THE DIVER
Underwater adventure mixing daytime fishing with nighttime sushi management
96% positive
149K reviews
The Elder Scrolls® Online
Open-world fantasy MMORPG for solo questing, co-op, and PvP
81% positive
144K reviews
Celeste
Difficult 2D precision platformer about climbing a mountain and persevering
97% positive
144K reviews
Oxygen Not Included
Space colony simulation built around survival and interconnected resource systems
96% positive
142K reviews
God of War
Third-person Norse action adventure with weighty close-range combat
95% positive
138K reviews