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.
Clair Obscur: Expedition 33
Turn-based fantasy RPG with real-time dodges, parries, and counters
95% positive
279K reviews
Tomb Raider Game of the Year
Third-person action adventure about surviving and escaping a mysterious island
96% positive
270K reviews
It Takes Two
Two-player puzzle platforming built around cooperation and changing abilities
95% positive
270K reviews
Fallout: New Vegas
Open-world action RPG shaped by factions and player choices
96% positive
262K reviews
鬼谷八荒 Tale of Immortal
Open-world cultivation RPG with martial arts, relationships, and branching choices
56% positive
225K reviews
Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition
First-person open-world zombie RPG built around parkour and co-op
79% positive
220K reviews
Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition
Party-based fantasy RPG with flexible builds and tactical turn-based combat
96% positive
206K reviews
Stellaris
Real-time grand strategy about building and shaping a galactic empire
86% positive
197K reviews
American Truck Simulator
Open-world trucking simulation about hauling cargo and building a company
97% positive
196K reviews
Far Cry® 5
Open-world first-person shooter about freeing Montana from a doomsday cult
81% positive
189K reviews
Once Human
Open-world multiplayer survival crafting amid monsters and polluted wilderness
79% positive
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Assassin's Creed® Odyssey
Open-world action RPG exploring and fighting across ancient Greece
89% positive
189K reviews
God of War
Third-person Norse action adventure with weighty close-range combat
96% positive
185K reviews
Stray
Third-person cat adventure through a decaying neon cybercity
97% positive
178K reviews
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
Third-person Jedi adventure with lightsaber combat and Force-powered exploration
88% positive
176K reviews
Starfield
Single-player space RPG with planetary exploration and customizable spacecraft
57% positive
175K reviews
Crimson Desert Enhanced
Open-world fantasy action adventure with varied combat and exploration
84% positive
175K reviews
Escape the Backrooms
First-person co-op horror across maze-like levels filled with hostile entities
90% positive
166K reviews
Content Warning
Online co-op horror where friends film monsters for viral views
94% positive
163K reviews
DAVE THE DIVER
Underwater adventure mixing daytime fishing with nighttime sushi management
96% positive
163K reviews
The Elder Scrolls® Online
Open-world fantasy MMORPG for solo questing, co-op, and PvP
81% positive
162K reviews
Slime Rancher
First-person ranching sandbox about collecting, feeding, and combining colorful slimes
98% positive
157K reviews
Rise of the Tomb Raider™
Third-person action adventure mixing Siberian exploration, combat, and tomb puzzles
94% positive
156K reviews
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Dark fantasy action RPG built around punishing, deliberate combat
92% positive
155K reviews