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.
Longvinter
Open-world multiplayer survival sandbox with building, trading, and PvP
67% positive
7,714 reviews
Euro Truck Simulator
Single-player truck sim with timed deliveries across European cities
84% positive
7,665 reviews
Rusty Lake Paradise
Point-and-click puzzles on an island struck by ten plagues
95% positive
7,631 reviews
Call of the Wild: The Angler™
Open-world fishing simulation with varied techniques and online co-op
64% positive
7,621 reviews
The Swapper
Sci-fi puzzle platformer built around clones and body swapping
94% positive
7,585 reviews
Dear Esther: Landmark Edition
First-person walking adventure across a deserted island with fragmented narration
75% positive
7,567 reviews
Sid Meier's Pirates!
Open-world pirate RPG about sailing, raiding, and hunting treasure
94% positive
7,564 reviews
Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator 2
Large-scale battle sandbox with millions of AI-controlled units
85% positive
7,497 reviews
Breakout 13
Live-action adventure with branching choices in a teen correctional center
88% positive
7,492 reviews
THE LONGING
Underground point-and-click adventure with a real-time 400-day countdown
92% positive
7,465 reviews
Record of Lodoss War-Deedlit in Wonder Labyrinth-
2D fantasy action-platformer with labyrinth exploration and elemental switching
93% positive
7,450 reviews
HighFleet
Fleet strategy with tactical airship duels and resource management
88% positive
7,442 reviews
Tomb Raider: Anniversary
Third-person action adventure reimagining Lara Croft's puzzle-filled artifact hunt
82% positive
7,432 reviews
Steelrising
Souls-like action RPG fighting royal automatons in revolutionary Paris
72% positive
7,407 reviews
Torchlight
Single-player action RPG about looting randomized dungeons with a pet
91% positive
7,378 reviews
INMOST
Dark pixel-art puzzle platformer connecting three characters' stories
91% positive
7,370 reviews
Matchmaking Inc.
Card-based dating sim about matching clients and finding love
89% positive
7,344 reviews
The House of Da Vinci
Renaissance puzzle adventure tracing Leonardo’s disappearance through mechanical contraptions
86% positive
7,330 reviews
X Rebirth
Space simulation with ship combat, trading, and station building
44% positive
7,317 reviews
The Flame in the Flood
Roguelike survival on a procedurally generated river through post-collapse America
76% positive
7,302 reviews
Amanda the Adventurer
First-person horror puzzle game with cartoon characters addressing you
94% positive
7,289 reviews
F.I.S.T.: Forged In Shadow Torch
Metroidvania action platformer about a rabbit resisting a mechanical army
86% positive
7,268 reviews
UnderRail
Turn-based isometric RPG exploring humanity's divided underground refuge
86% positive
7,256 reviews
Home Behind 2
Roguelike RPG about building a squad amid a civil war
87% positive
7,249 reviews