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.
The Outer Worlds: Spacer's Choice Edition
Choice-driven first-person sci-fi RPG in a corporate-controlled space colony
76% positive
5,493 reviews
Mr. Prepper
Survival crafting game about hiding an underground bunker from authorities
80% positive
5,473 reviews
Yooka-Laylee
3D platformer about collecting Pagies to expand colorful worlds
75% positive
5,398 reviews
Star Trucker
Space trucking simulation with cargo hauling and hands-on maintenance
78% positive
5,390 reviews
Old Market Simulator
First-person market management sim with farming, crafting, and online co-op
88% positive
5,386 reviews
Yoku's Island Express
Pinball platforming adventure across an island of branching paths
96% positive
5,332 reviews
Murky Divers
First-person underwater co-op horror about clearing bodies from abandoned labs
87% positive
5,331 reviews
Ib
Pixel-art horror adventure through a shifting gallery of puzzles
99% positive
5,327 reviews
Ghost of a Tale
Third-person stealth adventure as a mouse searching for his love
91% positive
5,323 reviews
Lost in Random™
Gothic action-adventure with card battles shaped by dice rolls
89% positive
5,299 reviews
SUCCUBUS
First-person action through Hell with graphic violence and revenge
76% positive
5,298 reviews
Until Dawn™
Choice-driven third-person horror adventure where anyone can die
83% positive
5,295 reviews
Exo One
Physics-based exploration across alien planets using gravity and momentum
90% positive
5,282 reviews
Dread Delusion
First-person open-world RPG exploring flying lands above an undead curse
90% positive
5,281 reviews
Gato Roboto
A 2D exploration platformer where a cat pilots a mech
94% positive
5,261 reviews
TaleSpire
Online tabletop RPG sandbox for building and playing on 3D boards
90% positive
5,243 reviews
Niche - a genetics survival game
Turn-based survival strategy about breeding a species to avoid extinction
86% positive
5,237 reviews
Moon Hunters
Action RPG with short, randomized runs and reputation-shaping choices
78% positive
5,236 reviews
LOST EMBER
Third-person exploration adventure where a wolf possesses other animals
88% positive
5,189 reviews
Bang-On Balls: Chronicles
Sandbox action adventure with ball-based combat and co-op exploration
96% positive
5,185 reviews
Sundered®: Eldritch Edition
Hand-drawn metroidvania with changing paths and waves of enemies
82% positive
5,178 reviews
Ni no Kuni Wrath of the White Witch™ Remastered
Creature-collecting fantasy JRPG with hybrid real-time and turn-based combat
83% positive
5,164 reviews
Nocturnal
Side-scrolling action adventure where a flaming sword repels mist
94% positive
5,156 reviews
Flower
Casual exploration game where wind carries petals through changing landscapes
79% positive
5,120 reviews