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.
Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
Isometric action adventure with cooperative puzzles and undead combat
91% positive
4,797 reviews
Deadly Premonition: The Director's Cut
Open-world horror adventure about investigating murders in a supernatural town
66% positive
4,780 reviews
Lightyear Frontier
Open-world mech farming and crafting on an alien planet
84% positive
4,714 reviews
Immortals Fenyx Rising
Open-world action RPG mixing Greek myths, combat, and puzzles
73% positive
4,712 reviews
Chorus
Single-player space shooter with drifting dogfights and teleportation powers
82% positive
4,708 reviews
ANTONBLAST
Fast 2D platformer built around smashing stages and timed escapes
95% positive
4,699 reviews
METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version
Third-person stealth action split between two military infiltrations
90% positive
4,693 reviews
I Am Future: Cozy Apocalypse Survival
Cozy rooftop survival sim with farming, crafting, and robot helpers
84% positive
4,691 reviews
The Pirate: Caribbean Hunt
Open-world pirate game with ship battles and fleet building
83% positive
Free
Regions Of Ruin
Side-scrolling action RPG with dwarf settlement building and exploration
86% positive
4,650 reviews
Picayune Dreams
Top-down bullet hell runs against hordes in psychedelic space
99% positive
4,649 reviews
Tomb Raider I (1996)
Third-person tomb exploration with platforming, puzzles, and combat
86% positive
4,644 reviews
Flotsam
Floating colony builder that turns ocean trash into homes
81% positive
4,634 reviews
Sacred Gold
Open-world isometric action RPG with loot and character builds
85% positive
4,629 reviews
Atlas Fallen: Reign Of Sand
Open-world action RPG with dune surfing and monster battles
73% positive
4,604 reviews
Surviving the Aftermath
Post-apocalyptic colony sim about building, scavenging, and surviving disasters
71% positive
4,588 reviews
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Open-world detective adventure about gathering clues and judging suspects
78% positive
4,571 reviews
KARMA: The Dark World
First-person psychological thriller investigating memories in dystopian East Germany
91% positive
4,558 reviews
Survivalist: Invisible Strain
Open-world zombie colony sim built around relationships and survival
87% positive
4,557 reviews
Roots of Pacha
Relaxed Stone Age farming sim with crop domestication and co-op
94% positive
4,556 reviews
Word Game: Episode 0
Text-based puzzle adventure where changing words changes the world
99% positive
Free
Paradise Killer
Open-world detective adventure solving a murder on a surreal island
93% positive
4,536 reviews
Dreamfall Chapters
Third-person adventure where choices span cyberpunk and fantasy worlds
82% positive
4,531 reviews
A Castle Full of Cats
Point-and-click hidden-object game with branching castle rooms and cursed cats
99% positive
4,528 reviews