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.
Celeste
Difficult 2D precision platformer about climbing a mountain and persevering
97% positive
148K reviews
Kerbal Space Program
Physics-based spaceflight sandbox for building and piloting homemade spacecraft
96% positive
147K reviews
Ori and the Will of the Wisps
Hand-painted Metroidvania platforming through a wounded fantasy world
96% positive
146K reviews
Oxygen Not Included
Space colony simulation built around survival and interconnected resource systems
97% positive
144K reviews
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Open-world superhero action with web-swinging across Marvel’s New York
96% positive
144K reviews
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Open-world survival FPS built around exploration and atmospheric danger
80% positive
141K reviews
Fallout 76
Open-world multiplayer RPG about rebuilding post-nuclear West Virginia
72% positive
141K reviews
ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
92% positive
139K reviews
V Rising
Open-world vampire survival RPG with castle building and blood hunting
89% positive
137K reviews
Metro Exodus
Post-apocalyptic first-person shooter mixing open exploration, stealth, and survival horror
90% positive
136K reviews
Space Engineers
Open-world space sandbox for building and breaking physics-driven machines
89% positive
134K reviews
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Choice-driven detective RPG built around dialogue and political intrigue
93% positive
131K reviews
Assassin's Creed® Origins
Third-person open-world action RPG set across ancient Egypt
86% positive
129K reviews
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
Third-person open-world action RPG about hunting deadly machines
88% positive
128K reviews
Just Cause™ 3
Open-world action sandbox built around movement and explosive destruction
84% positive
128K reviews
Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
First-person survival horror inside a hostile rural American house
95% positive
127K reviews
The Long Dark
First-person survival sandbox against cold, hunger, and wildlife
89% positive
124K reviews
Starbound
Spacefaring sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, and colonization
90% positive
123K reviews
Conan Exiles Enhanced
Open-world survival crafting with city building and siege warfare
79% positive
118K reviews
Don't Starve
Single-player wilderness survival in randomly generated worlds with permanent death
97% positive
113K reviews
Subnautica: Below Zero
Open-world underwater survival adventure with crafting and an arctic mystery
90% positive
108K reviews
Outer Wilds
Open-world space mystery driven by exploration and an endless time loop
96% positive
108K reviews
Elite Dangerous
Open-world space simulation with a full-scale Milky Way sandbox
77% positive
108K reviews
Enshrouded
Open-world survival action RPG with voxel building and online co-op
86% positive
106K reviews