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
8,037 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Rise of the Tomb Raider™
Third-person action adventure mixing Siberian exploration, combat, and tomb puzzles
94% positive
136K reviews
Starbound
Spacefaring sandbox RPG built around exploration, crafting, and colonization
93% positive
131K reviews
Assassin's Creed® Origins
Third-person open-world action RPG set across ancient Egypt
85% positive
128K reviews
Kerbal Space Program
Physics-based spaceflight sandbox for building and piloting homemade spacecraft
95% positive
128K reviews
ASTRONEER
Open-world space sandbox about reshaping planets and building bases
91% positive
128K reviews
Metro Exodus
Post-apocalyptic first-person shooter mixing open exploration, stealth, and survival horror
89% positive
128K reviews
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
Choice-driven detective RPG built around dialogue and political intrigue
92% positive
126K reviews
Starfield
Single-player space RPG with planetary exploration and customizable spacecraft
62% positive
122K reviews
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Crimson Desert Enhanced
Open-world fantasy action adventure with varied combat and exploration
80% positive
122K reviews
Subnautica 2
Underwater survival adventure on an alien world with optional co-op
91% positive
121K reviews
The Long Dark
First-person survival sandbox against cold, hunger, and wildlife
89% positive
120K reviews
V Rising
Open-world vampire survival RPG with castle building and blood hunting
88% positive
117K reviews
S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl
Open-world survival FPS built around exploration and atmospheric danger
79% positive
115K reviews
Just Cause™ 3
Open-world action sandbox built around movement and explosive destruction
85% positive
114K reviews
Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered
Open-world superhero action with web-swinging across Marvel’s New York
96% positive
110K reviews
DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED
Dark fantasy action RPG built around punishing, deliberate combat
90% positive
110K reviews
Space Engineers
Open-world space sandbox for building and breaking physics-driven machines
88% positive
108K reviews
Subnautica: Below Zero
Open-world underwater survival adventure with crafting and an arctic mystery
90% positive
106K reviews
Don't Starve
Single-player wilderness survival in randomly generated worlds with permanent death
96% positive
104K reviews
Enshrouded
Open-world survival action RPG with voxel building and online co-op
84% positive
103K reviews
Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition
Third-person open-world action RPG about hunting deadly machines
87% positive
101K reviews
Firewatch
First-person wilderness mystery shaped by conversations over a radio
90% positive
100K reviews
skate.
Online skateboarding sandbox with player-built spots across a shared city
70% positive
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Dark and Darker
First-person fantasy dungeon crawling against monsters and rival treasure hunters
62% positive
Free