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.
My Friendly Neighborhood
First-person survival horror with hostile puppets and resource management
95% positive
3,440 reviews
Might & Magic X - Legacy
First-person fantasy dungeon crawler with turn-based combat and open-world exploration
66% positive
3,430 reviews
Fears to Fathom - Norwood Hitchhike
Psychological horror about a detour and an unplanned motel stay
87% positive
3,428 reviews
Greed of Man
Open-world MMO RPG about gathering, trading, and territorial control
38% positive
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Dungeons of Hinterberg
Alpine dungeon-crawling adventure with puzzles and town friendships
93% positive
3,397 reviews
Guacamelee! 2
2D Metroidvania with wrestling combat and chicken-form platforming
91% positive
3,389 reviews
This Bed We Made
Third-person hotel mystery about snooping through guests' belongings
91% positive
3,387 reviews
9 Years of Shadows
Side-scrolling Metroidvania with elemental armor inside a mechanical fortress
77% positive
3,371 reviews
Snake Pass
Physics-based 3D puzzle platformer built around slithering and coiling
80% positive
3,342 reviews
Kingdom Eighties
1980s side-scrolling tower defense with kids protecting their town
75% positive
3,339 reviews
Dungeons 4
Dungeon-building strategy with real-time surface raids and online co-op
87% positive
3,322 reviews
Carry The Glass
Co-op physics platformer about carrying fragile glass up towers
75% positive
3,322 reviews
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[Chilla's Art] The Convenience Store | 夜勤事件
First-person Japanese horror with puzzles on a convenience store night shift
82% positive
3,315 reviews
Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land
Open-world action RPG about exploration, alchemy, and base building
64% positive
3,303 reviews
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
First-person survival horror with four perspectives and campus ghosts
94% positive
3,302 reviews
Assassin’s Creed® Liberation HD
Open-world stealth action as a female assassin in colonial Louisiana
54% positive
3,289 reviews
Momodora: Moonlit Farewell
Side-scrolling Metroidvania with customizable sigils and demon battles
92% positive
3,289 reviews
Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Nonlinear hotel mystery built around interconnected riddles and clues
94% positive
3,276 reviews
Ostranauts
Space survival simulation about salvaging wrecks and building your ship
77% positive
3,272 reviews
Techtonica
First-person underground factory builder with exploration and a voiced story
65% positive
3,269 reviews
Alaskan Road Truckers
Open-world trucking simulator with roadside repairs and survival needs
62% positive
3,266 reviews
Shenmue I & II
Open-world martial arts adventures built around clues and daily routines
89% positive
3,263 reviews
Contradiction: Spot The Liar
Live-action detective mystery built around catching suspects in contradictions
95% positive
3,256 reviews
The Classrooms
First-person survival horror in shifting school halls with sound-sensitive monsters
89% positive
3,249 reviews