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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Demo Resident Evil 7 Biohazard
First-person survival horror inside a hostile rural American house
95% positive
96K reviews
Outer Wilds
Open-world space mystery driven by exploration and an endless time loop
95% positive
94K reviews
Forza Horizon 6
Open-world racing across Japan with hundreds of real-world cars
80% positive
94K reviews
OMORI
Story-rich psychological horror RPG with turn-based combat and branching endings
97% positive
90K reviews
GRIS
A 2D platform adventure through sorrow and returning color
96% positive
89K reviews
Elite Dangerous
Open-world space simulation with a full-scale Milky Way sandbox
75% positive
87K reviews
Escape From Duckov
A single-player extraction shooter about scavenging and surviving as a duck
87% positive
86K reviews
Green Hell
Open-world survival simulation with detailed health, crafting, and jungle dangers
84% positive
85K reviews
Demo FINAL FANTASY XIV Online
Story-driven fantasy MMORPG with flexible jobs and solo-friendly dungeons
85% positive
85K reviews
STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™
Third-person Star Wars adventure with lightsaber combat and open exploration
68% positive
85K reviews
Fallout 76
Open-world multiplayer RPG about rebuilding post-nuclear West Virginia
73% positive
84K reviews
Conan Exiles Enhanced
Open-world survival crafting with city building and siege warfare
78% positive
84K reviews
Fishing Planet
First-person online fishing simulator with detailed tackle and global waterways
86% positive
Free
DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition
Third-person action RPG with tough bosses and interconnected areas
91% positive
82K reviews
Grounded
First-person backyard survival crafting at the size of an ant
89% positive
80K reviews
RV There Yet?
First-person co-op driving adventure with one RV and two winches
90% positive
79K reviews
Content Warning
Online co-op horror where friends film monsters for viral views
93% positive
78K reviews
Demo Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition
Third-person jungle adventure mixing exploration, stealth, combat, and tomb puzzles
84% positive
77K reviews
Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™
Open-world pirate adventure with naval combat, stealth, and parkour
87% positive
77K reviews
Far Cry® 4
Open-world first-person shooter with stealth, mountain warfare, and rideable elephants
84% positive
75K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
First-person survival horror across a vast animatronic-filled entertainment complex
86% positive
74K reviews
SPORE™
Single-player evolution sandbox spanning cells, civilizations, and space
92% positive
73K reviews
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Throne and Liberty
Open-world fantasy MMORPG with creature transformations and battles between guilds
67% positive
Free
Dune: Awakening
Open-world survival RPG of crafting, base building, and Arrakis exploration
73% positive
72K reviews