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.
WW2 Rebuilder
First-person rebuilding simulator about clearing rubble across postwar Europe
85% positive
1,584 reviews
TRADESMAN: Deal to Dealer
Side-scrolling trading RPG where carrying more goods makes travel riskier
79% positive
1,583 reviews
Botany Manor
First-person puzzle game about growing rare plants in a manor
95% positive
1,578 reviews
노베나 디아볼로스
Survival mystery adventure with nine days to find the human
93% positive
1,570 reviews
Amanda the Adventurer 2
First-person horror puzzle adventure through a library and interactive tapes
83% positive
1,566 reviews
Hero of the Kingdom III
Isometric point-and-click RPG about gathering, crafting, and helping villagers
78% positive
1,565 reviews
Astalon: Tears of the Earth
Pixel-art action-platformer where dying lets you upgrade three heroes
90% positive
1,563 reviews
Cavern of Dreams
N64-style 3D platformer searching open-ended worlds for stolen dragon eggs
92% positive
1,562 reviews
Stardeus
Space colony sim about rebuilding a broken ship with drones
87% positive
1,559 reviews
Ooblets
Farming and creature collecting with card-based dance battles
91% positive
1,557 reviews
Tracks - The Train Set Game
Toy train sandbox for building railways and riding them
94% positive
1,554 reviews
Kathy Rain: Director's Cut
1990s point-and-click detective mystery following a grandfather's clues
92% positive
1,553 reviews
Survisland / 实境求生
Open-world island survival with hands-on crafting and detailed metabolism
63% positive
1,552 reviews
Runes of Magic
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with combinable classes and siege battles
69% positive
Free
Blanc
Co-op puzzle adventure guiding a fawn and wolf cub home
78% positive
1,551 reviews
梦江湖
Open-world martial arts RPG with turn-based battles and choices
51% positive
1,548 reviews
Tomb Raider III (1998)
Third-person action adventure built around puzzles and dangerous jumps
84% positive
1,544 reviews
TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge
Motorcycle racing simulation on the winding Isle of Man course
72% positive
1,544 reviews
Corpse Party (2021)
Retro horror adventure in a haunted school with branching endings
91% positive
1,536 reviews
Necrosmith 2
Top-down tower defense with undead assembled from fantasy body parts
78% positive
1,526 reviews
Isle of Jura
Third-person island fishing game about collecting species for a report
63% positive
1,522 reviews
Song Of The Prairie
3D farming sim with giant crops and town relationships
78% positive
1,521 reviews
Mundaun
First-person Alpine horror adventure with hand-drawn art and puzzles
93% positive
1,514 reviews
Ocean's Heart
Top-down action RPG exploring flooded ruins for a missing father
82% positive
1,510 reviews