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.
Goat Simulator
Open-world sandbox where a goat scores points for destruction
91% positive
70K reviews
Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach
First-person survival horror across a vast animatronic-filled entertainment complex
86% positive
70K reviews
ICARUS
First-person survival crafting across persistent worlds and timed missions
75% positive
69K reviews
DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT
Third-person delivery adventure about reconnecting a post-apocalyptic America
92% positive
69K reviews
Dishonored 2
First-person stealth action with supernatural powers and flexible assassinations
90% positive
67K reviews
Core Keeper
Underground mining sandbox with crafting, base building, and online co-op
93% positive
67K reviews
SILENT HILL 2
Third-person psychological horror about searching a fogbound town for answers
95% positive
65K reviews
OneShot
Pixel-art puzzle adventure where the world knows you exist
98% positive
65K reviews
Chained Together
Co-op 3D platformer where chained climbers share every mistake
90% positive
64K reviews
Ori and the Blind Forest
2D action platformer with ability-based exploration through a dying forest
94% positive
60K reviews
Stormworks: Build and Rescue
Open-world vehicle-building sandbox with programmable air and sea rescues
91% positive
60K reviews
Abiotic Factor
First-person survival crafting as scientists in a breached underground laboratory
96% positive
59K reviews
Rain World
Difficult 2D survival platformer about escaping predators and deadly rain
94% positive
57K reviews
DREDGE
Open-world fishing adventure where night brings Lovecraftian danger
96% positive
57K reviews
Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales
Open-world superhero action with web-swinging, stealth, and electric combat
93% positive
57K reviews
The Long Drive
First-person desert driving sandbox with survival and car maintenance
88% positive
56K reviews
Lords of the Fallen
Souls-like action RPG across parallel realms of living and dead
68% positive
56K reviews
SnowRunner
Open-world truck simulation for hauling cargo through mud and snow
90% positive
56K reviews
Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition
Open-world post-apocalyptic RPG built around exploration, choice, and targeted combat
82% positive
56K reviews
Wuthering Waves
Open-world action RPG with fast combat and freeform traversal
88% positive
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Atomic Heart
Single-player sci-fi FPS in a robot-filled Soviet alternate history
81% positive
55K reviews
Prey
First-person sci-fi immersive sim with open-ended space station exploration
91% positive
55K reviews
A Hat in Time
Colorful 3D collectathon with acrobatic movement and ability-granting hats
98% positive
53K reviews
Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition
Cozy management adventure about ferrying spirits toward the afterlife
95% positive
53K reviews