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.
Green Hell VR
VR survival game in the Amazon with hands-on crafting and healing
57% positive
1,257 reviews
Tower Factory
Tower defense driven by conveyor-belt factories on procedurally generated maps
90% positive
1,257 reviews
Astrox Imperium
Single-player space sandbox with mining, trading, and adjustable progression
84% positive
1,255 reviews
AWAKEN - Astral Blade
2.5D action platformer with parries, upgrades, and hidden paths
82% positive
1,255 reviews
Onigiri
Free-to-play anime action MMORPG with weapon-switching combat and companions
71% positive
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True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 1
Point-and-click horror mystery with puzzles and optional hidden-object scenes
92% positive
1,251 reviews
Touhou Artificial Dream in Arcadia
First-person dungeon crawler with turn-based battles and capturable clones
96% positive
1,243 reviews
Aircraft Carrier Survival
World War II carrier strategy with crew and aircraft management
60% positive
1,236 reviews
Badlands Crew - Drive, Command, Conquer
Open-world vehicular combat with custom-built trucks and crew management
79% positive
1,234 reviews
Wizardry 8
First-person fantasy dungeon crawler with custom parties and turn-based combat
89% positive
1,230 reviews
Mika and The Witch's Mountain
Cozy island adventure about delivering packages by magic broom
88% positive
1,227 reviews
PLAYNE : The Meditation Game
Meditation game where daily sessions grow trees on an island
93% positive
1,220 reviews
Goat Simulator: Remastered
Comedy sandbox game about causing chaos as a goat
88% positive
1,217 reviews
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First-person school horror with a relentless pursuer and no saves
88% positive
1,213 reviews
RIPOUT
Co-op sci-fi horror shooter with mutating monsters and a living gun
60% positive
1,211 reviews
The Silver Case
First-person crime adventure investigating serial murders in Tokyo's 24 Wards
89% positive
1,206 reviews
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build
Isometric puzzle game about pushing snowballs to build snowmen
95% positive
1,197 reviews
Incantation
First-person horror mystery following a mother into a cult-filled village
74% positive
1,196 reviews
Swords 'n Magic and Stuff
Cozy open-world RPG with hidden quests and online co-op
93% positive
1,195 reviews
Cosmonautica
Space trading and crew management in a procedurally generated galaxy
48% positive
1,190 reviews
Foretales
Card-based adventure about a thief facing an apocalyptic prophecy
85% positive
1,189 reviews
The Talos Principle: Reawakened
First-person puzzle adventure in a simulation with philosophical questions
91% positive
1,189 reviews
My Little Blacksmith Shop
Fantasy blacksmith sandbox for crafting gear and running a shop
69% positive
1,186 reviews
Darkwater
Co-op extraction horror with submarine battles and underwater scavenging
78% positive
1,186 reviews