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.
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009)
Open-world fantasy RPG built around freeform exploration and character choice
95% positive
53K reviews
SOMA
First-person sci-fi horror about identity in an isolated underwater facility
96% positive
53K reviews
What Remains of Edith Finch
First-person narrative adventure exploring a family's home and final stories
96% positive
53K reviews
Just Cause 2
Open-world third-person action built around grappling, stunts, and destruction
91% positive
52K reviews
Backrooms: Escape Together
First-person co-op survival horror in procedurally generated Backrooms levels
89% positive
50K reviews
Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen
Open-world fantasy action RPG with climbable monsters and AI companions
88% positive
49K reviews
Stranded Deep
First-person open-world survival crafting across procedurally generated Pacific islands
74% positive
48K reviews
Marvel's Spider-Man 2
Open-world superhero action with two Spider-Men and web-swinging traversal
83% positive
48K reviews
DARK SOULS™ II
Dark fantasy action RPG built around punishing combat and exploration
88% positive
47K reviews
Inside the Backrooms
First-person co-op horror with changing puzzles and lurking entities
80% positive
47K reviews
The Stanley Parable
First-person exploration game with branching paths and reactive narration
92% positive
46K reviews
Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy
Third-person superhero adventure with team combat and consequential choices
94% positive
45K reviews
Assassin's Creed Valhalla
Open-world Viking action RPG built around exploration, raids, and choices
69% positive
45K reviews
Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - Enhanced Edition
Isometric fantasy CRPG with deep builds and consequential mythic choices
83% positive
44K reviews
My Time at Portia
Open-world life sim about crafting and rebuilding a workshop
91% positive
44K reviews
MudRunner
Off-road driving simulation about hauling cargo through Siberian mud
92% positive
44K reviews
Forager
2D sandbox crafting with island expansion and incremental upgrades
89% positive
44K reviews
UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Third-person treasure-hunting adventures with climbing, gunfights, and puzzles
91% positive
44K reviews
ATLAS
Open-world pirate survival MMO built around sailing and naval combat
47% positive
43K reviews
Pacify
First-person co-op horror missions where paranormal entities hunt you
86% positive
43K reviews
Generation Zero®
Open-world survival shooter about guerrilla warfare against deadly machines
72% positive
42K reviews
Bully: Scholarship Edition
Third-person open-world action at a chaotic boarding school
84% positive
42K reviews
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Gothic side-scrolling action RPG with castle exploration and varied builds
93% positive
42K reviews
Far Cry® Primal
First-person Stone Age action in an open world of predators
86% positive
41K reviews