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.
Accident: The Pilot
First-person car crash simulation with first aid and investigations
70% positive
Free
Nemesis: Lockdown
Turn-based sci-fi horror board game about survival and betrayal
68% positive
821 reviews
Sonder
Side-scrolling co-op puzzle platformer built around complementary character abilities
90% positive
Free
Backrooms: Extractions
First-person co-op horror built around rescue and extraction missions
74% positive
819 reviews
Lonely Mountains: Snow Riders
Downhill skiing racer with shortcuts and shared-checkpoint online co-op
92% positive
811 reviews
Tree Simulator 2023
Third-person tree simulation with roaming roots and changing seasons
95% positive
810 reviews
Heroine Anthem Zero 2 : Scalescars Oath
Side-scrolling action RPG about a priestess searching for home
82% positive
809 reviews
Survival Machine
Third-person survival adventure about building and defending a moving fortress
70% positive
808 reviews
Balrum
Open-world isometric RPG with turn-based combat, crafting, and farming
79% positive
807 reviews
The Last Clockwinder
VR puzzle game where clones repeat your recorded actions
96% positive
807 reviews
Spirittea
Life sim about helping spirits and running a bathhouse
84% positive
797 reviews
Mainframe Defenders
Turn-based robot squad tactics with procedural missions and item builds
88% positive
795 reviews
Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten
Party-based fantasy JRPG about searching for a supposedly dead father
81% positive
793 reviews
Tomba! Special Edition
2.5D platform adventure with quests, hidden treasures, and pig enemies
89% positive
793 reviews
Zet Zillions
Space roguelike deckbuilder with card fusion and planet overpopulation
88% positive
791 reviews
Blossom Tales: The Sleeping King
Top-down action adventure through dungeons in a changing bedtime story
86% positive
789 reviews
FATE: Reawakened
Fantasy action RPG with four games and randomized dungeons
74% positive
788 reviews
Hero of the Kingdom: The Lost Tales 2
Isometric point-and-click adventure about gathering supplies to restore a kingdom
89% positive
787 reviews
Prehistoric Hunt
Open-world dinosaur hunting where the prey also hunts you
84% positive
785 reviews
Dustborn
Story-driven road trip adventure with word-powered combat and branching conversations
66% positive
778 reviews
Amazing Frog? 2
Open-world physics sandbox where frogs drive, shoot, and explore
77% positive
777 reviews
Winter Survival
First-person winter survival with crafting and a sanity system
63% positive
776 reviews
Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX
Crafting-focused JRPG with kingdom deadlines and multiple endings
92% positive
771 reviews
The Happyhills Homicide 2: Out For Blood
Side-scrolling horror adventure switching between killer, detective, and avenger
96% positive
771 reviews