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.
Locomoto
Cozy train adventure about carrying passengers and customizing carriages
90% positive
665 reviews
Endoparasitic 2
Top-down survival horror with one-handed controls and manual reloading
87% positive
663 reviews
Shattered Planet
Turn-based sci-fi roguelike about exploring a changing alien planet
68% positive
660 reviews
BodyRecords
Bodycam horror exploration where speaking can draw creatures near
65% positive
652 reviews
Paper Bride 4 Bound Love
Chinese folklore horror game about solving Yichang Town's mysteries
78% positive
651 reviews
The Fishing Club 3D: Co-op Sport Angling
Free-to-play fishing sim with co-op angling and club tournaments
76% positive
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Alwa's Legacy
A 2D metroidvania with magic upgrades and dungeon puzzles
87% positive
649 reviews
The Anomaly Project
First-person co-op horror game about spotting changes to escape
82% positive
649 reviews
Backrooms Media
First-person co-op survival horror with puzzles and entity hunts
40% positive
648 reviews
The Coma 2B: Catacomb
2D survival horror with puzzles and a pursuing killer
75% positive
640 reviews
Zoria: Age of Shattering
Turn-based fantasy RPG with party combat and an upgradable outpost
78% positive
636 reviews
Pieces of me
First-person psychological thriller exploring memories in an empty school
88% positive
634 reviews
The Bad Kids
Psychological horror adventure about a student investigating unsettling mysteries
76% positive
633 reviews
Prodigal
Top-down action RPG with puzzle dungeons and character relationships
92% positive
632 reviews
BALAN WONDERWORLD
3D platformer using costumes to cross trap-filled stages
54% positive
630 reviews
The Falconeer: Revolution Remaster
Open-world aerial combat on a giant warbird over an ocean
78% positive
628 reviews
DigDigDrill
Underground mining game with puzzle-built drills and no enemies
95% positive
628 reviews
Darkstar One
Single-player space action game with ship upgrades and varied jobs
83% positive
627 reviews
SHEEPO
Combat-free 2D metroidvania where creature forms open new paths
96% positive
625 reviews
Windforge
Side-scrolling sandbox RPG with buildable airships and destructible terrain
68% positive
623 reviews
Mahokenshi - The Samurai Deckbuilder
Turn-based samurai deckbuilder with tactical movement across island maps
77% positive
623 reviews
Avadon: The Black Fortress
Isometric fantasy RPG with turn-based battles and a conspiracy to uncover
81% positive
622 reviews
The WILDS
Open-world animal survival sim about hunting, foraging, and exploration
76% positive
621 reviews
Bluey: The Videogame
Family-friendly adventure exploring Bluey's world through games and collectibles
75% positive
621 reviews