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.
Quest for Glory 1-5
Fantasy adventure RPGs with puzzles and characters carried between games
95% positive
506 reviews
ASYLUM
First-person horror adventure investigating a mental hospital's past
84% positive
505 reviews
First Class Escape: The Train of Thought
Escape-room puzzle game about escaping a vintage luxury train
71% positive
503 reviews
Ancient Kingdoms
2D pixel-art RPG with dungeon exploration and four-player co-op
87% positive
502 reviews
100 hidden birds 2
Hidden-object game about finding birds in a hand-drawn city
93% positive
501 reviews
Terra Memoria
Turn-based RPG about ancient machines, puzzles, and village building
84% positive
497 reviews
Atelier Firis: The Alchemist and the Mysterious Journey DX
Fantasy RPG about crafting and exploring before an alchemy exam
74% positive
493 reviews
Elroy and the Aliens
Point-and-click puzzle adventure tracing a missing archaeologist across planets
97% positive
487 reviews
Feed the Deep
Underwater roguelike about collecting resources before oxygen runs out
89% positive
483 reviews
Hachishaku
First-person stalker horror about restoring shrines while evading a spirit
85% positive
480 reviews
Return to Mysterious Island
First-person point-and-click adventure about surviving and solving island mysteries
84% positive
479 reviews
Ikonei Island: An Earthlock Adventure
Top-down island adventure with crafting and creature-powered exploration
74% positive
476 reviews
Horizon
Turn-based space strategy with alien diplomacy and tactical ship combat
59% positive
475 reviews
Lingo 2
First-person word puzzles in a winding, nonlinear world
93% positive
473 reviews
One Way: The Elevator
Point-and-click puzzles to power an elevator through changing worlds
94% positive
472 reviews
Night is Coming
Colony survival strategy with nighttime monsters and temporary settlements
63% positive
469 reviews
For The Warp
Space roguelike deckbuilder with turn-based combat and procedural systems
73% positive
468 reviews
Anode Heart
Top-down creature-collecting RPG where monster resets raise their level caps
91% positive
468 reviews
KunKun dream Startles the Soul
First-person co-op horror escape game with puzzles and ghost animals
80% positive
468 reviews
AutoForge
Side-scrolling automation sandbox with mana-powered factories and dangerous exploration
87% positive
465 reviews
Underspace
Open-world space RPG with ship combat and strange storms
82% positive
465 reviews
Paper Bride 6 Nightmare
Chinese folklore horror puzzle game tracing nightmares through time
80% positive
465 reviews
looK INside - Chapter 1
Hand-drawn point-and-click adventure about piecing together a family's past
86% positive
463 reviews
Broken Roads
Isometric post-apocalyptic RPG with philosophical choices across Western Australia
52% positive
463 reviews