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.
Thief Simulator
First-person burglary simulator about scouting homes and stealing valuables
88% positive
40K reviews
EVE Online
Player-driven space MMO built around trade, exploration, and warfare
73% positive
Free
The Coffin of Andy and Leyley
Psychological horror adventure about choices and a toxic sibling bond
96% positive
39K reviews
Mirror's Edge™
First-person parkour action across rooftops in a monitored city
88% positive
39K reviews
Temtem
Online creature-collecting RPG with co-op and tactical turn-based battles
81% positive
39K reviews
Trailmakers
Physics-based vehicle-building sandbox for land, sea, air, and space
92% positive
39K reviews
Mouthwashing
First-person psychological horror aboard a wrecked space freighter with dwindling supplies
95% positive
39K reviews
Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc
Murder-mystery visual novel built around investigations and class trials
96% positive
39K reviews
Journey
Exploration adventure through ancient ruins with chance online companions
94% positive
39K reviews
The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe
First-person comedy adventure built around choices and contradictory endings
94% positive
36K reviews
Far Cry® 6
Open-world first-person shooter about overthrowing an island dictatorship
71% positive
36K reviews
Wartales
Open-world tactical RPG about managing a medieval mercenary band
86% positive
36K reviews
Amnesia: The Dark Descent
First-person survival horror where hiding and running replace fighting
95% positive
36K reviews
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Open-world dark fantasy RPG shaped by choices and Arthurian legend
88% positive
36K reviews
Chants of Sennaar
Language-decoding puzzle adventure about reconnecting five peoples in a tower
98% positive
35K reviews
Crime Scene Cleaner
First-person cleaning simulation about erasing bloody crime scenes
98% positive
34K reviews
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Open-world space survival sandbox with freeform ship and base building
78% positive
34K reviews
Superliminal
First-person puzzle game built around perspective and optical illusions
95% positive
34K reviews
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Party-based Star Wars RPG where choices shape your path
91% positive
34K reviews
Unheard - Voices of Crime
Audio-based detective puzzle about tracing voices through past crime scenes
96% positive
34K reviews
Steep™
Open-world winter sports action across the Alps and Alaska
83% positive
33K reviews
We Were Here
Two-player castle escape puzzles built around voice communication
89% positive
Free
The Talos Principle
First-person puzzle adventure through ruins and questions about consciousness
95% positive
33K reviews
Depth
Team-based underwater action game pitting armed divers against sharks
88% positive
33K reviews