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.
100 Crime Cats
Hidden-object cat hunt across two hand-drawn, crime-themed levels
95% positive
111 reviews
Embracelet
Story-driven puzzle adventure with a telekinetic bracelet on a Norwegian island
94% positive
110 reviews
FANTATALE
Free-to-play fantasy MMORPG with boss fights and home decorating
55% positive
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Silent North
First-person survival shooter in the Swiss Alps against players and infected
33% positive
110 reviews
SAVE
First-person survival horror aboard a ship hiding supernatural threats
51% positive
109 reviews
Aureole - Wings of Hope
Fast 2D platformer built around a rolling, bouncing halo
96% positive
104 reviews
Sacabambaspis Chronicle
Underwater action RPG about a fish eating plankton to evolve
90% positive
103 reviews
Warlords III: Darklords Rising
Turn-based fantasy strategy about conquering territory with heroes and magic
92% positive
102 reviews
Eclipse - 2nd Dawn for the Galaxy
Turn-based space board game of exploration and faction combat
58% positive
102 reviews
HAINYA WORLD
Side-scrolling sandbox RPG with monster battles and base building
81% positive
101 reviews
Laundry & Supermarket Simulator
First-person shop simulator mixing laundry service and retail management
80% positive
100 reviews
Nancy Drew®: The Deadly Device
Point-and-click detective adventure about a suspicious death in a research lab
92% positive
97 reviews
Tex Murphy: The Pandora Directive
Detective adventure with live-action scenes and a branching Roswell mystery
87% positive
97 reviews
EternaMine
Top-down mining game with upgrades, dungeon fights, and idle extraction
79% positive
97 reviews
Carmen Sandiego
Globe-trotting detective adventure where a thief hunts VILE operatives
70% positive
97 reviews
Tennis Manager 25
Tennis management game about developing players and coaching matches
69% positive
94 reviews
Rebecca and the Sword of Nasty Curses
Fantasy RPG about rescuing kidnapped villagers with a cursed sword
76% positive
94 reviews
The UnderGarden
Casual cavern exploration puzzler with plant growth and fruit physics
64% positive
90 reviews
Hotel 188
First-person psychological horror with shifting hotel rooms and environmental puzzles
90% positive
88 reviews
Little Life: Island Tales
Open-world life sim about farming and exploring seaside islands
83% positive
86 reviews
Dreaming Isles
Island farming sim with sailing, naval combat, and rival factions
50% positive
86 reviews
HOMESICKNESS
Point-and-click psychological horror in a daycare with shifting exits
93% positive
85 reviews
Nancy Drew® Dossier: Lights, Camera, Curses!
Point-and-click hidden-object mystery on a troubled Hollywood movie set
70% positive
83 reviews
Barbie Project Friendship™
Casual adventure restoring a Malibu community center through minigames
75% positive
83 reviews