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
8,037 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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DARK SOULS™ II
Dark fantasy action RPG built around punishing combat and exploration
87% positive
36K reviews
GeoGuessr Steam Edition
A geography puzzle game about identifying places from street-level clues
69% positive
Free
Demo Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon
Open-world dark fantasy RPG shaped by choices and Arthurian legend
86% positive
35K reviews
Steep™
Open-world winter sports action across the Alps and Alaska
82% positive
35K reviews
Mirror's Edge™
First-person parkour action across rooftops in a monitored city
87% positive
34K reviews
RuneScape: Dragonwilds
Open-world survival RPG with crafting, magic, and dragon hunting
79% positive
34K reviews
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Crime Scene Cleaner
First-person cleaning simulation about erasing bloody crime scenes
98% positive
34K reviews
Wartales
Open-world tactical RPG about managing a medieval mercenary band
85% positive
33K reviews
Guild Wars 2®
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around exploration and dynamic events
87% positive
Free
Temtem
Online creature-collecting RPG with co-op and tactical turn-based battles
83% positive
33K reviews
SCP: Containment Breach Multiplayer
Multiplayer survival horror about escaping a containment facility full of anomalies
83% positive
Free
Demo Chants of Sennaar
Language-decoding puzzle adventure about reconnecting five peoples in a tower
98% positive
32K reviews
Unheard - Voices of Crime
Audio-based detective puzzle about tracing voices through past crime scenes
96% positive
32K reviews
UNCHARTED™: Legacy of Thieves Collection
Third-person treasure-hunting adventures with climbing, gunfights, and puzzles
90% positive
32K reviews
Anno 1800
Industrial-era city builder focused on production chains and global trade
80% positive
31K reviews
Generation Zero®
Open-world survival shooter about guerrilla warfare against deadly machines
75% positive
31K reviews
Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
Gothic side-scrolling action RPG with castle exploration and varied builds
93% positive
31K reviews
Dwarf Fortress
Dwarven colony simulation where deep systems turn failure into history
94% positive
31K reviews
Superliminal
First-person puzzle game built around perspective and optical illusions
95% positive
31K reviews
The Talos Principle
First-person puzzle adventure through ruins and questions about consciousness
95% positive
30K reviews
RuneScape ®
Open-world fantasy MMORPG built around quests, skills, and boss fights
82% positive
Free
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Open-world space survival sandbox with freeform ship and base building
78% positive
30K reviews
Universe Sandbox
Physics-based space sandbox for building and destroying planetary systems
96% positive
30K reviews
STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™
Party-based Star Wars RPG where choices shape your path
90% positive
30K reviews