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
8,073 games on PC, with requirements, reviews and prices.
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Strangeland
Point-and-click horror adventure set in a carnival of strange creatures
92% positive
863 reviews
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The Brew Barons
Open-world seaplane game mixing brewery management and pirate combat
76% positive
863 reviews
Ocean Keeper: Dome Survival
Top-down mining roguelike with timed digging and underwater monster waves
78% positive
863 reviews
Wanderer
VR puzzle adventure about traveling through time to change history
83% positive
862 reviews
Starsand
First-person survival crafting across an open desert beneath two moons
68% positive
861 reviews
Demo Escape: Malice
Co-op horror puzzle adventure through a sunken Japanese mansion
18% positive
861 reviews
METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake
Two top-down stealth games built around avoiding enemy detection
83% positive
857 reviews
The Fidelio Incident
First-person exploration thriller about a plane crash and a hidden past
77% positive
856 reviews
Towards Future
Pixel-art exploration puzzles about a teddy bear AI seeking its owner
99% positive
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新世界:暗影成双
Live-action spy adventure where two players hold different information
76% positive
855 reviews
Don't Be Afraid
First-person horror about a kidnapped child solving a psychopath's puzzles
81% positive
854 reviews
Adorable Adventures
Nature exploration guided by a baby boar’s sense of smell
94% positive
854 reviews
Travellin Cats Around the World
Hidden-object cat search across illustrated locations around the world
97% positive
853 reviews
Cosmic Star Heroine
A sci-fi JRPG with turn-based combat and team combo attacks
90% positive
852 reviews
Kitsune Tails
A 2D platformer with costume powers and a fox-girl romance
95% positive
852 reviews
Windlands
First-person exploration platformer with grappling hooks across a ruined world
76% positive
851 reviews
[Chilla's Art] Okaeri | おかえり
Japanese horror walking simulator about a girl's return home
66% positive
851 reviews
Hans
A precision platformer where a watermelon climbs a warped Earth
86% positive
851 reviews
Sands of Aura
Isometric action RPG with tough combat and sailing across sand
75% positive
850 reviews
Wardwell House
A point-and-click horror story told through panoramic photographs
82% positive
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Tiny Room Stories: Town Mystery
Point-and-click mystery with escape-room puzzles and locations you can rotate
87% positive
850 reviews
SILT
Side-scrolling underwater puzzle adventure built around possessing sea creatures
79% positive
849 reviews
Demo Grand Emprise: Time Travel Survival
Time-travel survival crafting with base building from dinosaurs to space
69% positive
848 reviews
Autobahn Police Simulator 2
Highway police simulation with routine patrols and high-speed pursuits
54% positive
847 reviews