Exploration
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Best Games in the Exploration genre
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Exploration, Open world, Medieval era, Crafting
February 4, 2025
VGTimes:
9.7/10
Players:
9/10
Metacritic:
88/100
A role-playing action game from the first person in the vast open world of Kingdom Come: Deliverance 2 is a direct continuation of the 2018 game and offers a return...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Open world
September 18, 2025
VGTimes:
7.0/10
Players:
8.4/10
Metacritic:
77/100
The story-driven spin-off of the Dying Light 2 Stay Human series with an open world and drivable vehicles. The game takes place in an entirely new location...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Open world
March 20, 2007
VGTimes:
7.0/10
Players:
8.4/10
Metacritic:
82/100
Post-apocalyptic shooter with role-playing elements and first-person view. The events take place in an alternative universe, where on April 12, 2006 at 14:33, an...
Action, Adventure, Online, Warships / Submarines, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
April 14, 2026
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.8/10
Cooperative PvE adventure in a world of pirates, pioneers, and treasure hunters. The game combines a classic formula of building, crafting, and battles with...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Science fiction, Exploration
April 16, 2026
VGTimes:
6.8/10
Players:
8.4/10
The expansion completes the story of Atomic Heart. Sergey Nechaev and the Twin will head to the "Crystal" complex to challenge the KRAZ in a relentless bloody...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox
December 13, 2013
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
41/100
Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...
Action, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
February 24, 2023
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
86/100
Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
January 24, 2024
Players:
8.4/10
The main character is Born of Flame, the last hope of a dying race. In a bloody struggle for power, the ancestors caused a plague that consumed the world and...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Science fiction, Exploration
April 26, 2023
Players:
8.9/10
Metacritic:
80/100
Adventure role-playing action game from the creators of Genshin Impact. The game tells the story of the passengers of the space train "Astral Express". The player...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Sandbox, Exploration, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)
April 16, 2019
Players:
8.4/10
Metacritic:
81/100
Anno 1800 is a new game in the real-time management strategy series Anno. The events unfold at the dawn of the industrial age, during the times of great...
Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator
March 8, 2022
Players:
7.7/10
Metacritic:
86/100
An arcade sandbox that you can play with friends in co-op for up to eight people. The main character is an explorer who wakes up in an ancient dungeon filled with...
Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Shooter, Mysticism / Supernatural, Open world, Exploration
March 22, 2022
Players:
8.6/10
Metacritic:
78/100
The game takes place in modern Tokyo. The plot begins at the famous Shibuya pedestrian crossing, when in an instant absolutely all the inhabitants of the city...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Open world, Exploration
March 1, 2022
Players:
7.4/10
Metacritic:
67/100
ELEX 2 is a continuation of the role-playing action game with a third-person view in a science fiction setting from the creators of Risen and Gothic. In the...
Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Exploration, Collection
October 6, 2023
Players:
8.6/10
Metacritic:
89/100
Complete Edition Horizon Forbidden West, which includes the original game and the expansion Horizon Forbidden West: Burning Shores. You will immerse yourself in...
Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
October 16, 2019
Players:
7/10
Metacritic:
78/100
A first-person shooter with exploration elements and horror. While exploring locations, the player collects resources to build a base and craft useful items, while...
Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
August 26, 2023
Players:
8.2/10
An open world survival simulator. The game takes place in the near future, when glaciers have melted and global warming has submerged most of the land. As players...
Action, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Procedural generation, Survival horror
April 1, 2024
Players:
8.2/10
A cooperative horror puzzle game in the spirit of Lethal Company. The game is about a group of bloggers trying to get viral on the local equivalent of YouTube. To...
DLC, Shooter, First-person view, Adventure, Combat robots, Exploration, Science fiction, Action, Futurism (Future)
January 28, 2025
Players:
8.6/10
Major Sergei Nechaev returns to Enterprise 3826, where he ends up at the Neptune underwater research center. There he will meet new opponents and unlock new weapons...