Exploration 2014 — top best games in the Exploration genre

Elite Dangerous - a game in the Exploration genre

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, Flight Simulator, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Open world, Space, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox One, PlayStation 4 → 16 December 2014

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 40/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Elite Dangerous is a reboot of the legendary space simulator of the 80s. The Empire is on the brink of chaos. The Emperor is ill, and a fierce struggle for the...

Botanicula

Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Arcade, Casual game, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac, iOS, Android → 8 May 2012

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Botanicula is an adventure arcade puzzle game with a third-person view. In this game you will find a relaxing atmosphere, a huge number of detailed locations that...

Slender: The Arrival

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Mysticism / Supernatural, Survival horror

Game released: PC, Mac, PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, Wii U, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, Android, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X/S → 28 October 2013

Players: 8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 63/100

Continuation of the atmospheric horror with a first-person view Slender. The story tells of Slenderman, a paranormal figure who haunts inquiring minds around the...

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter

Action, Adventure, Horror, In real time, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Detective, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch → 25 September 2014

Players: 6.8/10

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. You take control of a detective searching for a missing boy...

Deadnaut

Space, Exploration, Survival horror

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 27 November 2014

Steam: 67/100

This squad-based survival horror game sends a team to explore the derelict ships of extinct civilizations. Five Deadnauts investigate their surroundings and fight...

VVVVVV

Arcade, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC, Linux, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, iOS, Android, PS Vita, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 → 11 January 2010

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 85/100

VVVVVV is an arcade indie platformer with a side view. You play as the fearless leader of a team of dimension explorers who have crashed and lost contact with each...

World of Diving

Simulation, First-person view, Sports game, Indie, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac → 26 August 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 49/100

World of Diving is a multiplayer diving simulator in which players explore the ocean and take on underwater missions, with optional VR support. Dives include...

Cave Story+

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Metroidvania

Game released: PC, Mac, Nintendo 3DS, Nintendo Switch → 22 November 2011

Players: 10/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 88/100

Cave Story+ is a supplemented and improved version of the arcade action-platform with the side of the Cave Story. You have to go to a fascinating world where an...

Detective Grimoire

Point & Click, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: PC, iOS → 18 August 2014

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 83/100

This point-and-click detective puzzle follows an investigation into the murder of the owner of a small tourist attraction in the marshes. The victim appears to have...

Creativerse

Role-playing game, Simulation, Action, MMO, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration, Sandbox, Construction

Game released: PC, Mac → 12 August 2014

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 75/100

Creativerse is a free-to-play multiplayer sandbox with a first-person view, where you can transform the world as you wish. You will be able to explore the worlds of...

Aveyond 3-1: Lord of Twilight

Japanese role-playing game, Comedy, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 February 2014

Steam: 79/100

A humorous role-playing game about exploring a large world and stopping a madman from fulfilling a prophecy and enslaving humanity. Two hundred years ago, a...

The Unfinished Swan

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 3, PlayStation 4, PS Vita, PC, iOS → 23 October 2012

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The Unfinished Swan is an interactive adventure with a first-person view. In the game you control a boy who chased a swan and ended up in a strange invisible world...

Lifeless Planet

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Exploration, Space

Game released: PC, Mac, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch, Linux → 6 March 2014

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 59/100

Lifeless Planet is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting. The game tells the story of an astronaut who discovers an abandoned Soviet...

A Date in the Park

Exploration, Point & Click, Horror

Game released: PC → 14 November 2014

Steam: 87/100

This point-and-click adventure with horror elements follows Lou on a date with Catarina in a Lisbon park that soon feels far from ordinary. Lou has recently moved...

Rodina

Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 28 July 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

This space action-adventure focuses on exploration across a seamless, procedurally generated solar system. The player explores planets and asteroids, discovers...

NaissanceE

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Free game, Exploration, Indie, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 13 February 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 66/100

NaissanceE is a geometric puzzle with elements of the play of light and shadow. A mysterious and magical exploration, a philosophical journey and an artistic...

Hohokum

Arcade, Adventure, Platformer, Logic, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 4, PlayStation 3, PS Vita, PC → 12 August 2014

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This adventure game with puzzle and platforming elements follows a curious flying, kite-like being as it travels through colorful, unusual worlds. The player can...

Quest of Dungeons

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Dungeons, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux, iOS, Xbox One, PlayStation 4, Nintendo Switch → 25 March 2014

Steam: 78/100

This turn-based dungeon crawler with 16-bit retro visuals follows a group of heroes confronting the Dark Lord, who has stolen all the light. Players choose a...

Unrest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 23 July 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This story-driven role-playing adventure is set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India, where five ordinary people struggle to survive in the famine-stricken...

Meadowland

Indie, Side view, Arcade, Simulation, Exploration

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 22 October 2014

Steam: 64/100

An interactive poem about a faerie exploring a world of dreams, magic, and distant places. The player can choose the pace and route, encountering magic, secrets...

In Fear I Trust

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PC, iOS, Android → 22 September 2016

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 44/100

Metacritic: 61/100

In Fear I Trust is a first-person sci-fi adventure horror game. The events of the game take place on the territory of the USSR in the 80s, where the main character...

Amazing Frog?

Arcade, Simulation, Action, Indie, Sandbox, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac → 20 November 2014

Players: 7.5/10

Steam: 94/100

An open-world physics sandbox turns Swindon into a playground for farting ragdoll frogs that can be flung around by collisions. In Amazing Frog?, players explore...

Unearthed: Trail of Ibn Battuta

Action, Shooter, Third-person view, Platformer, Exploration

Game released: PC, PlayStation 3, Mac, Android, iOS → 3 January 2014

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 60/100

Ultraworld

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 5 December 2014

Steam: 75/100

This first-person adventure combines exploration of an abstract world with a science-fiction story and open-ended creative play. The player wanders through its...

Black Ice

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Steampunk, Exploration, Cyberpunk, Open world

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 9 July 2014

Steam: 78/100

This first-person cyberpunk shooter with role-playing elements takes place in an open cyberspace where corporations protect their data with artificial intelligence...

Influent

Simulation, Strategy, Educational game (Education), Logic, Indie, Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 20 March 2014

Players: 7/10

Steam: 73/100

Influent is a language learning game that focuses on vocabulary and pronunciation. You will be able to immerse yourself in a fully interactive 3D environment where...

Old City: Leviathan

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 3 December 2014

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This first-person adventure is set in a decaying city left behind by a long-gone civilization. The player takes the role of an isolationist living in the sewers and...

Space Expedition: Classic Adventure

Arcade, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Indie, Exploration, Adventure

Game released: iOS, PC → 13 November 2014

Steam: 92/100

Space Expedition: Classic Adventure is an arcade game with platformer and puzzle elements from the developers of the Mobirate Ltd studio. The game is published by...

Elegy for a Dead World

Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC, Mac, Linux → 10 December 2014

Players: 10/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 65/100

An adventure about exploring three dead worlds and writing stories about their long-vanished societies. The settings draw inspiration from the poetry of Keats...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre of 2014 (Game released)