Exploration 2020 for PlayStation 4 — top best games in the Exploration genre

Assassin's Creed Valhalla - a game in the Exploration genre

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Stealth, Third-person view, Historical, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 10 November 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 82/100

Assassin's Creed Valhalla is an action-adventure game from a third-person perspective with RPG elements set in an open, well-developed, dynamically changing game...

SnowRunner

Racing, Simulation, Sandbox, Exploration, Open world, Online, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 April 2020

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The continuation of the off-road driving simulator Spintires: MudRunner. You can expect realistic control mechanics, a well-developed gameplay process, as well as...

Supraland

Action, Shooter, Platformer, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 22 October 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 95/100

Supraland is an exciting action platformer with a first-person view. In the game you have to solve fun puzzles, explore the environment, find secrets and fight...

The Pathless

Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Music game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 November 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 78/100

The Pathless — a first-person fantasy adventure from the creators of ABZU. You will become a hunter on a mystical island and dispel a certain curse. In the...

Journey to the Savage Planet

Adventure, First-person view, Online, Cooperative (co-op), Action, Comedy, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 January 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

A vibrant action adventure in an open world. At the direction of the Kindred Aerospace corporation, the hero is sent to a distant planet. He will have to explore...

60 Seconds! Reatomized

Simulation, Business / Management, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Point & Click, Survival, Comedy, Strategy, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 March 2020

Steam: 95/100

An updated version of the black comedy 60 Seconds! with survival elements, where a few dozen seconds separate ordinary family life from a nuclear apocalypse...

Beyond Blue

Simulation, Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 11 June 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Beyond Blue is an action-adventure game with a third-person view in a sci-fi setting from the creators of Never Alone. Beyond Blue takes place in the near future...

Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Anime / Manga, Adventure, In real time, Exploration, Crafting, Turn-based, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 December 2020

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Atelier Ryza 2: Lost Legends & the Secret Fairy is a Japanese-style role-playing adventure viewed from the third person, which is a sequel to Atelier Ryza: Ever...

Raji: An Ancient Epic

Role-playing game, Action, Isometric, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 15 October 2020

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 70/100

Raji: An Ancient Epic is an isometric action role-playing game in a fantasy setting. The setting is based on Hindu and Balinese mythologies. The game takes you into...

Those Who Remain

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Survival horror, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 28 May 2020

Players: 7.3/10

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 52/100

Those Who Remain is a psychological horror adventure with a first-person view. You have to go to the fictional American town of Dormont, which is engulfed in...

Bugsnax

Adventure, First-person view, Fantasy, Open world, Comedy, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 12 November 2020

Players: 8.3/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 76/100

Explorer Elizabert Megafig invites the main character to the sunny Snaktooth Island, which is inhabited by unusual creatures. The researcher has disappeared, and...

Monster Sanctuary

Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy / Medieval, Turn-based, Indie, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 8 December 2020

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 78/100

Monster Sanctuary is a side-scrolling pixel Metroidvania in a fantasy setting, in which you become monster trainers and can fight in 3v3 tactical battles...

Metal Max Xeno: Reborn

Role-playing game, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Tanks, Combat robots, Post-apocalyptic, Japanese role-playing game, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 July 2020

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 72/100

Metal Max Xeno: Reborn is an enhanced edition of the Japanese-style sci-fi RPG with turn-based combat, where you fight with futuristic vehicles. The game takes...

Relicta

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 August 2020

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Relicta is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. You have to try on the role of a chief physicist stuck on an abandoned lunar base...

Paper Beast

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Virtual Reality (VR), Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 24 March 2020

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Paper Beast is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view for PlayStation VR virtual reality devices. The game will tell about the world inside the vast...

Re:Turn - One Way Trip

Exploration, Horror, Trains

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 29 October 2020

Steam: 79/100

Metacritic: 67/100

This 2D side-scrolling horror puzzle-adventure takes place aboard a ghostly train. Saki searches the past and present for her friends, trying to find and save them...

Quest Hunter

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 4 September 2020

Players: 10/10

Steam: 79/100

Quest Hunter is an action-adventure action RPG with an isometric camera view in a fantasy setting. The game takes place in the Dark World, where fire and a shovel...

No Straight Roads

Action, Adventure, Slasher, Music game, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 25 August 2020

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 71/100

No Straight Roads is a musical action-slasher game with a third-person view. The game tells the story of an independent rock band that goes up against a powerful...

Ara Fell

Role-playing game, Adventure, Anime / Manga, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Turn-based, Japanese role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 26 March 2020

Steam: 94/100

Ara Fell is an indie role-playing adventure in a fantasy setting with pixel graphics. A large open world awaits you to explore with many mysteries and mystical...

Carto

Adventure, Top-down view, Puzzle, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 October 2020

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 75/100

Carto is an unusual adventure game built around a unique world-changing puzzle. Locations consist of blocks, and the player can change their places at his...

9th Dawn 3

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Adventure, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 6 October 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 87/100

9th Dawn 3 is a continuation of the classic top-down RPG set in the medieval setting of 9th Dawn. The game offers a more detailed world open to exploration, a new...

Cave Digger

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Virtual Reality (VR), Exploration, Hidden Objects

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 November 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 82/100

Cave Digger is a free-to-play action adventure game with a first-person view for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift and Windows Mixed Reality. In this...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 December 2020

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 81/100

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Manifold Garden

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 18 August 2020

Players: 7/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 80/100

Manifold Garden is an atmospheric puzzle game from independent developer William Chir. The game is imbued with the creativity of the surrealist artist Escher. The...

Mask of Mists

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Action, Puzzle, Metroidvania, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 2 September 2020

Steam: 85/100

Mask of Mists is an action-adventure game with a first-person view and various puzzles. You will explore fabulous locations full of magical artifacts and all kinds...

Micetopia

Side view, Adventure, Action, Platformer, Role-playing game, Fantasy / Medieval, Exploration, Metroidvania

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 20 November 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 37/100

Micetopia is a classic side-scrolling Metroid set in a medieval mouse kingdom with magic and dragons. The main character, a brave mouse, lived quietly in his...

Curious Expedition

Role-playing game, Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Roguelike

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 April 2020

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Curious Expedition is a procedurally generated adventure role-playing game set in the 19th century. You can feel like a real explorer and discoverer. Choose one of...

The Suicide of Rachel Foster

Adventure, First-person view, Stealth, Horror, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 9 September 2020

Players: 8.1/10

Steam: 61/100

Metacritic: 61/100

The Suicide of Rachel Foster is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view and horror elements. The main character ends up in her childhood home after her...

La-Mulana 2

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

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 27 June 2019

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 79/100

La-Mulana 2 is a sequel to the side-scrolling arcade platformer with lots of puzzles. This time the main character is the girl archaeologist Lumisa Kosugi, who...

Feather

Arcade, Adventure, Third-person view, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 30 September 2020

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 54/100

Feather is a cozy game about exploring and immersing yourself in a beautiful landscape. You will become a bird and feel the flight, dissolving in a Zen flow and...

Oniria Crimes

Adventure, Puzzle, Indie, Isometric, Fantasy, Logic, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 4 → 3 December 2020

Steam: 76/100

Oniria Crimes is an indie adventure with "Pont & Click" mechanics set in a pixelated dream world called "The Dream". A serial killer has begun to operate in dreams...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre of 2020 for PlayStation 4