Exploration
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Best Games in the Exploration genre for PlayStation 5
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Exploration, Open world, Medieval era, Crafting
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 February 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
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 September 2025
VGTimes:
7.0/10
Players:
8.2/10
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...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 25 July 2024
Players:
8.2/10
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, Shooter, Adventure, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Science fiction, Exploration
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 April 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...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026
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...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Sandbox, Exploration, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 March 2023
Players:
8.3/10
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...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Science fiction, Exploration
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 11 October 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...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Open world, Exploration
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 March 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...
Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 April 2022
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...
Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 27 August 2024
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...
Adventure, Action, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Exploration, Collection
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 6 October 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...
Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Shooter, Mysticism / Supernatural, Open world, Exploration
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 March 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...
Action, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Procedural generation, Survival horror
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 April 2026
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)
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 January 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...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting, Indie
Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 April 2025
Players:
7.9/10
Metacritic:
66/100
The game takes place on Earth destroyed by an environmental disaster. To survive and understand what happened, the hero collects resources, fights dangers, searches...
