Exploration for PlayStation 5 — top best games in the Exploration genre / Page 13

Titan Chaser - a game in the Exploration genre

Adventure, Walking Simulator, Open world, Exploration, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 April 2024

Players: 10/10

Steam: 82/100

The main character drives a car around the territory where various scientific stations are located, and drives away titans (huge monsters) using a powerful...

The Age of Bhaarat

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Fantasy

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2027

A fantasy game set in ancient India. The main character defends his homeland from the invasion of demons, using traditional weapons, powerful artifacts and the...

Manifold Garden

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 May 2021

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...

In Nightmare

Action, Adventure, Horror, Strategy, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 29 March 2022

Players: 9.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Metacritic: 53/100

In Nightmare is a third-person action-horror adventure that takes you into the mysterious world of dreams. You have to help a little boy get out of a creepy world...

Last Days of Lazarus

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 28 October 2022

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 60/100

Last Days of Lazarus is a first-person horror adventure that takes you to a post-Soviet state located in Eastern Europe. The game tells the story of a man who...

The Touryst

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 September 2021

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 79/100

The Touryst is an action-adventure game with a third-person view, made in pixel style. In the game you will go to conquer the Monument Islands, where a lot of fun...

Summertime Madness

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 26 January 2022

Steam: 68/100

Summertime Madness is an atmospheric adventure with a first-person view. The events of the game will take you to Prague in 1945, where you will try on the role of...

Lifeless Moon

Action, Adventure, Indie, Third-person view, Science fiction, Platformer, Exploration, Space

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 July 2024

Steam: 78/100

Metacritic: 64/100

During an expedition to the Moon, two astronauts find themselves in a familiar town, just like on Earth. They soon discover that the city is the beginning of a...

The Gap

First-person view, Science fiction, Horror, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 October 2023

Steam: 60/100

A sci-fi thriller about neuroscientist Joshua Hayes. The main character is faced with a rare disease that erases memories. But he has a unique ability that allows...

Kingdom Shell

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 September 2025

Players: 10/10

Steam: 88/100

The kingdom's defenses were destroyed and nightmarish creatures began to attack local residents. The main character is a half-breed who can resist monsters. The...

Alchemist: The Potion Monger

Simulation, First-person view, Crafting, Action, Casual game, Open world, Sandbox, Exploration, Farm Simulator

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 May 2024

Steam: 80/100

A colorful simulator of a student learning the secrets of the art of alchemy in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. As the player progresses, he explores...

The Smurfs 2 - The Prisoner of the Green Stone

Arcade, Platformer, First-person view, Adventure, Puzzle, Exploration, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 November 2023

Steam: 79/100

The villain got hold of the powerful Green Stone and accidentally destroyed it. The released energy unleashed monsters. Now a team of Smurfs sets out on a dangerous...

Pathfinder: Wrath of the Righteous - A Dance of Masks

DLC, Role-playing game, Isometric, Adventure, Fantasy, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 13 June 2024

Players: 4/10

Steam: 85/100

In the final expansion, players gather all companions and return to the city of Kenabres to participate in the festival, socialize with friends, celebrate their...

The Lonesome Guild

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Top-down view, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 October 2025

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 70/100

A game about the memory that has lost memory and his new friends. The world envelops the fog of loneliness, infecting everyone in its path. Heroes explore...

Quern - Undying Thoughts

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 October 2023

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Quern - Undying Thoughts is a first-person adventure puzzle game about exploring the island of Quern and uncovering its mysteries. The player solves puzzles to...

Merchant of the Skies

Strategy, Adventure, In real time, Business / Management, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 7 June 2021

Players: 9.3/10

Steam: 87/100

Merchant of the Skies is a real-time management strategy with a side view. In the game, you will act as the captain of an airship, who will have to trade, collect...

Anima: Song from the Abyss

Role-playing game, Third-person view, Fantasy / Medieval, Slasher, Metroidvania, Exploration

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2027

Anticipation Rating: 6.3/10

Anima: Song from the Abyss is a third-person action RPG from the developers of Anima: Gate of Memories. The game features two main characters: a knight and a...

The Forest Quartet

Puzzle, Isometric, Exploration, Indie, Music game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 December 2022

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 71/100

A narrative puzzle game about the ghost of a dead singer. The player must visit several locations to gather all the band members for the farewell concert. Each...

Duskfade

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Fantasy, Exploration, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 13 August 2026

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

A fast-paced action-platformer about Zirián, who sets out to find his sister, who has fallen under the influence of Despair. The journey involves restoring the...

Empyreal

Action, Role-playing game, Third-person view, Adventure, Dungeons, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 May 2025

Steam: 69/100

Metacritic: 65/100

The game takes place on an unexplored planet where a huge Monolith was found, built by a vanished civilization. Inside are trials, secrets and discoveries that...

Tomba! 2: The Evil Swine Return Special Edition

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Fantasy, Exploration, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 December 2025

Steam: 91/100

Remaster of the action-platformer Tomba! 2 from 1999. The story centers around a wild boy with pink hair named Tomba, who embarks on an exciting journey to save...

Marsupilami: Hoobadventure

Side view, Exploration, Platformer

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 November 2022

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 68/100

This 2.5D platformer follows three Marsupilamis—Punch, Twister, and Hope—who live in Palombia. While playing on a beach, they accidentally open a sarcophagus and...

Master Lemon: The Quest for Iceland

Adventure, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 November 2025

Steam: 100/100

Metacritic: 85/100

A pixel-art adventure about Lemon, a polyglot who dreams of learning Icelandic and sets out to save a distant land from a threat that devours memories and endangers...

The Eternal Cylinder

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Futurism (Future), Open world, Exploration, Survival

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 13 October 2022

Players: 8.7/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 80/100

The Eternal Cylinder is a survival adventure game with a third-person view and an open world in a fantasy setting. The game takes place on an amazing planet, home...

XEL

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Isometric, Indie, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 April 2023

Steam: 48/100

Metacritic: 43/100

The main character Raid, by the will of fate, found herself in the strange world of the XEL ship. Her memory is like a blank slate that she is trying to fill...

Homebody

Adventure, Third-person view, Logic, Indie, Mysticism / Supernatural, Puzzle, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 June 2023

Steam: 93/100

Homebody is an 80's style survival horror game that follows a group of friends who are hunted by a ruthless killer. The plot tells the story of a young girl, Emily...

Ebenezer and the Invisible World

Metroidvania, Side view, Fantasy, Platformer, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 3 November 2023

Steam: 73/100

A game based on the book A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Ebenezer Scrooge and a team of shadowy allies battle a wealthy industrialist and his private guard to...

PAW Patrol World

Adventure, Online, Exploration, Sandbox, Action, Open world, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 29 September 2023

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 88/100

A fun adventure with a squad of puppies with super powers. The Paw Patrol Day Festival is almost here. Everyone in Adventure Bay is already excited. Everyone except...

Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split

Action, Shooter, Adventure, Third-person view, Exploration, Zombies, Survival horror, Role-playing game

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 November 2024

Players: 3.4/10

Steam: 50/100

Prologue for Outbreak: Shades of Horror. The game takes place in the sewers of a city where there has been an outbreak of a zombie virus. Players take on the role...

Angeline Era

Adventure, Top-down view, Exploration, Fantasy, Old school, Slasher

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 September 2026

Steam: 95/100

A dynamic game where a group of heroes explores a fantasy world based on Irish mythology and philosophy. The levels differ from each other — in some places, you...

Dracula: The Disciple

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Fantasy

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2027

An adventure game from the first person perspective with elements of mysticism, horror, and puzzles, set in the gloomy castle of Count Dracula. The main character...

Son of Thanjai

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Historical, Exploration, Open world

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2027

An action-adventure game set in an open world within an alternative history of the Chola Empire. The story centers around nineteen-year-old Prince Vinnendhira...

KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION

Adventure, Puzzle, First-person view, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 19 November 2021

Players: 10/10

KID A MNESIA EXHIBITION is an adventure puzzle game with a first-person view. It is a space of fever dreams in a structure built from the collected and reborn...

RWBY: Arrowfell

Arcade, Action, Adventure, Slasher, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Anime / Manga, Side view, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 November 2022

Steam: 72/100

RWBY: Arrowfell is an arcade action platformer with slasher elements and a side view in the RWBY universe. You will play as four members of Team RWBY — Ruby...

Amanda the Adventurer 2

Horror, First-person view, Old school, Adventure, Puzzle, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 16 October 2025

Players: 6.5/10

Steam: 83/100

Sequel to Amanda the Adventurer, in which Riley encounters a mysterious masked figure after destroying the TV in the attic. The main character goes to the Kensdale...

Sephonie

Adventure, Platformer, Third-person view, Indie, Exploration, Parkour

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 July 2023

Steam: 95/100

The game takes place in the near future, where three biologists embark on a joint expedition. They were supposed to use special devices to study the inhabitants of...

White Day 2: The Flower That Tells Lies

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Detective, Action, Puzzle

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 August 2024

Steam: 45/100

On the night of March 14, 2001, exactly the day after the accident at Yongdu High School, four boys return there to solve haunting mysteries. All people are talking...

The Suicide of Rachel Foster

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 12 September 2024

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...

Monster Harvest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Simulation, Business / Management, Top-down view, Indie, Farm Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 August 2021

Players: 9/10

Steam: 53/100

Metacritic: 57/100

Monster Harvest is a colorful adventure farming simulator with a top-down view. In the game you will go on an unforgettable adventure — you will start a new...

Cosmonious High

Virtual Reality (VR), Arcade, Adventure, First-person view, Science fiction, Sandbox, Exploration, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 22 February 2023

Players: 10/10

Steam: 94/100

Cosmonious High is an exciting adventure sandbox with a first-person view in a science fiction setting for virtual reality devices HTC Vive, Oculus Rift, Valve...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for PlayStation 5