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

Kona 2: Brume - a game in the Exploration genre

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 18 October 2023

Players: 8.6/10

The game takes place in Canada in 1970. A certain haze cut off a small mining village from the whole world. Private detective Karl Faber is trying to understand its...

Beasts of Maravilla Island

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Puzzle, Casual game, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 3 November 2022

Beasts of Maravilla Island is a casual action-adventure game with a third-person view in the fantasy genre. The protective magic of the island of Maravilla is...

Catmaze

Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Adventure, Role-playing game, Exploration, Fantasy, Anime / Manga

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 9 September 2022

Players: 10/10

Catmaze is an action adventure game in the Metroidvania genre with elements of anime and fantasy. Cats have always been the link between the worlds of Yav and Navi...

Paleo Pines

Action, Third-person view, Farm Simulator, Exploration, Casual game, Adventure

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 26 September 2023

Players: 8.9/10

Metacritic: 69/100

The game takes place on a colorful island where kind dinosaurs and eccentric people live. Together with their faithful companion, the dinosaur Lucky, players...

Wayward Strand

Adventure, Exploration, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 September 2022

Metacritic: 80/100

Wayward Strand is a narrative exploration game with humor and adventure. It's the summer of 1978, and Casey Beaumaris is doing everything to make this vacation the...

Farlands

Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Science fiction, Casual game, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Colorful sandbox in the spirit of Stardew Valley. The player gets an entire planet at their disposal, which the character buys at a very favorable price. The main...

Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land

Adventure, Action, Exploration, Third-person view, Slasher, Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Open world, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 March 2025

Metacritic: 79/100

The story of the journey in which Yumi and her companions are faced with their own memories and continue to go forward, despite the tests. The world of the game is...

Empyreal

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 May 2025

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...

JAWS: Retro Edition

Action, Adventure, Side view, Exploration, Old school

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 13 February 2026

A re-release of the classic game from 1987, timed with the release of Steven Spielberg's horror film "Jaws." The player is offered to control a boat and fight...

Bluey: The Videogame

Casual game, Adventure, Exploration, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 17 November 2023

Players: 10/10

An educational game for boys and girls of all ages, based on the animated series Bluey. Bluey and his family explore colorful locations, collect items for a sticker...

Decadent

Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Exploration, Open world

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 9.1/10

The main character is World War I veteran John Lorne. In the story, he becomes the host of a strange parasite, after which abnormal events begin to happen to...

Pacific Drive - Whispers in the Woods

Action, Racing, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 24 October 2025

The player enters a new area of the Olympic Exclusion Zone. It features eerie forests where a group of fanatics hides. Artifacts with mysterious effects, unique...

The Florist

Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Survival horror

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

The protagonist goes to a small town to deliver a bouquet of flowers. The settlement is engulfed in an unknown plague that turns people into monsters. She must...

The Knight Witch

Side view, Metroidvania, Shooter, Collectible card game (CCG), Exploration, Adventure, Comedy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 2 December 2022

Metacritic: 79/100

The Knight Witch is a fast-paced Metroidvania adventure with shooter elements, set in a hand-drawn world. The game tells about witch knights who are trying to repel...

Ambulance Life: A Paramedic Simulator

Simulation, Open world, Action, Exploration, Third-person view

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 6 February 2025

Players: 5.5/10

Metacritic: 44/100

An ambulance simulator in which the player responds to calls and saves people from death. The game has an open world and the ability to drive vehicles. The main...

The Lonesome Guild

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 October 2025

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...

Carmen Sandiego

Adventure, Puzzle, Exploration, Detective

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 4 March 2025

Metacritic: 70/100

The main character is the greatest thief in the world, who must track down a criminal syndicate before it can carry out its next big heist. Missions will take place...

Jusant

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 31 October 2023

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 84/100

Meditative action puzzle game about rock climbing. The main character is trying to conquer a disproportionately tall tower, while simultaneously exploring the...

Ultros

Side view, Metroidvania, Platformer, Action, Science fiction, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 13 February 2024

Metacritic: 80/100

The main character comes to his senses in a certain sarcophagus floating in space. The character explores areas of the ship and fights alien creatures to uncover...

Rebel Transmute

Metroidvania, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Adventure, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 March 2024

The main character sets off on a dangerous journey to uncover the mystery of her mother's disappearance. You can learn abilities that change your playing style to a...

NAIAD

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 December 2024

A relaxing adventure with minimalistic graphics. The main character, named Naiad, floats down a mysterious river and interacts with animals and plants to get to the...

The Shore

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

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Metacritic: 59/100

Atmospheric indie horror that takes you to the shore, where reality gradually gives way to nightmare. The story tells about a fisherman who finds himself on a...

The Mobius Machine

Side view, Action, Metroidvania, Platformer, Roguelike, Exploration, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 1 March 2024

Players: 8/10

The main character explores a huge alien world, where he fights with the ferocious local fauna and killer machines. You need to purchase equipment that will make...

Oddsparks: An Automation Adventure

Sandbox, Adventure, Top-down view, Construction, Open world, Cooperative (co-op), Online, Crafting, Exploration, Strategy, In real time

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 27 May 2025

A colorful strategy in the automation genre. Players go to explore a fairy-tale world inhabited by hard-working creatures — sparks. With the help of these...

Gift

Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Side view, Action, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 May 2024

Players: 8.5/10

A colorful action platformer in which the main character tries to escape from a giant ship before it sinks into the sea. The tilt of the ship and the water level in...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky - Enhanced Edition

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 May 2025

Players: 6.5/10

An updated version of the post-apocalyptic game S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky. The developers have improved the graphics and various effects. The main character is a...

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Prypiat - Enhanced Edition

Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 20 May 2025

Players: 7.5/10

An updated version of S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat, which has improved textures, lighting, reflections and much more. The main character is Major Degtyarev, who...

Last Time I Saw You

Adventure, Indie, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 October 2024

An adventure set in Japan in the 1980s. The main character named Ayumi takes her first hesitant steps into adulthood and faces a terrible curse that has fallen upon...

Voidling Bound

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

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Players: 9.2/10

Metacritic: 78/100

A science fiction role-playing action game where battles are combined with the cultivation and development of mysterious creatures known as voidlings. The action...

Trifox

Arcade, Isometric, Platformer, Shooter, Adventure, Action, Comedy, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 November 2022

An action-adventure platformer where players, in the role of a fearless hero, try to pass trials and save the hero's home from a deadly invasion. As you progress...

Monochrome Mobius: Rights and Wrongs Forgotten

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 5 September 2023

Players: 9.9/10

Metacritic: 66/100

In the small province of Ennakamuy, on the border of the great Yamato Empire, there lived a young man with his mother and sister. One day, at the behest of a local...

Exophobia

Shooter, First-person view, Old school, Exploration, Metroidvania, Science fiction

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 23 July 2024

An old-school pixel shooter made in the Metroidvania format and inspired by projects from the 90s. The main action takes place on a spaceship that was captured by...

Aeterna Lucis

Adventure, Platformer, Puzzle, Anime / Manga, Side view, Exploration, Fantasy

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 15 December 2021

Continuation of Aeterna Noctis, but with a new character. After the events of the first part, the Queen of Light must stop the destruction of the world by...

The Origin: Blind Maid

Shooter, Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Indie, Survival, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 10 May 2024

A dark horror adventure in which the story of sin and punishment intertwines with an ancient evil. The protagonist is a corrupt politician hiding from justice in...

COCOON

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 29 September 2023

Players: 10/10

Metacritic: 89/100

The game is a puzzle game in which gamers can manipulate worlds made in the form of spheres. Features include unique gameplay mechanics and a mysterious setting...

Herdling

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 August 2025

Metacritic: 73/100

Atmospheric adventure from the creators of FAR: Lone Sails. The main character embarks on a grand Alpine expedition with a herd of cute animals, climbing a...

Sunset Hills

Exploration, Adventure, Puzzle, Indie

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 21 August 2024

Players: 5.5/10

The game takes place in a world inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. After the army, the main character named Niko became a writer and went on a train journey. In...

Outbreak: Shades of Horror Chromatic Split

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

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 8 November 2024

Players: 3.4/10

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...

Athenian Rhapsody

Role-playing game, Action, Exploration, Comedy, Tactics, Adventure, Turn-based

Game released: PlayStation 5 → 14 May 2024

A humorous game in which the main character explores the world of Athens. The gamer must create a unique story by making important decisions. There are 16...

The Eternal Life of Goldman

Action, Adventure, Platformer, Indie, Exploration, Fantasy, Metroidvania

Game in development: PlayStation 5 → 2026

Anticipation Rating: 8.3/10

A hand-drawn adventure platformer with elements of exploration and battles, set on a mysterious Archipelago. Players will uncover the mysteries of the islands, seek...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for PlayStation 5