Exploration
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Best Games in the Exploration genre for PC
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, First-person view, Historical, Exploration, Open world, Medieval era, Crafting
Game released: PC → 4 February 2025
VGTimes:
9.7/10
Players:
8.9/10
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: PC → 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, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Survival horror, Crafting, Online, Open world, Exploration
Early Access: PC → 24 February 2023; Game released: PC → 22 February 2024
Players:
8.1/10
Metacritic:
86/100
Continuation The Forest about survival in the woods. The main character sets out to search for a missing billionaire on a remote island and ends up in a...
Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Adventure, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Open world
Game released: PC → 31 August 2007
VGTimes:
7.0/10
Players:
8.4/10
Metacritic:
82/100
Post-apocalyptic shooter with role-playing elements and first-person view. The events take place in an alternative universe, where on April 12, 2006 at 14:33, an...
Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox
Early Access: PC → 13 December 2013; Game released: PC → 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...
Strategy, In real time, Business / Management, Isometric, City Building, Sandbox, Exploration, Historical, Cooperative (co-op)
Game released: PC → 16 April 2019
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...
Adventure, Online, Top-down view, Sandbox, Indie, Cooperative (co-op), Dungeons, Exploration, Crafting, Farm Simulator
Early Access: PC → 8 March 2022; Game released: PC → 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...
Role-playing game, Action, Online, Third-person view, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Fantasy, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 24 January 2024; Game in development: PC → 31 December 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...
Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), First-person view, Shooter, Mysticism / Supernatural, Open world, Exploration
Game released: PC → 25 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, Adventure, Online, Warships / Submarines, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 14 April 2026; Game in development: PC → 2028
VGTimes:
8.0/10
Players:
8.3/10
Cooperative PvE adventure in a world of pirates, pioneers, and treasure hunters. The game combines a classic formula of building, crafting, and battles with...
Role-playing game, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Action, Futurism (Future), Adventure, Open world, Exploration
Game released: PC → 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...
Online, Business / Management, Isometric, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Exploration, Construction, Farm Simulator
Game released: PC → 23 April 2025
A colorful farming simulator in which players explore the tropical eucalyptus forests and scorching deserts of an island inspired by the wild Australian outback. As...
Horror, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Indie, Science fiction, Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 16 October 2019; Game released: PC → 28 July 2021
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...
Shooter, Simulation, Online, First-person view, Sandbox, Post-apocalyptic, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 26 August 2023; Game in development: PC → 2026
Players:
8.2/10
An open world survival simulator. The game takes place in the near future, when glaciers have melted and global warming has submerged most of the land. As players...
Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Online, Third-person view, Anime / Manga, Turn-based, Science fiction, Exploration
Game released: PC → 26 April 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...
Adventure, Simulation, Isometric, Sandbox, Cooperative (co-op), Survival, Exploration, Open world, Construction, Crafting
Early Access: PC → 6 January 2026; Game in development: PC → 2027
Players:
7.6/10
A co-op game where characters explore a mysterious planet torn apart by repeated disasters. It is possible to build a complex industrial system to extract...
Role-playing game, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Adventure, Survival, Exploration, Sandbox, Open world, Crafting, Indie
Early Access: PC → 22 June 2023; Game released: PC → 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...
Action, Shooter, Adventure, DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Combat robots, Science fiction, Exploration
Game released: PC → 16 April 2026
VGTimes:
6.8/10
Players:
8.5/10
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...
Action, Online, First-person view, Cooperative (co-op), Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Procedural generation, Survival horror
Game released: PC → 1 April 2024
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...