Exploration for PC — top best games in the Exploration genre / Page 54

Bang Bang Land - a game in the Exploration genre

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

Game released: PC → 22 March 2023

Steam: 76/100

A game for virtual reality glasses in which the gamer explores an abandoned amusement park. There are more than 20 different accuracy tests using weapons available...

qomp2

Puzzle, Platformer, Side view, Exploration, Action

Game released: PC → 20 February 2024

Steam: 68/100

Metacritic: 85/100

Reimagining Pong. The player controls a ball that needs to be guided through the location. The level features enemies and various traps. The controls are simple...

Soul's Spectrum

Role-playing game, Puzzle, Exploration, Fantasy, Top-down view, Metroidvania, Adventure

Game released: PC → 19 October 2023

Steam: 94/100

The main character finds herself in a mysterious dungeon with monsters and traps, from which she tries to get out. With each death, the heroine's body is...

7Groves

Adventure, Casual game, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Free game, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 1 June 2024

Steam: 67/100

A relaxing game in which the gamer leisurely strolls through beautiful and surreal forests that look like paintings come to life. Along the way, you can collect...

The Legend of Lumina

Top-down view, Metroidvania, Indie, Puzzle, Logic, Exploration

Game released: PC → 9 July 2024

Steam: 98/100

A Sokoban style game with non-linear progression. The gameplay is inspired by early Zelda games, with an emphasis on puzzle solving rather than combat. There are...

Donutis Simulator

Simulation, Business / Management, First-person view, Exploration, Runner, Construction

Game released: PC → 28 November 2022

Steam: 58/100

The player manages a café where delicious donuts are made. They need to purchase ingredients and then repeat all the actions specified in the recipe. They can also...

Honu

First-person view, Puzzle, Fantasy, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: PC → 11 November 2025

Steam: 93/100

The main character explores the colorful island of Honu, where they solve logical puzzles by transforming the environment using magical technologies. There are...

IKEA VR Experience

Virtual Reality (VR), Exploration, Role-playing game

Game released: PC → 5 April 2016

Steam: 69/100

This VR experience lets players explore an IKEA kitchen and view it from different heights. They can move freely through the 3D space, open drawers, pick up a...

Replace the Lamp: The Last Shift

Adventure, Horror, First-person view, Free game, Walking Simulator, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 14 September 2025

A short first-person horror game with puzzle elements. The main character is an electrician hired for a simple job: changing light bulbs in houses and offices. He...

INFRA

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

Game released: PC → 16 January 2016

Players: 10/10

Steam: 87/100

This first-person puzzle adventure with horror elements follows a structural analyst whose routine damage inspection becomes a fight for survival amid a city’s...

Unrest

Role-playing game, Adventure, Isometric, Fantasy / Medieval, Indie, Exploration, Visual novel, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 23 July 2014

Steam: 65/100

Metacritic: 65/100

This story-driven role-playing adventure is set in a fantasy interpretation of ancient India, where five ordinary people struggle to survive in the famine-stricken...

Treachery in Beatdown City

Arcade, Exploration, Side view

Game released: PC → 30 March 2020

Steam: 76/100

Metacritic: 64/100

Treachery in Beatdown City is a beat ’em up set in an urban dystopia, where fighters take on their foes to save the president. Players choose a fighter and build...

Creature Keeper

Exploration, Crafting, Action

Game released: PC → 8 May 2025

Steam: 67/100

Metacritic: 62/100

This monster-taming adventure follows a Creature Keeper investigating a mysterious sickness affecting healthy creatures and seeking to restore balance to a divided...

ChronoTecture: The Eprologue

Shooter, Adventure, Platformer, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Exploration

Game released: PC → 11 December 2020

Steam: 100/100

ChronoTecture: The Eprologue is an adventure puzzle platformer with a first-person view in a sci-fi setting. The events of the game will tell about an outstanding...

The Nightmare Catcher

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Adventure, Indie, Science fiction, Roguelike, Exploration

Early Access: PC → 25 April 2022

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 66/100

The Nightmare Catcher is a first-person shooter adventure with fantasy action elements. In the year 2050, after World War III, the Earth is losing vital natural...

Jeff Logar

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

Game released: PC → 20 August 2022

Steam: 78/100

Jeff Logar is a third-person action-adventure game with exploration elements. The game tells the story of Jeff Logar and his daughters Tahoma and Sahele. Both girls...

Presence

Action, Adventure, Horror, Indie, Exploration

Game released: PC → 24 March 2021

Steam: 72/100

Presence is an atmospheric action-horror game with a first-person view. The main character is a mother who came to take her son home from boarding school for the...

In The Rural Village of Nagoro

Free game, Adventure, Indie, Side view, Casual game, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 7 November 2022

Steam: 96/100

In The Rural Village of Nagoro is a very short but heartfelt game with a minimal amount of gameplay. The project is intended to tell the story of the fate that...

Summit

Platformer, Side view, Metroidvania, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 28 April 2023

Steam: 81/100

The main character was one of the few survivors of a giant avalanche. He set out on a journey through a giant open world located on a mountain range to find a...

Megis Adventure

Top-down view, Role-playing game, Adventure, Fantasy, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 24 March 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 47/100

Pixel game with an open world. The main character finds himself on a remote, isolated island and begins to explore dungeons to help the locals. There are hundreds...

Gorble

Fantasy, Third-person view, Action, Indie, Dungeons, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 27 July 2024

Steam: 98/100

A short game set in a dungeon. The gamer controls the ball, explores dark corridors and fights enemies. You can charge the impact force by holding down the mouse...

Lunara

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

Game released: PC → 8 November 2024

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 66/100

A pixel game in which the main character explores locations in search of keys. They are needed to open doors and move through levels. From time to time you will...

Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

Exploration, Puzzle, Horror

Game released: PC → 31 August 2015

Steam: 85/100

This horror game combines exploration and puzzles in a surreal underground subway. The protagonist, regarded as a murderer, escapes death row and sets out to find...

Knytt

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

Game released: PC → December 2006

Steam: 100/100

Knytt— A peculiar creature living on a unique planet, Knitt (which roughly translates to "tiny creature" in Swedish) is abducted by an alien in a spaceship...

Nancy Drew: Legend of the Crystal Skull

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 20 November 2009

Players: 9/10

Steam: 91/100

Metacritic: 79/100

This first-person point-and-click adventure follows the search for a crystal skull in New Orleans. Nicknamed the Whisperer, the relic belonged to Bruno Bolet and...

Nancy Drew: Warnings at Waverly Academy

Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Point & Click, Exploration

Game released: PC → 13 January 2010

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

Metacritic: 76/100

A first-person point-and-click mystery adventure in which Nancy Drew goes undercover as a student at a prestigious girls’ boarding school. Threatening notes and...

Rodina

Action, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Space, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 28 July 2014

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 92/100

This space action-adventure focuses on exploration across a seamless, procedurally generated solar system. The player explores planets and asteroids, discovers...

Ultraworld

Adventure, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 5 December 2014

Steam: 75/100

This first-person adventure combines exploration of an abstract world with a science-fiction story and open-ended creative play. The player wanders through its...

Alwa's Legacy

Metroidvania, Exploration, Platformer

Game released: PC → 17 June 2020

Steam: 87/100

Metacritic: 80/100

A non-linear adventure with modern retro styling, Alwa's Legacy centers on exploring dangerous dungeons, magical items and ancient secrets. As the player...

Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss

Adventure, First-person view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 1 August 2024

Steam: 86/100

Metacritic: 77/100

Thalassa: Edge of the Abyss is a first-person psychological drama set beneath the sea. After disaster strikes the protagonist’s former crew and friends, they search...

Truck-kun is Supporting Me From Another World?!

Exploration, Arcade, Anime / Manga

Game released: PC → 29 July 2026

Steam: 84/100

Metacritic: 70/100

This fantasy game follows Carissa Ward, whose consciousness is transported to a world of magic after a truck hits her. Instead of taking the familiar path of a...

Lorera

Free game, Indie, Action, Adventure, Metroidvania, Side view, Puzzle, Platformer, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 15 July 2020

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Lorera is a free-to-play side-scrolling action adventure game with pixel art, set in the mysterious world of Lorera. Puzzles, traps and boss fights await...

IndependANT

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

Game released: PC → 26 April 2023

Steam: 81/100

The ant farm fell from the living room table onto the floor and broke. To make matters worse, the queen disappeared in the chaos. Now homeless ants are on the verge...

Guano

Adventure, Simulation, Arcade, Third-person view, Comedy, Exploration

Game released: PC → 2 March 2024

Steam: 77/100

The player controls a funny and stupid seagull who confronts the polluting mega-corporation of the archipelago. The goal is to wreak havoc on Food Inc. properties...

For What Will Come

Walking Simulator, Adventure, Indie, Free game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 29 October 2022

Steam: 71/100

A short game about a girl named Abby, who left the family and followed her places. Five years later, she returns home, where she digs in her childhood and survives...

9.03m

Adventure, Point & Click, Indie, Walking Simulator, Exploration

Game released: PC → 24 September 2013

Steam: 83/100

An adventure game about exploring San Francisco’s Baker Beach, where debris washed ashore years after a tsunami. It draws attention to the individuals behind the...

The Tartarus Key

Adventure, Exploration, Horror

Game released: PC → 31 May 2023

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 64/100

This adventure thriller with horror elements follows Alex Young, who wakes up in a strange mansion and tries to escape alongside other captives. The doors are...

Exorcists

First-person view, Exploration, Hidden Objects, Stealth, Horror, Adventure, Action

Game released: PC → 12 May 2022

Exorcists is a first-person action adventure game with exploration elements. David Livingstone, who has been practicing exorcism and magic for many years, is now...

Glum Buster

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Fantasy / Medieval, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 26 April 2009

Steam: 100/100

This adventure platformer follows a protagonist trapped in a mysterious alternate reality, where the goal is to cleanse the world of gloom and find a way back to...

Fujii - A Magical Gardening Adventure

Virtual Reality (VR), Casual game, Exploration

Game released: PC → 27 June 2019

Steam: 92/100

This meditative VR adventure follows an exploration of fantastical natural landscapes and the restoration of their plant and animal life. The player travels through...

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre for PC