Exploration 2015 for PC — top best games in the Exploration genre

Fallout 4 - a game in the Exploration genre

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, First-person view, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PC → 9 November 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 86/100

The continuation of the iconic series of role-playing games in a post-apocalyptic world. The game features a completely revamped leveling system, gameplay, and...

Black Desert

Role-playing game, Action, Online, MMO, In real time, Third-person view, Free game, Fantasy, Medieval era, Sandbox, Exploration

Game released: PC → 3 March 2016

VGTimes: 5.7/10

Players: 7.2/10

Steam: 72/100

Metacritic: 73/100

A free multiplayer open-world RPG with a focus on dynamic battles. In it, you will create your own hero using one of the most advanced customization systems...

Fishing Planet

Simulation, Hunting / Fishing, First-person view, Sports game, Free game, Online, Exploration

Game released: PC → 11 August 2015

Players: 7.1/10

Steam: 84/100

Fishing Planet is a free-to-play sport fishing simulator with a first-person view. You can choose your gear and go on an exciting fishing trip. Improve your skills...

Sunless Sea

Role-playing game, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Exploration, Survival

Game released: PC → 6 February 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Sunless Sea is a dark, H.P. Lovecraft-inspired role-playing adventure set in the universe of London Has Fallen. You have to take the helm of a Victorian steamship...

60 Seconds!

Simulation, Strategy, Adventure, Indie, Exploration, Point & Click

Game released: PC → 25 May 2015

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 81/100

60 Seconds! — an arcade survival simulator in times of post-apocalypse. Ted has only 60 seconds to take everything he needs and hide in the bunker before the...

Cat Goes Fishing

Casual game, Indie, Side view, Hunting / Fishing, Exploration

Game released: PC → 19 January 2015

Players: 7.9/10

Steam: 94/100

The main character is a cute cat who is trying to catch himself a fish with the help of a fishing rod. He also has a multifunctional radar in his arsenal to help...

Her Story

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

Game released: PC → 24 June 2015

Players: 9.4/10

Steam: 88/100

Metacritic: 89/100

Her Story is a mystical indie adventure with a first-person view. In this game, you sit in front of a mothballed desktop computer that is registered in a police...

Dreaming Sarah

Metroidvania, Puzzle, Platformer, Adventure, Side view, Mysticism / Supernatural, Exploration, Casual game

Game released: PC → 13 March 2015

Steam: 90/100

The girl Sarah got into an accident and is in a coma. You need to explore the dream world, collect objects and communicate with strange characters to help her wake...

SimplePlanes

Simulation, Racing, Flight Simulator, Indie, Sandbox, Construction, Exploration

Game released: PC → 17 December 2015

Players: 8/10

Steam: 93/100

SimplePlanes is a great combination of simulator and sandbox where you will design your own aircraft and then test them in the sky. Realistic physics and a wide...

Grow Home

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

Game released: PC → 4 February 2015

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 93/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This adventure game follows BUD, a robot exploring a world of floating islands in an effort to save his home planet by collecting seeds from a giant alien plant...

Last Horizon

Arcade, Adventure, Futurism (Future), Indie, Action, Exploration

Game released: PC → 18 November 2015

Players: 8.9/10

Steam: 81/100

Last Horizon is an adventure arcade game in the world of space science fiction. The player will have to go in search of a new home for a dying civilization, where...

Submerged

Adventure, Third-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Exploration, Walking Simulator

Game released: PC → 3 August 2015

Players: 9.7/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 53/100

Submerged is a post-apocalyptic adventure with a third-person view. You will go to explore a mysterious flooded city with a little girl named Miku, who arrived in...

Homesick

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

Game released: PC → 28 May 2015

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 77/100

Metacritic: 72/100

This first-person adventure and puzzle game is set in an abandoned building, where the protagonist tries to escape both in the waking world and in nightmares. As...

the static speaks my name

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

Game released: PC → 10 August 2015

Steam: 81/100

A short psychological adventure from the first person. The game tells the story of a man's last night, obsessed with a painting of two palm trees. He spends time in...

Fall Of The Dungeon Guardians

Role-playing game, First-person view, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: PC → 6 November 2015

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 83/100

Metacritic: 71/100

Fall Of The Dungeon Guardians is a first-person RPG set in a dungeon world. The protagonist is a guard who was hired to guard a prison. During his shift, strange...

In Verbis Virtus

Action, Adventure, First-person view, Puzzle, Indie, Fantasy, Exploration

Game released: PC → 3 April 2015

Players: 8.5/10

Steam: 78/100

This first-person fantasy adventure follows a wizard searching for an ancient power inside a lost temple. As the hero explores its forgotten chambers, they discover...

Waste Walkers

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Horror, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Open world, Survival, Exploration

Game released: PC → 1 June 2015

Players: 6.6/10

Steam: 80/100

Waste Walkers Deliverance is a post-apocalyptic survival RPG created in RPG Maker. The game features leveling, a day/night cycle, randomized weather conditions, a...

Dark Quest

Role-playing game, Top-down view, Turn-based, Indie, Dungeons, Exploration, Fantasy, Strategy

Game released: PC → 21 January 2015

Steam: 76/100

A dark fantasy adventure about a journey into a dungeon, where a powerful sorcerer has settled beneath the village of Darkwood. His minions ravage the surroundings...

Talos Principle: Road to Gehenna

DLC, First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 23 July 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 95/100

Metacritic: 82/100

An expansion for Talos Principle, it follows Uriel, Elohim’s messenger, as he explores a hidden part of the simulation. His mission of mercy and redemption is to...

Dream

First-person view, Futurism (Future), Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 31 July 2015

Steam: 72/100

Dream is a first-person puzzle game with indie game elements from developers from the HyperSloth studio. The game is published by...

Good Snowman Is Hard to Build

Top-down view, Puzzle, Logic, Indie, Open world, Exploration

Game released: PC → 25 February 2015

Steam: 96/100

Metacritic: 93/100

Good Snowman Is Hard to Build is a top-down puzzle game in which you have to build snowmen, so that they really are snowmen, and not some shapeless towers. The...

Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Logic, Indie, Adventure, Exploration

Game released: PC → 6 August 2015

Players: 10/10

Steam: 90/100

This action-puzzle adventure follows a spider exploring an abandoned estate built by a secret society. In Spider: Rite of the Shrouded Moon, the player weaves webs...

Pale Echoes

Role-playing game, Anime / Manga, Indie, Exploration, Puzzle, Turn-based

Game released: PC → 10 December 2015

Steam: 80/100

Pale Echoes is a Japanese-style 2D role-playing game with pixel graphics. Players will have to explore a world in which a great disaster has occurred. Only a man...

Nancy Drew: Sea of Darkness

Adventure, Point & Click, Exploration, Puzzle

Game released: PC → 19 May 2015

Steam: 92/100

This puzzle adventure follows detective Nancy Drew to an Icelandic town, where the captain of the celebrated ship Heerlijkheid has disappeared. Nancy investigates...

Hot Tin Roof

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Platformer, Indie, Metroidvania, Side view, Exploration

Game released: PC → 20 February 2015

Steam: 70/100

This noir mystery combines platforming, exploration and Metroidvania elements as private investigator Emma Jones investigates a series of grisly murders. Her...

Girlfriend Rescue

Role-playing game, Action, Adventure, Beat them all, Anime / Manga, Replayability, Dungeons, Exploration

Game released: PC → 10 July 2015

Steam: 81/100

Set in a modern world, this role-playing adventure blends beat ’em up combat with roguelike RPG elements. The hero has little time to find his kidnapped girlfriend...

Expand

Arcade, Top-down view, Puzzle, Exploration, Adventure, Music game

Game released: PC → 30 September 2015

Steam: 91/100

Expand is a minimalist top-down arcade puzzle game where you need to guide a pink square through a circular maze that constantly rotates, unfolds and expands around...

Transcendence

Simulation, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Futurism (Future), Space, Exploration, Open world

Game released: PC → 24 July 2015

Steam: 88/100

Transcendence is a top-down simulator with action and strategy elements from developers from the studio Kronosaur Productions. The game is published by Kronosaur...

Airscape - The Fall of Gravity

Exploration, Casual game, Platformer

Game released: PC → 11 August 2015

Steam: 75/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This fast-paced action platformer with shifting gravity follows a deep-sea Dumbo octopus kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. The octopus sets out on a skybound...

Close Your Eyes [Old Version]

Exploration, Puzzle, Horror

Game released: PC → 31 August 2015

Exploration

Best Games in the Exploration genre of 2015 for PC (Game released)