The Open World Zone

Games with large spaces you can explore and tackle in flexible order.

Latest Standouts

Recent releases that landed well, newest first, filtered to games with enough reviews to trust the score.

Permafrost - Permafrost is a story-driven survival sandbox set in a frozen, post-apocalyptic world. Discover a vast lore-rich open world, alone or in co-op with up to 4 players. Explore, scavenge, craft, and build a network of shelters to outlast the cold.
Denizen - Players say: Build a life in Cedar Shores by working jobs, meeting locals, managing daily needs, and growing into homes and businesses. Players like: Open-Ended Routine · Varied Ways to Earn · Business Ownership ·
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Make a living for yourself in a city full of opportunity while you meet a variety of locals, explore unique locations, and work your way to the top in this open-world life simulator.

Used Cars Simulator - Players say: Buy, inspect, repair, customize, and resell used cars—or steal them—as you build a business across an open-world city. Players like: Satisfying Car Flipping · Open-World Freedom · Criminal Car Theft ·
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Used Cars Simulator - trade used or stolen cars, fix and customize them, drive around, and explore the open world! Grow your business, complete quests, and have fun with a physics-based sandbox!

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Oct 9, 2026
79% 👍
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Silver Pines - Silver Pines is a survival horror metroidvania set in small town America. Fight nightmarish terrors and solve puzzles, while carefully managing your scarce resources as you uncover the mysteries that could hold the key to redemption.
Order of the Sinking Star - Players say: Explore four linked worlds as distinct heroes, solving grid-based puzzles whose rules and abilities increasingly combine. Players like: Inventive Puzzle Design · Layered Mechanics · Puzzle Variety ·
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From director Jonathan Blow (Braid, The Witness), Order of the Sinking Star is a massive puzzle adventure set in a realm of magic and enigma. Solve over 1000 interconnected, hand-crafted puzzles, discover unique playable heroes, master evolving gameplay mechanics, and decipher a grand mystery.

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Oct 8, 2026
97% 👍
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Superhero Simulator - Players say: Patrol a city as a flying superhero, stopping crimes and rescuing civilians while working jobs to cover rent and daily needs. Players like: Enjoyable Flying · Hero-Life Premise · Character Customization ·
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Superhero Simulator is an open-world superhero game where you fight villains and save lives! But being a hero isn’t free! You’ll need to work, pay rent, and survive. Can you handle both sides of the superhero life?

Gears of War: E-Day - Players say: Join Marcus and Dom as the Locust erupt on Emergence Day, fighting through a cover-shooter campaign and team modes. Players like: Cover-Based Combat · Visuals and Atmosphere · Movement and Controls ·
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Experience Emergence Day – the brutal origin story of one of gaming’s most acclaimed third-person shooter franchises.

Piworld - Piworld is a unique multiplayer game where everyone can find something to do to suit their desires. Try out different roles: from a simple fisherman to an adventurer. Explore the world alone or with friends, fight evil, develop your skills, and create your own story.
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Oct 4, 2026
78% 👍
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RADIOSOL - RADIOSOL is a journey through a desolate world burned by a planetary cataclysm. In search of answers, you will have to navigate through the ruins of megastructures and abandoned cities, avoiding the scorching rays of the Sun.
Nivalis Nights - Players say: Run a ramen shop in cyberpunk Nivalis, expand into new businesses, build relationships, and explore the city by boat. Players like: Cyberpunk Atmosphere · Distinctive Visual Style · Business and Activities ·
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Grow your business, manage restaurants and nightclubs, make friends and enemies, buy and decorate apartments, go fishing and maybe even find love in a cyberpunk city that stretches from the ocean to the clouds.

Gamer Stop Simulator - Gamer Stop Simulator is a simulation game where you manage a video game store. Buy games and consoles from customers, repair broken devices, test games, and add rare items to your collection. Negotiate prices, expand your store, and grow your business in this exciting retail experience!
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Sep 29, 2026
72% 👍
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Glider Sim Deluxe – Soaring Simulator - Soar through 3 custom maps or explore the entire globe with Google Earth integration. Pilot hang gliders, paragliders, paramotors, mini-wings, speed-wings, ultralight trikes, or racing drones. Customize weather conditions and fly solo or with friends. Perfect for seasoned pilots and newcomers alike!
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Sep 28, 2026
92% 👍
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Discounted 25% or more right now, limited to well-reviewed games, steepest cuts first.

Outward Definitive Edition - Players say: Play an ordinary adventurer in Aurai, planning survival-focused expeditions, fighting creatures, and exploring alone or in co-op. Players like: Immersive Exploration · Co-op Adventures · Preparation Pays Off ·
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No remarkable journey is achieved without great effort. In Outward, the cold of the night or an infected wound can be as dangerous as a predator lurking in the dark. Explore the vast world of Aurai solo or in Co-op. The Definitive Edition features both DLCs and quality of life improvements.

We Are The Dwarves - Players say: Lead three dwarf astronauts through hostile stone-space, pausing real-time combat to plan commands and combine their distinct abilities. Players like: Distinctive Space-Dwarf Setting · Tactical Pause Planning · Atmospheric Visuals ·
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We Are The Dwarves is a real-time tactical adventure where you take control of three Dwarven astronauts and lead them through the hordes of enemies in the depths of their Universe. Tactical Adventure Sci-Fi Space Dwarves

Totally Reliable Delivery Service - Players say: Play a floppy courier delivering packages across a physics-driven world, using vehicles and gadgets alone or with friends. Players like: Funny Friend Sessions · Free-Play Antics · Vehicle Shenanigans ·
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Delivery Attempted. That's the Totally Reliable Delivery Service guarantee! T.R.D.S. is a ragdoll physics simulation about terrible package delivery couriers. Work together using odd machinery, useful gadgets, and the wonders of physics to reliably deliver packages to their destination.

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Apr 1, 2021
76% 👍
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Saints Row®: The Third™ Remastered - Players say: Lead the Saints against the Syndicate in Steelport, seizing rackets through open-world gunfights, wild missions, and co-op. Players like: Absurd Humor · Chaotic Action · Memorable Missions ·
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The Full Package, Remastered – With enhanced graphics, improved lighting, reworked environments, and visual effects, Steelport and The Third Street Saints have never looked so good.

Stranded Sails - Explorers of the Cursed Islands - Players say: Shipwrecked on a cursed archipelago, rebuild camp, farm and cook, sail between islands, and help your crew uncover its secrets. Players like: Relaxing Island Exploration · Farming And Cooking · Colorful Visuals ·
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Farm, cook, craft and decorate in this casual open world farming adventure! Set up camp with your crew after being shipwrecked on a mysterious archipelago. Your quest is to survive, explore and uncover the secrets of the Cursed Islands. Take care of your crew to build relationships and earn rewards!

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Oct 17, 2019
74% 👍
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Green Hell - Players say: Stranded in the Amazon, anthropologist Jake Higgins must craft, hunt, treat injuries, and survive while searching for his wife. Players like: Layered Survival Systems · Jungle Atmosphere · Learning By Experiment ·
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Plunge into the open-world survival simulation set in the extreme conditions of the uncharted Amazon jungle. Use real-life survival techniques to craft, hunt, fight, and gather resources, set a makeshift shelter, or raise a fortress. Survive alone or team up with your friends and challenge the jungle together.

TT Isle of Man: Ride on the Edge - Players say: Race powerful motorcycles across the 37.73-mile Isle of Man TT course, learning its bends and managing high-speed handling. Players like: Intense Sense of Speed · Challenging Mountain Course · Motorcycle Engine Sounds ·
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For bikers, there are two types of speed races: the Isle of Man TT and the rest. No race is more difficult. Take up the challenge of the legendary Snaefell Mountain course: all 37.73 miles faithfully reproduced with the champions and their bikes.

Everything - Players say: Shift from animals and objects to atoms and galaxies in an open-ended sandbox of exploration, transformation, and philosophical audio. Players like: Scale-Shifting Exploration · Alan Watts Recordings · Relaxing Atmosphere ·
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Be the Universe in this epic, award-winning reality simulation game - featuring thousands of playable characters, endless exploration, an extraordinary soundtrack and narration from Alan Watts.

Feel The Snow - Players say: As a snow creature, explore a winter world, rescue your village, craft gear, build shelter, and battle dark creatures solo or in co-op. Players like: Cozy winter atmosphere · Cute pixel art · Co-op with friends ·
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Choose one of the characters and start your journey. The game has many interesting things in store: building, crafting, puzzles, bosses, mystery, laughs, quests etc.

.hack//G.U. Last Recode - Players say: As Haseo hunts Tri-Edge inside a fictional MMO, explore keyword-unlocked dungeons, fight in real time, and follow a four-volume story. Players like: Story and Characters · Fake MMO World · Atmospheric Soundtrack ·
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.hack//G.U. is back! This collection includes all 3 original .hack//G.U. titles, Rebirth, Reminisce, and Redemption, all fully restored and remastered. As well as an all new 4th Volume: .hack//G.U. Reconnection.

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Nov 3, 2017
87% 👍
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Unbox: Newbie's Adventure - Players say: Play a self-delivering cardboard box, platform through varied worlds, collect stamps, battle rival boxes, and race or fight locally. Players like: Enjoyable Traversal · Novel Box Premise · Charming Tone ·
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Unbox: Newbie's Adventure is a 90s style 3D platformer about the ultimate postal service, self-delivering cardboard boxes! Unbox: Newbie's Adventure has giant worlds full of challenges, collectibles and boxy boss battles!

Kingdom: New Lands - Players say: As a monarch on horseback, spend coins to grow a kingdom by day, defend it from nightly raids, and sail to new islands. Players like: Pixel Art and Music · Resource Strategy · Island Exploration ·
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Kingdom: New Lands builds upon the award-winning gameplay and mystery of Kingdom by introducing an abundance of new content to the IGF-nominated title while maintaining the simplicity and depth that legions of monarchs have come to experience and enjoy.

Hidden Gems

Well-liked but under-played: strong scores, small review counts.

Gentoo Rescue - A puzzler about sliding penguins and walruses. Pick up items to push, pull, bounce, swap, stop, steal, or explode. Uncover surprising twists hidden in a world of puzzles inside puzzles inside puzzles.
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May 22, 2025
100% 👍
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Frog's Adventure - You're a frog who just got given a brain! 🐸 Point-and-click your way through a hand-drawn world and solve puzzles, collect items and talk to other hexed animals. . . Can you lift the curse?
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Aug 2, 2023
100% 👍
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THE CANON OF BALLS - Hardcore, co-op (or solo) platformer. Dark Souls makes a baby with Super Monkey Ball. An easy-to-learn, hard-to-master experience to explore with your friends. All inside a vast open world, with each platforming course bringing its own twist.
Draw Steel - Draw Steel brings the tabletop RPG hit to steam with a fantasy RPG that’s both fun to play and fun to direct! A game about heroes who stop the villains, save villagers, and rescue beautiful dragons from dark dungeons. Suitable for both new and seasoned TTRPG players.
Little Big Adventure 2 - Players say: As Twinsen, investigate an alien arrival on Twinsun by exploring islands, solving puzzles, developing magic, and fighting with unusual gear. Players like: Childhood Nostalgia · Memorable Music · Story and Characters ·
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Twinsen's Little Big Adventure 2 Classic is a retro action-adventure game originally released in 1997. After saving the world from the evilish Doctor Funfrock, Twinsen is now ready to face a new threat coming from outer space.

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Oct 20, 2015
98% 👍
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Mr. Sleepy Man - Players say: Play a sleep-deprived troublemaker in Bedtime Town, leaping through an interconnected world, stirring up locals, and uncovering secrets. Players like: Memorable Soundtrack · Quirky Character Humor · Exploration and Secrets ·
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Mr. Sleepy Man is up way past his bedtime and out of control! Make a mess of everything you find and turn Bedtime Town against you! This sandbox adventure is filled with comical hijinks, outrageous characters, and platforming action!

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Mar 10, 2026
98% 👍
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Survive or Thrive - Crikey, mate! You shouldn't be out here all on your own! There's big MONSTAS' runnin' about! And besides... It's not always the beasts that you gotta watch out for. Beasts are easy to predict! They just wanna kill and eat ya! Humans are much harder... They'll pretend to be your friend first!
Escape From Lavender Island - Explore a dream that refuses to end. As Zede Aksis, wander a surreal city that feels both alive and liminal, filled with digital citizens and absurd infrastructure. Can you find an escape? A way out of a world that remembers you better than you remember it?
The Testing Chamber - Players say: Explore a psychological testing chamber, answer personal and moral questions, solve puzzles, and uncover secrets as your choices lead toward an ending. Players like: Reflective Questions · Room Exploration · Hidden Secrets ·
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For every action, there is a reaction... For every choice, a result... Dive deep into your subconscious as you wander the halls of The Testing Chamber & join hundreds of thousands of other players in one of the biggest & most successful social experiments ever performed.

Time Flies - Time Flies is a little adventure about our limited time in this world.
Terminal 81 - Thanks to the financial crisis of 2008, Lorena migrated to Terminal 81 to work, but what seemed like a simple Latin American neighborhood, it was a dangerous region dominated by a mysterious criminal organization that carries out murders, kidnappings and human trafficking.

Top Rated

Defining examples of the genre, all rated 85%+ across 1,000+ reviews.

A Short Hike - Players say: Guide Claire, a bird visiting Hawk Peak Provincial Park, as she explores, gathers golden feathers, and climbs toward the summit. Players like: Relaxing Atmosphere · Rewarding Exploration · Satisfying Gliding ·
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Hike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as you make your way to the summit.

Smushi Come Home - Players say: Guide a lost little mushroom through a forest, helping its inhabitants and using new abilities to find the way home. Players like: Relaxed Forest Exploration · Charming Characters · Gentle Platforming Puzzles ·
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Play as a tiny lil' mushroom who's lost in the forest and can't find its way home. Explore unique areas freely at your own pace, chat with friendly inhabitants, and take on different adventures to get back home!

Schedule I - Players say: Start broke in Hyland Point, make and mix drugs, deliver orders, and grow a criminal operation with staff and automation. Players like: Growing Your Empire · Playing With Friends · Recipe Experimentation ·
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From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.

Factorio - Players say: Stranded on an alien world, mine resources, research technology, automate a sprawling factory, and defend it from hostile creatures. Players like: Factory Optimization · Satisfying Automation · Problem-Solving Depth ·
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Factorio is a game about building and creating automated factories to produce items of increasing complexity, within an infinite 2D world. Use your imagination to design your factory, combine simple elements into ingenious structures, and finally protect it from the creatures who don't really like you.

Mount & Blade: Warband - Players say: Build a warband in Calradia, fight on foot or horseback, and climb from roaming fighter to ruler through battles and politics. Players like: Open-Ended Freedom · Army Command · Mounted Combat ·
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In a land torn asunder by incessant warfare, it is time to assemble your own band of hardened warriors and enter the fray. Lead your men into battle, expand your realm, and claim the ultimate prize: the throne of Calradia!

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Mar 31, 2010
98% 👍
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Slime Rancher - Players say: As rancher Beatrix, explore an alien world, vacuum up and breed slimes, then sell their plorts to grow your ranch. Players like: Cute Slime Designs · Relaxing Atmosphere · Slime Breeding ·
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Slime Rancher is the tale of Beatrix LeBeau, a plucky, young rancher who sets out for a life a thousand light years away from Earth on the ‘Far, Far Range’ where she tries her hand at making a living wrangling slimes.

Goat Simulator 3 - Players say: Roam San Angora as Pilgor, a physics-bending goat, causing havoc, tackling odd quests, collecting gear, or playing with friends. Players like: Absurd Physics Humor · Co-op Laughs · Open-World Exploration ·
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Pilgor's baaack! Gather your herd and venture forth into Goat Simulator 3; an all-new (at least on Steam), totally realistic, sandbox farmyard experience. Invite up to three friends in local or online co-op, create carnage as a team, or compete in mini-games and then not be friends anymore.

WolfQuest: Anniversary Edition - Players say: As a lone Yellowstone wolf, hunt, find a mate, defend territory, and raise pups through a life that can span generations. Players like: Realistic Wolf Life · Generational Pack Raising · Yellowstone World ·
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Live the life of a wild wolf in a realistic ecological simulation set in Yellowstone National Park.

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Jul 22, 2025
98% 👍
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West of Loathing - Players say: Choose a cowboy archetype, roam a comic stick-figure West, solve oddball quests, and talk or fight through turn-based trouble. Players like: Absurd Humor · Witty Writing · Rewarding Exploration ·
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West of Loathing — a slapstick comedy stick-figure wild west adventure role-playing game.

BABBDI - Players say: Explore a strange concrete city, meet its residents, and use unusual tools to reach new places as you search for a way out. Players like: Eerie City Atmosphere · Freedom To Explore · Unusual Movement Tools ·
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Find your way out of BABBDI. A short, first person exploration experience.

Alba: A Wildlife Adventure - Players say: On her grandparents’ Mediterranean island, Alba photographs wildlife, cleans up habitats, and rallies locals to protect a nature reserve. Players like: Wildlife Photography · Relaxed Island Exploration · Nature Conservation Theme ·
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Even the smallest person can make a big difference. Join Alba, as she sets out to save her beautiful island and its wildlife. And possibly start a revolution.

Loddlenaut - Players say: As an interstellar custodian, clean a polluted alien ocean, recycle debris into gear, and raise creatures shaped by their diet. Players like: Satisfying Ocean Cleanup · Relaxing, Low-Pressure Pace · Cute Loddle Creatures ·
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Play as an interstellar custodian sent to clean up a polluted ocean planet. Pick up trash, explore the vibrant waters, and take care of axolotl-like alien creatures!

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Nov 16, 2023
98% 👍
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