Best Exploration Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated exploration games. For those who prefer not to search, check out lists of the most played, top deals and best free to play Exploration games on Steam.

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Midnight Heist Go on heists through Midnight City alone or with up to four players to fulfill tasks as a hacker for various organizations. Improve your reputation, earn money, and uncover the secrets of shady companies all while being hunted by terrifying entities.

Price -20% 7.80€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Oct 2025
VEIN VEIN is a post-apocalyptic survival multiplayer sandbox game. Gather supplies to survive, explore abandoned buildings, defend your home, and rebuild society, whether alone or with friends.

Price -10% 15.29€
Rating 8.5
Release 24 Oct 2025
Species: Unknown Species: Unknown is a 1 to 4 players co-op survival horror. Complete high-risk missions aboard an abandoned ship while being hunted by an unknown creature. Survive and upgrade your gear to face each new threat that lurks in the dark.

Price -10% 8.77€
Rating 8.8
Release 23 Oct 2025
Dark Hours Dark Hours is a co-op survival horror game for up to 4 players. Your heist has been disrupted by a supernatural event, and your team of robbers is now trapped with an evil entity. Forget your plan, your mission is to survive. Explore and cooperate to find a way out or hide and wish for daylight.

Price -20% 11.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 23 Oct 2025
MISERY MISERY is a 1–5 player co-op survival game set in a nuclear disaster zone. Here, every day is a struggle: search radioactive ruins for resources, build your bunker, craft weapons, and explore a weird, procedurally-generated world with your friends. Beware of anomalies, monsters, and armed bandits.

Price -33% 6.56€
Rating 8.2
Release 23 Oct 2025
Escape the Backrooms Escape the Backrooms is a 1-4 player co-op horror exploration game. Traverse 30+ eerie backrooms levels while avoiding entities and other dangers. Try to escape but be warned: survival isn't guaranteed.

Price -43% 4.72€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Oct 2025
Tormented Souls 2 Caroline Walker returns in the sequel to the award-winning survival horror classic. Explore the decaying remains of the secluded Villa Hess, use improvised weapons to confront terrifying creatures, and bend the fabric of reality to save your sister from a twisted cult.

Price -49% 15.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 23 Oct 2025
RV There Yet? A co-op adventure about driving your Recreational Vehicle home.

Price -10% 7.01€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Oct 2025
World of Sea Battle Set sail in World of Sea Battle, an action-packed open-world MMO in the Golden Age of Sail! Command historic ships, battle in PvP & PvE, shape the economy, and engage in territorial guild wars in your quest for glory across the high seas!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 21 Oct 2025
Lessaria: Fantasy Kingdom Sim Lessaria is an RTS inspired by Majesty 👑 where you guide heroes with indirect control. Play through the campaign or relax in sandbox mode as you build your magical kingdom.

Price -20% 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 20 Oct 2025
Keeper From Lee Petty and Double Fine Productions, Keeper is an atmospheric puzzle adventure in which a long-forgotten lighthouse is awakened and, joined by a spirited seabird, it embarks upon a heartening tale of unlikely companionship, and an unexpected journey into realms beyond understanding

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 17 Oct 2025
Escape From Duckov Escape from Duckov is a PVE indie survival RPG — in a duck's world!. Scavenge for resources, build your hideout, and upgrade your gear in the world of Duckov. Start from nothing and rise to the top. Outwit hostile ducks, survive, or make it out alive.

Price -12% 15.83€
Rating 9.4
Release 16 Oct 2025
Pax Dei Welcome to a vast, social sandbox MMO inspired by the legends of the medieval era. Here, myths are real, ghosts exist, and magic is unquestioned. Join thousands of players as you explore the land, build your home, forge your reputation, and craft your own stories. What world will you make?

Price -70% 9.26€
Rating 6.5
Release 16 Oct 2025
Necesse Build, quest, and conquer across an infinite procedurally generated world. Play alone or with friends as you establish a settlement and explore deep dungeons, fight monsters and bosses, mine rare ores, craft magical equipment, recruit specialists for your colony, and more!

Price -63% 5.63€
Rating 9.1
Release 16 Oct 2025
Yooka-Replaylee Embark on an epic 3D platforming collectathon adventure with Yooka and Laylee! Yooka-Replaylee is packed with new moves, more story, exciting challenges, hidden secrets, and more than double the collectibles to uncover. Can you help them rescue the world’s biggest treasure?

Price -7% 27.22€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Oct 2025
Seafarer: The Ship Sim Embark on the ultimate maritime experience with Seafarer: The Ship Sim. Choose between careers, take the helm of a variety of ships, and expand your fleet. Navigate a vast open world and become immersed in the beautiful expanses and rolling waves.

Price -34% 16.52€
Rating 6.8
Release 07 Oct 2025
Little Rocket Lab Transform your childhood home as you build brilliant factories and forge lifelong friendships, then reach for the skies and finally finish your family's dream - your mother's precious rocket ship. Roll up your sleeves, it turns out that saving this town really IS rocket science!

Price 17.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 07 Oct 2025
CARIMARA: Beneath the forlorn limbs A mute little thing with borrowed magic. A house that murmurs back. Ask wrong, and you might wake something that remembers your name.

Price 4.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 06 Oct 2025
Train Sim World® 6 Embark on your next journey and discover the joy of train simulation. Be ready for anything as you master formidable trains across 3 new routes. Unlock new skills and expand your hobby - Expect the Unexpected in Train Sim World 6!

Price 39.99€
Rating 6.2
Release 30 Sep 2025
Atelier Resleriana: The Red Alchemist & the White Guardian The story of two protagonists as they rebuild their hometown and seek the hidden truth. Engage in timeline-based command battles and enjoy the easy-to-learn yet deeply engaging synthesis. Plus, take on shop management, explore random dungeons, and more!

Price 59.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 25 Sep 2025
Mars First Logistics Build physically simulated rovers to transport awkwardly shaped cargo across the rugged terrain of Mars. Earn funds, unlock new parts, and use your ingenuity to help the Martians establish a new home. Playable solo or in online co-op!

Price 18.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 25 Sep 2025
Aethermancer Monster Taming meets Roguelite. Become the Aethermancer and fight alongside mythical creatures. Explore the ever-changing Fractured Ruins, plan your moves in challenging turn-based battles, and watch your Monsters grow stronger from previous lives and defy death!

Price 21.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Sep 2025
Baby Steps Play as Nate, an unemployed failson with nothing going for him, until one day he discovers a power he never knew he had… putting one foot in front of the other.

Price -29% 14.29€
Rating 8.6
Release 23 Sep 2025
It Has My Face IT HAS YOUR FACE. Now it wants your life. Hide, seek, and try to kill your clone in this deceptively simple first-person horror roguelite.

Price 9.49€
Rating 8.5
Release 23 Sep 2025