Exploration Hidden Gems on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our game recommendations use a rigorous analysis of Steam user reviews to identify and feature only the best, community-validated exploration games.

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Shattered Lights Shattered Lights is a VR psychological horror room-scale experience, which focuses on drawing the player into the game with unparalleled immersion.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jun 2019
FREEDIVER: Triton Down Plunge into VR on a capsizing research ship, the Triton, where survival means outmaneuvering the water's lethal surge. Freedive through a sinking ship, overcome underwater chaos, and unlock your path to the surface, all while protecting your most precious resource: the breath in your lungs.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 May 2019
Super Cane Magic ZERO - Legend of the Cane Cane Crash-land in the psychedelic world of Super Cane Magic ZERO, a local co-op Action RPG for 1 to 4 players! Immerse yourself in the mind-bending Story Mode or pummel your friends in 8 local Battle Arenas. Smash! Loot! Eat Rocks! Fight a really big fridge!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 30 May 2019
Atelier Lulua ~The Scion of Arland~ The long awaited 4th installment of the popular "Arland" series that had begun with the "Atelier Rorona"! In this new story, players will revisit the nostalgic world of Arland and embark on exciting journey of alchemy together with Rorona's daughter, Lulua.

Price 59.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 20 May 2019
Koral Koral, a love letter to the ocean. Dive into the beautiful underwater world as a sea current. Solve puzzles to bring back to life coral reefs and spread the beauty of the oceans in different sea ecosystems.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 16 May 2019
Never Again Never Again - Horror/first-person Quest. The main essence of the game is research locations and puzzles, plunging in the dramatic story of a little girl suffering from asthma.

Price -94% 0.82€
Rating 7.7
Release 09 May 2019
Adventure Climb VR Adventure Climb VR is a room-scale climbing experience suitable for anyone of any age - particularly great for newcomers to VR. Achieve triumph through a combination of physically demanding climbing techniques and puzzle challenges that are designed by actual rock climbers.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.0
Release 16 Apr 2019
Feather Feather is a multiplayer game about exploration, relaxation and immersion. Transform yourself into a bird, take flight, and enjoy a zen-like, picturesque landscape on your own terms. Swoop, glide, and backflip your way around mysterious locations to uncover hidden paths that only birds can follow!

Price -91% 0.95€
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Apr 2019
Onigiri Onigiri is an MMO Action RPG with a fast weapon changing battle system. Join a party of other players or travel with 8 NPC companions on your journey. With simple controls, you can dive into the thrilling world of Onigiri. Switch between weapons to battle through the Youkai.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.9
Release 28 Mar 2019
The Cursed Forest Immerse yourself in the obscure and mysterious autumnal forest, where every wrong step could be your last. As you travel uncover the dark story behind this place, where beauty and danger have become as one.

Price -89% 1.34€
Rating 8.4
Release 26 Feb 2019
Evospace Contribute to the colonization of the universe. Get and process resources, develop your technologies. Achieve complete automation and build a portal to include another planet in the chain of worlds.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.8
Release 14 Feb 2019
Strange Telephone Strange Telephone is a 2D adventure game in which the player explores strange worlds created with merely 6 digits, and has multiple endings.

Price -91% 0.46€
Rating 7.8
Release 21 Jan 2019
Becalm Fancy a relaxing drift through magical waters? Enjoy this seafaring voyage in search of the sunset!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
Feudal Alloy Feudal Alloy is an epic action adventure with fish-controlled medieval robots! Explore an unusual medieval world with a fish-controlled robot, Attu. Improve your combat techniques and skills by smashing many kinds of mechanical creatures in a beautiful hand-drawn world.

Price -67% 4.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jan 2019
BELOW BELOW is a solitary journey through the haunted depths of a forbidden isle. Explore. Survive. Discover.

Price -70% 6.59€
Rating 6.8
Release 14 Dec 2018
Atelier Totori ~The Adventurer of Arland~ DX The second release in the Arland series. In a search for her missing mother, Totori tours the world of Arland as an adventurer accompanied by her friends. Use Synthesis, Explore, and Battle to fulfil requests, raise her rank as an adventurer and venture into brand new lands.

Price -55% 18.29€
Rating 7.5
Release 03 Dec 2018
Atelier Rorona ~The Alchemist of Arland~ DX First release in the Arland series. The main character Rorona must save her Atelier from being closed by the Kingdom. Using Synthesis, Exploration, and Battle, gain recognition for the Atelier and save it from being closed.

Price -8% 36.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 03 Dec 2018
Protocol By signing below, you agree to follow the Protocol. Protocol is a program of strict rules created to make first contact with an alien life form that got shot down in the Arctic Circle.

Price -40% 5.27€
Rating 6.9
Release 20 Nov 2018
My Big Sister My name is Luzia...and this story isn't about me, it’s about my sister. Do you still wish to hear it?

Price -94% 0.40€
Rating 8.7
Release 09 Nov 2018
True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 True Fear: Forsaken Souls Part 2 is the sequel to one of the best rated horror escape games, acclaimed for its story and the atmosphere of horror mystery.

Price -16% 8.43€
Rating 8.7
Release 02 Nov 2018
Star Shelter Star shelter is a space survival game built from the ground up for VR. You are stranded in space, you must climb around in Zero-G, explore, scavenge, craft, hack and fight to survive. You have to build, arm and upgrade your own space station in order to escape the cosmic graveyard.

Price 16.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 23 Oct 2018
Wenjia Wenjia is a 2D platform game with puzzle-solving elements. Players can freely travel between two realms (the material world and the energy world), each of them with different challenges and obstacles. Players must utilize both realms’ mechanisms to reach their final goal.

Price 7.39€
Rating 7.5
Release 17 Oct 2018
Infliction Wander through an interactive nightmare set within the confines of a once-happy household. Piece together the mystery behind a harrowing series of events while struggling to survive encounters with an entity that relentlessly stands in the way of finding absolution.

Price -51% 8.96€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 Oct 2018
God's Basement God's Basement is a first-person, narrative-driven, single player horror game. Uncover the secrets of an afterlife shrouded in mystery, as an entity known as "The Operator" leads you deeper into the fringes of a seemingly eternal purgatory.

Price 12.49€
Rating 7.1
Release 16 Oct 2018
Myst III: Exile The story of Myst continues in this third entry of the series, originally released in 2001. Return to this strange and wondrous universe, where books become portals into worlds, and where the lessons of the past may yet hold meaning for today...

Price -98% 0.42€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Sep 2018
Evergarden You have just arrived in a magical forest world with a hexagon board at its center, a mysterious creature nearby, and secrets lurking in the shadows. Why are you here, and what will you do next? A deceptively simple puzzle game, wrapped in a magical adventure.

Price -96% 0.44€
Rating 8.1
Release 16 Aug 2018
La-Mulana 2 The long-awaited sequel to La-Mulana, La-Mulana 2 follows Lumisa Kosugi as she explores the ancient ruins of La-Mulana. Desperate to find the cause of the recent slew of monsters appearing from the ruins, Lumisa discovers the "other" La-Mulana: the ruins known as Eg-Lana.

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.1
Release 30 Jul 2018
Mary Skelter: Nightmares The "Jail" suddenly appeared a number of years ago, sinking the city deep into the ground. There, this impenetrable living prison 666 metres beneath the surface, held power over eerie creatures called "Marchens." Within the prison was a boy named Jack - living a life of suffering...

Price 20.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Jul 2018
Youropa A platform puzzle paint adventure about breaking rules, being upside down and thinking outside the box.

Price -98% 0.40€
Rating 8.2
Release 27 Jun 2018
Suzy Cube 3-D platforming perfection full of variety, peril and smiles around every corner!

Price 4.99€
Rating 8.0
Release 19 Jun 2018
Suicide Guy: Sleepin' Deeply In this new chapter of "Suicide Guy" you'll be challenged with even more insane puzzles, generated by the surreal dreams of the Guy. You'll encounter the weirdest of the living beings as you go deeper and deeper into his subconscious. This time to wake him up you'll need all your skills.

Price -88% 0.74€
Rating 7.5
Release 07 Jun 2018
Gray Dawn Embark on a terrifying adventure of a priest accused of murdering an altar boy. Gray Dawn is a psychological thriller infused with religious elements and combines story-driven quests with an artistic experience.

Price -73% 4.60€
Rating 8.0
Release 07 Jun 2018
Hakoniwa Explorer Plus Get ready for a voxel art action game featuring an unprecedented level of freedom! A whole range of cute girl monsters are waiting to punch, kick, wrap you up, suck your blood, and eat you right up.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 06 Jun 2018
Shape of the World A serene first person exploration game in a surreal, organic world that reacts to your presence. Journey through a psychedelically colorful ecosystem of flourishing flora, rambling waterfalls, burgeoning mountains, glowing monoliths and graceful creatures. A 1-3 hour escape from work, anxiety and stress.

Price -97% 0.42€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Jun 2018
Catmaze Catmaze is a fairy metroidvania inspired by Slavic myths. Age-old tales will come to life in the unforgettable adventure of Alesta, a sorceress whose courage guides her through mysterious paths and dark forests in search of the lost road to Nav, the world of the dead.

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.0
Release 24 May 2018
AntVentor AntVentor is a point & click adventure game. You find yourself in a photorealistic macroworld where you immediately manage to ruin the life of the main character, ant, and foil all his plans for making his dream come true. Can you help get everything back in order?

Price -41% 2.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 17 May 2018

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