Best Exploration Games 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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Haven Moon Haven Moon will transport you to a mysterious world where you have to explore abandoned islands and solve their secrets to find a treasure. In this Myst-like game inspired by Jules Verne’s universe, use your senses and intelligence to find your way through secret passages and curious machinery.

Price 11.79€
Rating 7.5
Release 08 Jul 2016
Mr. Pumpkin Adventure Mr. Pumpkin's Adventure is a point-and-click puzzle game. The main character of this game is Mr. Pumpkin who lost his memories. During the adventure, you will help him solve all the puzzles, which will eventually unveil an evil plot.

Price 3.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 08 Jul 2016
Zezenia Online Zezenia is a free to play 2D MMORPG with intense PvP wars & PvE combat. Choose from three classes and seven subclasses to discover a large map with four continents, hundreds of quests, a random equipment system & more.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 07 Jul 2016
Storm Of Spears RPG Prepare for an epic 10 hour adventure in the world of Galager. Sura, the world's most sought-after mercenary, leads a band of sell-swords in a last-ditch effort to save the world. Prepare for the Storm of Spears!

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 17 Jun 2016
Awareness Rooms You find yourself in a room you know nothing of. As you examine the objects around you, your awareness rises and the room slowly comes into focus. Can you find your way out?

Price 4.99€
Rating 7.7
Release 16 Jun 2016
The Solus Project The Solus Project is a single player exploration adventure with survival elements. The adventure is set on a mysterious planet and is the spiritual successor to The Ball - 2010 PC Gamer Action/Adventure Game Of The Year...

Price -32% 12.98€
Rating 7.7
Release 07 Jun 2016
Anima: Gate of Memories A third-person action RPG that brings to life the world of Gaia from the Anima: Beyond Fantasy RPG table-top books. Explore a deep and multifaceted story where your choices and actions directly impact the journey and decide the fate of the characters.

Price -51% 9.88€
Rating 6.5
Release 02 Jun 2016
The NADI Project The NADI Project it is a free-to-play, first person graphic adventure, in which you will face various obstacles to escape from your destiny.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 01 Jun 2016
TurnOn "TurnOn" tells the spellbinding tale of a brave alien creature and its striking journey through blackout world, in an incredibly colorful and detailed platformer without platforms.

Price -97% 0.51€
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Jun 2016
Demetrios - The BIG Cynical Adventure A comedic point-and-click adventure where a hungover antique dealer must solve his own robbery in Paris, dragging himself and his friends into a wildly idiotic journey!

Price -81% 0.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 31 May 2016
35MM Post-apocalyptic story about two travelers who set out on a long journey in the wasteland, left by people after the global epidemic.

Price -49% 4.52€
Rating 7.0
Release 27 May 2016
Duskers Pilot drones into derelict spaceships to find the means to survive and piece together how the universe became a giant graveyard.

Price -96% 0.80€
Rating 8.7
Release 18 May 2016
Sins Of The Demon RPG Follow the journey of Kenshi, a wandering demon hunter, and his brother, a demon cat seeking a way to return to his true form. Can they find a way to end the curse and save Lanistra?

Price 1.99€
Rating 7.9
Release 13 May 2016
Dungeon of Zolthan Dungeon of Zolthan is a casual, arcade-style metroidvania platformer where your goal is to defeat Zolthan; a powerful mage that lives inside the dungeon. Using an array of powerups and your own wit and guile, guide your character through Zolthan's Dungeon!

Price -50% 0.99€
Rating 7.3
Release 11 May 2016
Stellaris Explore a galaxy full of wonders in this sci-fi grand strategy game from Paradox Development Studios. Interact with diverse alien races, discover strange new worlds with unexpected events and expand the reach of your empire. Each new adventure holds almost limitless possibilities.

Price -84% 8.17€
Rating 8.5
Release 09 May 2016
Scrap Garden Scrap Garden is a charming puzzle platformer about the adventures of Canny, a lonely robot, who awakens in a post-apocalyptic world to find all other robots shut down and seized up. What happened to the City? Why did all robots stop moving? Did anyone survive except him?

Price -93% 0.63€
Rating 7.3
Release 06 May 2016
Kathy Rain Set in the '90s, Kathy Rain tells the story of a strong-willed journalism major who has to come to terms with her troubled past as she investigates the mysterious death of her recently deceased grandfather.

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 8.9
Release 05 May 2016
Share In the backyard of the civilization, left by destiny without any hope, you'll find this house on the hill. It will become your shelter and give you everything you need. But then, the owners of the hill will come. And you will pay for this shelter.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.8
Release 03 May 2016
Gun Rocket Prepare for a challenge. Gun Rocket is a 2D physics arcade game that is not for the feint of heart or the stiff of fingers. In search of adventure, you have been caught by holes in space and time. Can you escape?

Price -75% 0.51€
Rating 6.9
Release 02 May 2016
Bigscreen Beta Bigscreen lets you use your PC desktop in VR. Watch movies with friends in a virtual movie theater. Play your favorite PC video games on a huge screen. Hangout in social VR chat rooms. Participate in weekly 3D Movie Nights, VR LAN parties, live rocket launch events, and more!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Apr 2016
Left Alone Left Alone plunges you into a first-person psychological horror journey, where darkness and memories intertwine. As secrets emerge from shadows, use your wits to solve puzzles and explore haunting, forgotten locations. Every step echoes with the past; can you face the truths that await?

Price 6.89€
Rating 7.1
Release 28 Apr 2016
Offworld Trading Company Mars has been colonized, and Earth's corporate titans fight to dominate this new market. Competition is fierce in this fast-paced economic RTS from Civilization IV Lead Designer, Soren Johnson.

Price -98% 0.77€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Apr 2016
OPUS: The Day We Found Earth Dive into the boundless galaxy and embark on an emotional adventure! Help little robot Emeth to fulfill a century-old promise by finding Earth in order to save Mankind—so step into the spaceship, operate a deep space telescope, and find out what’s out there in the unknown.

Price -51% 7.39€
Rating 8.3
Release 22 Apr 2016
Bottle (2016) Bottle is a short game which you play as a man of solitude. It is about the mood of melancholy in the winter nature.

Price 0.99€
Rating 6.1
Release 21 Apr 2016
Deer Man Deer Man is a short Interactive Storytelling experience. You play as Jacob's memory, where you will have an incredible encounter with Deer Man & the dark side of his love for the wildlife. If you love animals, this is for you!

Price 0.79€
Rating 6.8
Release 15 Apr 2016
Spaceport Hope A huge hand-crafted world packed with 13 unique bosses, a gripping story, and tons of enemies, Spaceport Hope is the ultimate test of gaming prowess.

Price 2.09€
Rating 7.3
Release 15 Apr 2016
Everybody's Gone to the Rapture Featuring a beautiful, detailed open-world and a haunting soundtrack, Everybody’s Gone to the Rapture is non-linear storytelling at its best.

Price -96% 0.86€
Rating 6.7
Release 14 Apr 2016
FINAL FANTASY IX Selling over five million copies since its release in 2000, FINAL FANTASY IX proudly returns on Steam! Now you can relive the adventures of Zidane and his crew on PC !

Price -79% 4.57€
Rating 9.2
Release 14 Apr 2016
DARK SOULS III Dark Souls continues to push the boundaries with the latest, ambitious chapter in the critically-acclaimed and genre-defining series. Prepare yourself and Embrace The Darkness!

Price -63% 22.77€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Apr 2016
Ace of Seafood In the seas of the distant future, humans have all but disappeared. In your current, newly-awakened state, you are no more than a piece of seafood. However, you have been blessed with the talent for leading your allies into battle. Do whatever it takes to become the Ace of Seafood.

Price -83% 2.04€
Rating 8.4
Release 08 Apr 2016
Windlands A first person grappling hook exploration game.Soar through the ruins of a fallen world and discover the secrets of the ancients. Designed with full Virtual Reality support for the HTC Vive and Oculus Rift, also works great in Non VR.

Price -36% 8.21€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
IKEA VR Experience Explore and interact with an IKEA Kitchen in Virtual Reality! Walk around freely, open drawers and put your vegetable peelings in the waste sorting station. You can even enjoy the visual impact of different material finishes and experience things from a child’s point of view.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Apr 2016
1979 Revolution: Black Friday 1979 Revolution: Black Friday is a choice driven, narrative game that brings players into the brooding world of a nation on the verge of collapse. Play as Reza, an aspiring photojournalist, and make life and death decisions as you survive the gritty streets of Iran in the late 1970’s.

Price 8.19€
Rating 7.3
Release 04 Apr 2016
Adam's Venture: Origins Embark on a bold adventure in Adam’s Venture: Origins. Set in the roaring 20’s, in Adam’s Venture: Origins you will explore ancient ruins, and recover mysterious artifacts. Together with your trusted accomplice Evelyn, you will have to outsmart the evil Clairvaux company.

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 6.3
Release 01 Apr 2016
Hyper Light Drifter Explore a beautiful, vast and ruined world riddled with dangers and lost technologies.

Price -75% 3.74€
Rating 9.1
Release 31 Mar 2016
A Chair in a Room : Greenwater Explore your surroundings as the protagonist of your own horror story as you immerse yourself in this tense VR thriller set in America’s Deep South. Navigate your way through your memories, piecing together the clues and puzzles, to solve the mystery of how you have awoken in the sinister Greenwater Institute, known only as Patient No.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.8
Release 30 Mar 2016

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