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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RPG MO RPG MO is a nostalgic MMORPG that reminds of Ultima and Runescape Classic.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 18 Aug 2015
Silver Creek Falls: Chapter 1 Two city detectives are sent to a small idyllic town in North Carolina called ‘Silver Creek Falls” to investigate a strange series of events that the local sheriff can’t seem to get his mind around. What initially seems like an open-and-shut case unfolds into a truly terrifying mystery that will leave the detectives wondering what is...

Price Free to play
Rating 8.1
Release 12 Aug 2015
Airscape - The Fall of Gravity Airscape is a fast-paced, ultra-challenging 60 level action platformer. You play a deep-sea octopus, kidnapped by a mechanical alien race. Jump, dodge, and swim through a skybound environment full of floating islands, water formations, and robotic terrors.

Price -74% 1.30€
Rating 7.9
Release 11 Aug 2015
the static speaks my name A dark/sad/weird/funny first person exploration game. You play a man on his last night alive as he obsesses over a mysterious painting. More of a story game in that it emphasizes mood and character over gameplay. Takes ten minutes to play and has "next-gen" features like a shrimp tank.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 10 Aug 2015
Fingerbones Explore a mysterious abandoned bunker and find notes that paint a disturbing picture.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 03 Aug 2015
Submerged Submerged is a third-person combat-free game in which you explore a mysterious flooded city and discover the beauty of desolation in vast outdoor environments. You take on the role of Miku, a young girl who has brought her wounded brother to the city in their small fishing boat.

Price -88% 2.45€
Rating 7.4
Release 03 Aug 2015
PixelJunk Nom Nom Galaxy Welcome to SoupCo, Astroworker! In Nom Nom Galaxy, construct and automate gigantic soup factories on unexplored planets throughout the universe, harvest flora and fauna to turn them into artisanal soups, and rocket your product into the gullets of the galaxy!

Price -64% 3.69€
Rating 7.3
Release 03 Aug 2015
Cradle Cradle is a sci-fi first-person-view quest designed for the player to explore the surrounding world. The story is built around the relations of the protagonist and a mechanical girl who by quirk of fate found themselves amidst the desert.

Price 12.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 24 Jul 2015
Way of the Samurai 4 Way of the Samurai 4 takes place in the humble port town of Amihama during the mid 19th Century, several years after the arrival of the “black ships” from the West ended Japan’s long history of cultural isolation.

Price 22.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Jul 2015
Through Abandoned: The Underground City It’s the first game of Through Abandoned series, classical point and click game. You try to find your twin-brother who disappeared in a huge and mysterious place called Abandoned.

Price -94% 0.40€
Rating 7.6
Release 22 Jul 2015
Odallus: The Dark Call The old gods have forgotten this land. No one could save our people when darkness started spreading and collecting human souls for its army. Odallus is a classic exploration/action game, inspired by Ghosts’n Goblins, Demon’s Crest and Castlevania.

Price -80% 2.01€
Rating 8.4
Release 15 Jul 2015
Contradiction: Spot The Liar Spot the lie and beat the liars in 'Contradiction' - the all-video murder mystery adventure!

Price 12.79€
Rating 9.1
Release 10 Jul 2015
The Magic Circle In this darkly comedic story, you are the hero of an unfinished fantasy game, and your designers have failed you. Steal the power of a game god - trap their creations, swap behaviors and body parts, crafting your own unique solutions to free-form puzzles. Can you release a game ...from the inside?

Price -90% 2.06€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Jul 2015
Marble Mayhem: Fragile Ball Devilishly difficult but insanely rewarding physics puzzler. Play through 85 levels of diverse and ingenious physics-based challenges.

Price -70% 0.60€
Rating 6.5
Release 07 Jul 2015
TIMEframe Time is relative. Sometimes 10 seconds can feel like an eternity... In TIMEframe you will discover a world in slow motion. Explore the remnants of a mysterious civilization on the brink of destruction.

Price -92% 0.49€
Rating 6.4
Release 07 Jul 2015
Her Story A woman is interviewed seven times by the police. Search the video database and explore hundreds of authentic clips to discover her story in this groundbreaking and award winning narrative game.

Price -60% 3.98€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Jun 2015
Kholat The most terrifying journey of your life set in the beautiful winter scenery of the Ural Mountains. Uncover the horrific mystery behind the Dyatlov Pass Incident. Narrated by the famous Sean Bean.

Price -94% 1.16€
Rating 6.6
Release 09 Jun 2015
The Silent Age Experience a post-apocalyptic world like never before in The Silent Age, a thrilling point-and-click adventure game. Use time travel to unravel the mystery behind humanity's disappearance and save the world from extinction. Start your journey now!

Price 9.75€
Rating 9.0
Release 29 May 2015
BeamNG.drive A dynamic soft-body physics vehicle simulator capable of doing just about anything.

Price -26% 16.75€
Rating 9.6
Release 29 May 2015
Crash Drive 2 Get ready for ridiculous fun in this multiplayer free-roaming stunting game. Drive a bus, tank or monster truck and speed across huge open worlds. Level up your car, participate in random events and discover secret areas. Buy now and get a free copy to gift to your friend!

Price -89% 0.58€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 May 2015
Homesick Explore an abandoned building, encountering puzzles and clues to discover what happened, as you try to escape in both your nightmares and the waking world. Be immersed in the hauntingly beautiful 3D atmosphere in this puzzle exploration mystery game.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 May 2015
60 Seconds! 60 Seconds! is a dark comedy atomic adventure of scavenge and survival. Collect supplies and rescue your family before the nuke hits. Stay alive in your fallout shelter. Make difficult decisions, ration food and hunt mutant cockroaches. And maybe survive. Or not.

Price 8.79€
Rating 8.3
Release 25 May 2015
Fort Defense All hands on deck! Pirate armada dead ahead! Take part in an uncompromising struggle repelling freebooters' assaults. Watch out, the enemy may catch the tide for ruining your fortress. Build towers, collect crystals, upgrade spells and believe in your victory!

Price 14.79€
Rating 7.3
Release 22 May 2015
Axiom Verge Explore and uncover the mystery of a surreal alien world by blasting aliens and glitching your environment in this intense retro side-scrolling action/adventure.

Price -83% 3.15€
Rating 8.8
Release 14 May 2015
Home is Where One Starts... Home is Where One Starts... is a short, first-person exploration game in the same vein as Dear Esther or Gone Home. It’s a story about childhood, hope, and the miracle of memory. You play as a little girl from a broken home somewhere in the American South.

Price 2.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 12 May 2015
Windward Windward is an action-filled multiplayer sandbox game that puts you in control of a ship sailing the high seas of a large procedurally-generated world.

Price -90% 0.90€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 May 2015
The Music Machine A teenage girl and the vengeful ghost possessing her stumble onto horrors of cosmic proportions as the latter searches for a way to murder the former.

Price -37% 3.18€
Rating 8.3
Release 06 May 2015
Kerbal Space Program In Kerbal Space Program, take charge of the space program for the alien race known as the Kerbals. You have access to an array of parts to assemble fully-functional spacecraft that flies (or doesn’t) based on realistic aerodynamic and orbital physics.

Price -86% 5.47€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2015
Shantae and the Pirate's Curse Embark on an all-new adventure with Shantae, the hair-whipping belly dancing genie. After losing her magic, Shantae teams up with the nefarious pirate Risky Boots in order to save Sequin Land from a curse.

Price -96% 0.95€
Rating 8.9
Release 23 Apr 2015
Environmental Station Alpha Explore an abandoned space station in this retro-themed explorative action platformer.

Price -6% 7.53€
Rating 8.0
Release 22 Apr 2015
Convoy Convoy is a tactical roguelike-like inspired by Mad Max and FTL in which you cross a wasteland in search of parts for your broken ship. Presented in pixel art and set in a future post-apocalyptic setting, Convoy is a squad based tactical combat roguelike-like in its core.

Price -96% 0.58€
Rating 7.5
Release 21 Apr 2015
House of Caravan Taking place in a single mansion in Candlewood, northeast USA, in the early 20th Century, House of Caravan is a sinister adventure filled with dark secrets and vexing puzzles.

Price 1.99€
Rating 6.5
Release 16 Apr 2015
Domestic Dog Have you ever wanted to be a dog? Well now you can, kinda...

Price 5.19€
Rating 7.6
Release 10 Apr 2015
Lakeview Cabin Collection Delve into the diverse world of horror movies in this 2D action puzzler. Nothing can prepare you for the R-rated challenges you will face!

Price -72% 2.86€
Rating 8.8
Release 09 Apr 2015
Fire: Ungh’s Quest FIRE is an exploration-adventure with intuitive puzzle design. Without losing many words it tells a savagely hilarious story. Journey into the Stone Age and face the most challenging task of this era: The search for fire!

Price -96% 0.40€
Rating 8.0
Release 09 Apr 2015
In Verbis Virtus Use your real voice to cast spells in In Verbis Virtus, a fantasy adventure unlike any other. Step into the shoes of a wizard in search of an ancient power. Explore a lost temple, making your way through forgotten chambers brimming with unspeakable beauty and terror.

Price 19.50€
Rating 7.6
Release 03 Apr 2015

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