Best Open World 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 open world games.

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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% 0.59€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 May 2015
AKIBA'S TRIP: Undead & Undressed In Tokyo’s popular ”Electric Town” district, Akihabara, vampires called “Synthisters” walk among us. You must identify and dispose of them the only way you know how – by engaging them in hand-to-hand combat in order to strip them of their clothes so their bodies melt away in the sunlight.

Price -27% 14.69€
Rating 8.2
Release 26 May 2015
Magicka 2 The world’s most irreverent co-op action adventure returns! In the next chapter of Magicka, players ascend from the ruins of Aldrheim to experience a Midgård almost wiped free of Wizards after the Wizard Wars, with the few that do remain having either gone mad or extremely hostile toward all others

Price -67% 5.01€
Rating 8.1
Release 26 May 2015
Strife® Strife® is a truly free to play, competitive, MOBA that features non-stop action and engaging combat. Take control of powerful and versatile heroes, each capable of dominating in unique ways, and exert your will in an epic battle between two teams.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.5
Release 22 May 2015
Blockstorm Blockstorm is a FPS game set in a world made of destructible blocks. All maps and characters included in the game are made with the same tools that are available to the public. You can build everything in Blockstorm, and you can destroy it.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 21 May 2015
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt You are Geralt of Rivia, mercenary monster slayer. Before you stands a war-torn, monster-infested continent you can explore at will. Your current contract? Tracking down Ciri — the Child of Prophecy, a living weapon that can alter the shape of the world.

Price 29.99€
Rating 9.5
Release 18 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 -86% 0.44€
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 -95% 0.46€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 May 2015
Dex Dex is a 2D, side-scrolling, open-world cyberpunk RPG with a focus on exploration and non-linear gameplay.

Price -96% 0.82€
Rating 8.4
Release 07 May 2015
Space Colony: Steam Edition Space Colony: Steam Edition is a remaster of the real-time base builder and strategy game from Firefly Studios, creators of the Stronghold series. In Space Colony you colonize to survive, designing intergalactic bases that keep your crew productive, happy and defended against hostile alien threats.

Price 14.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 30 Apr 2015
State of Decay: YOSE Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

Price -80% 3.35€
Rating 8.0
Release 27 Apr 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 -84% 5.96€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2015
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 New cars, new tools, new options, more parts and much more fun in the next version of Car Mechanic Simulator! Take your wrench! Create and expand your auto repairs service empire. Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 will take you behind the scenes of daily routine in car workshop.

Price -91% 1.76€
Rating 9.0
Release 23 Apr 2015
Assassin’s Creed® Chronicles: China The first entry in the Assassin’s Creed Chronicles saga takes place in China, 1526, as the Ming dynasty starts to crumble. You embody Shao Jun, the last remaining Assassin of the Chinese Brotherhood, returning to her homeland with a vendetta.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
JumpJet Rex Test your dinosaur jump-jet skills with a game that redefines the platformer genre, aptly renaming it "platflyer." Simply put, you're a t-rex with rocket boots trying to save earth from an incoming asteroid. Do you have what it takes to stop it?

Price -96% 0.42€
Rating 8.2
Release 21 Apr 2015
MX vs. ATV Unleashed Take on the racing world in an attempt to knock off motocross and ATV riders in over 50 technical supercross and rugged outdoor tracks.

Price -93% 0.76€
Rating 6.9
Release 16 Apr 2015
Westerado: Double Barreled Westerado: Double Barreled. When your family is murdered by a mysterious desperado, you set out into the world to take revenge. Take control of your own fate and that of others, all using your trusty shooting iron.

Price -77% 3.51€
Rating 8.7
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
Copa Petrobras de Marcas COPA PETROBRAS DE MARCAS is a 100% free official game simulating the thrill of competing wheel-to-wheel with models from various automakers in some of the main Brazilian race tracks.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.5
Release 08 Apr 2015
Elite Dangerous Take control of your own starship and blaze your trail in an ever-changing galaxy. Master the arts of combat, mining and trade or venture out into the unknown across a 1:1 scale universe.

Price -87% 2.62€
Rating 7.7
Release 02 Apr 2015
VoidExpanse Explore the vast reaches of VoidExpanse -- mine asteroids, upgrade your ship, trade, complete missions, advance your character and survive fast-paced combat with hostile aliens and mercenaries in the rich and exciting Sci-Fi universe of VoidExpanse!

Price -94% 0.97€
Rating 6.8
Release 02 Apr 2015
RUNNING WITH RIFLES RUNNING WITH RIFLES is a top-down tactical shooter with open world RPG elements. In RWR, you join the ranks of an army as a common soldier, just like the thousands around you.

Price -75% 3.74€
Rating 8.6
Release 02 Apr 2015
RIDE Bikes from the world's most beloved motorcycle manufacturers, breathtaking races, and a round-the-world trip taking in 15 different locations, all this and more in the new videogame: RIDE.

Price -16% 16.82€
Rating 7.7
Release 27 Mar 2015
Age of Fear 2: The Chaos Lord GOLD Play as either Bel'Kara, a seductive Succubus at odds with the Underworld, or Katzok, a brutal Orc Chieftan fighting for his clan's dominance. The Age of Fear series is a deep and complex turn-based strategy (full of humour!) that fuses a tabletop wargame with RPG elements.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 27 Mar 2015
Spirits of Xanadu At the farthest edge of the explored universe, the research ship Xanadu slumbers in orbit around a mysterious planet. Her systems remain active but there has been no message from her crew for months. Now a lone operative has been sent to wake the Xanadu and bring her home to Earth.

Price -72% 1.46€
Rating 7.4
Release 26 Mar 2015
Pillars of Eternity Prepare to be enchanted by a world where the choices you make and the paths you choose shape your destiny. Obsidian Entertainment, the developer of Fallout: New Vegas™ and South Park: The Stick of Truth™, together with Paradox Interactive is proud to present Pillars of Eternity.

Price -93% 2.61€
Rating 8.6
Release 26 Mar 2015
Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas Oceanhorn: Monster of Uncharted Seas combines captivating storytelling, breathtaking 3D visuals and exciting gameplay into one epic action-adventure experience. In the game you explore the islands of Uncharted Seas, a world filled with many dangers, puzzles and secrets.

Price -85% 2.35€
Rating 7.7
Release 17 Mar 2015
Ori and the Blind Forest “Ori and the Blind Forest” tells the tale of a young orphan destined for heroics, through a visually stunning action-platformer crafted by Moon Studios for PC.

Price 5.60€
Rating 9.3
Release 10 Mar 2015
Assassin’s Creed® Rogue Introducing Assassin’s Creed® Rogue, the darkest chapter in the Assassin’s Creed franchise yet. As Shay, you will experience the slow transformation from Assassin to Assassin Hunter. Follow your own creed and set off on an extraordinary journey through New York City, the wild river valley, and far away to the icy cold waters of the North...

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 09 Mar 2015
Zombie Army Trilogy The cult horror shooter series comes to an apocalyptic conclusion with an epic new third chapter, a heart-pumping new horde mode, and remastered editions of the best-selling Nazi Zombie Army 1 & 2.

Price -97% 1.46€
Rating 8.5
Release 06 Mar 2015
The I of the Dragon The world of Nimoa is as beautiful as the morning dew, but only at first glance. Under the surface of hills and fertile valleys lurks an old and eternal evil. Living as a mould, stretching threads through an infected area like deadly toadstools. The center of this "being?" deep in the under world is the giant daemon, Skarborr.

Price -94% 0.47€
Rating 6.6
Release 06 Mar 2015
DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE DRAGON BALL XENOVERSE revisits famous battles from the series through your custom Avatar and other classic characters. New features include the mysterious Toki Toki City, new gameplay mechanics, new animations and many other amazing features!

Price -90% 3.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 26 Feb 2015
A Good Snowman Is Hard To Build An adorable puzzle game about being a monster and making snowmen.

Price -98% 0.44€
Rating 9.0
Release 25 Feb 2015
Disney's Chicken Little Based on Walt Disney’s feature 3D animation film Chicken Little, Chicken Little the action-packed video game catapults you into the hair-raising adventures of the movie and beyond.

Price 20.43€
Rating 6.6
Release 24 Feb 2015
Disney•Pixar Cars Play as Lightning McQueen, a rookie racecar looking to win fame and fortune at the Piston Cup Championship, in the video game adaptation of Disney•Pixar's Cars.

Price 19.50€
Rating 8.7
Release 24 Feb 2015
Reassembly A spaceship building and universe-exploration game. Collect resources, expand and grow your fleet, and conquer your personal galaxy. Stellar ambience by Peaks.

Price -5% 11.99€
Rating 9.1
Release 19 Feb 2015

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