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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Total War: ATTILA Against a darkening background of famine, disease and war, a new power is rising in the great steppes of the East. With a million horsemen at his back, the ultimate warrior king approaches, and his sights are set on Rome… The next instalment in the multi award-winning PC series that combines turn-based strategy with real-time tactics,...

Price -94% 2.73€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Feb 2015
Lucius II Lucius is taken to the psychiatric ward of St. Benedict’s Hospital by unsuspecting caretakers. The Book of Revelation predicts the birth of a child that would end up ruling the world with an iron rod. The first part of this prophecy has been fulfilled. It is time to take care of the rest.

Price -77% 4.63€
Rating 6.1
Release 13 Feb 2015
SUNLESS SEA LOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Sunless Sea is a game of discovery, loneliness and frequent death, set in the award-winning Victorian Gothic universe of Fallen London.

Price -95% 1.08€
Rating 8.1
Release 06 Feb 2015
Destination Sol Pilot your ship in the seamless open world made of space, planets, and more. Find new ships and equipment, find allies and beat all the enemies in this open source space shooter!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.6
Release 05 Feb 2015
Grow Home Experience the freedom of unbounded climbing as you take control of BUD, a procedurally animated robot on a quest to save his planet. Create your own path through an alien world as you control and ride a giant plant on a vertical journey to the stars.

Price -60% 3.22€
Rating 8.9
Release 04 Feb 2015
Survivalist It's one year after the collapse of civilization and self-centered hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler emerges from his specially constructed bunker in search of food. This is a huge open-world RPG where you have the freedom to play how you want - but your choices have consequences.

Price -92% 0.40€
Rating 7.7
Release 30 Jan 2015
Gear Up Feel the adrenaline as you control your unique tank in multiplayer arcade action! Build your ultimate war machine from over a million different combinations. Now, will you go for the rumbling caterpillar tracks or the crawling spider legs?

Price Free to play
Rating 7.3
Release 28 Jan 2015
Dying Light First-person action survival game set in a post-apocalyptic open world overrun by flesh-hungry zombies. Roam a city devastated by a mysterious virus epidemic. Scavenge for supplies, craft weapons, and face hordes of the infected.

Price -90% 2.72€
Rating 9.4
Release 26 Jan 2015
Venetica - Gold Edition In a fantastical Venice, The Corpus are deceived by a cunning necromancer. Transformed into an undead fiend, the conniving imposter is hell-bent on destroying the reinstated Death and the council of Corpus. Only Scarlett, the daughter of Death, can stand in his way.

Price 9.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 23 Jan 2015
Grey Goo Fight for control of a frontier world. Gather resources, build your base, and command your forces in battle. Survive long enough to unleash your ultimate weapon - THE EPIC.

Price -87% 3.80€
Rating 6.6
Release 23 Jan 2015
Saints Row: Gat out of Hell Join Johnny Gat & Kinzie Kensington as you tear apart Hell in a quest to save the Boss’ soul. Historical icons, old friends, older enemies, a talking gun, a full length musical number & a whole lot more shenanigans await!

Price -94% 0.90€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Jan 2015
HyperRogue Time moves when you move in a truly non-Euclidean world

Price 9.75€
Rating 8.9
Release 16 Jan 2015
Xsyon - Prelude Xsyon is a player driven apocalyptic fantasy sandbox MMORPG, set in a living and evolving environment. Players create the world they want to live in as they form tribes, construct towns, shape landscapes, create quests, hunt, farm, gather, build societies and develop a New World.

Price 27.99€
Rating 6.9
Release 29 Dec 2014
Karos Karos: Rebirth is a classic online MMORPG with dynamic combat, deep progression, and complete freedom of choice. Explore the vast world of Azmara, join PvP battles, castle sieges, and raids — create your unique hero and join thousands of players today!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 24 Dec 2014
Assetto Corsa Assetto Corsa v1.16 introduces the new "Laguna Seca" laser-scanned track, 7 new cars among which the eagerly awaited Alfa Romeo Giulia Quadrifoglio! Check the changelog for further info!

Price -88% 2.51€
Rating 9.2
Release 19 Dec 2014
Outcast 1.1 Outcast 1.1 is an enhanced version of the critically acclaimed action-adventure game developed in 1999 by Appeal for the PC.

Price -90% 0.53€
Rating 8.3
Release 18 Dec 2014
Microsoft Flight Simulator X: Steam Edition Take to the skies in the World’s favourite flight simulator! The multi award winning Microsoft Flight Simulator X lands on Steam for the first time. Take off from anywhere in the world, flying some of the world’s most iconic aircraft to any one of 24,000 destinations.

Price -80% 4.99€
Rating 8.5
Release 18 Dec 2014
METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES World-renowned Kojima Productions brings the Metal Gear Solid franchise to Steam with METAL GEAR SOLID V: GROUND ZEROES. Play as the legendary hero Snake and infiltrate a Cuban military base to rescue the hostages. Can you make it out alive?

Price -66% 6.83€
Rating 8.2
Release 18 Dec 2014
NEO Scavenger NEO Scavenger is a game where you must survive in the wasteland long enough to figure out who you are. Each turn, you must decide where to go, how to scavenge for supplies, and how to deal with anything and anyone you encounter.

Price -84% 2.37€
Rating 8.7
Release 15 Dec 2014
Strife: Veteran Edition Hailed as the original FPS-RPG game that spawned countless imitators, Strife: Veteran Edition is a love letter to the classic from 1996.

Price 9.99€
Rating 8.4
Release 12 Dec 2014
StarMade The ultimate space sandbox. Participate in epic fleet battles, form alliances, strive to dominate entire galaxies and harness the universe’s resources for your industrious empire or the destruction of others. Customise your experience, the universe is yours!

Price -74% 3.90€
Rating 6.6
Release 04 Dec 2014
Dead State: Reanimated Dead State is a narrative-driven survival RPG set at the dawn of the undead apocalypse. Drawing inspiration from classic RPGs like Fallout, X-Com, and Suikoden, Dead State combines strategic, turn-based combat with base building mechanics, character creation, and social management.

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.1
Release 04 Dec 2014
Craft The World Craft The World is a unique sandbox strategy game, the mix of Dungeon Keeper, Terraria and Dwarf Fortress. Explore a random generated world populated by dangerous creatures, build a dwarf fortress, gather resources, and craft all the items, weapons, and armor you need.

Price -96% 0.92€
Rating 8.6
Release 24 Nov 2014
Amazing Frog? Amazing Frog? is an openworld, sandbox, physics game. Grand Frog Auto in Swindon, with farting ragdoll frogs.

Price 19.50€
Rating 9.1
Release 21 Nov 2014
Passing Pineview Forest Passing Pineview Forest is a free mini-prequel set in the universe of Pineview Drive. Behind the abandoned house on Pineview Drive lies ominous Pineview Forest...

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 21 Nov 2014
Celestial Command Mine asteroids, salvage space debris, design your own small or massive spacecraft using individual functional components, complete missions, and engage in battles against enemies in a vast galaxy with realistic physics based on orbital mechanics or in a classic physics mode.

Price 19.99€
Rating 6.3
Release 20 Nov 2014
Escape Dead Island Escape Dead Island is a Survival-Mystery adventure that lets players delve into the Dead Island universe and unravel the origins of the zombie outbreak.

Price -97% 0.54€
Rating 6.1
Release 20 Nov 2014
Construction Simulator 2015 In Construction Simulator 2015, you take the controls of 16 realistic construction machines made by LIEBHERR, STILL and MAN with high-quality 3D graphics.

Price -79% 3.24€
Rating 8.0
Release 18 Nov 2014
Far Cry® 4 Hidden in the towering Himalayas lies Kyrat, a country steeped in tradition and violence. You are Ajay Ghale. Traveling to Kyrat to fulfill your mother’s dying wish, you find yourself caught up in a civil war to overthrow the oppressive regime of dictator Pagan Min.

Price 29.99€
Rating 8.3
Release 17 Nov 2014
Assassin's Creed® Unity Paris, 1789. In this action-adventure game, experience the French Revolution through the eyes of Arno Dorian. Become an Assassin and expose the true powers behind the Revolution for the fate of a nation.

Price -75% 7.49€
Rating 7.7
Release 12 Nov 2014
LEGO® Batman™ 3: Beyond Gotham The Caped Crusader joins forces with the super heroes of the DC Comics universe and blasts off to outer space to stop the evil Brainiac from destroying Earth.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.7
Release 11 Nov 2014
Retro City Rampage™ DX OPEN-WORLD carjacking goes back to the '80s in this 8-BIT nostalgic throwback. Run missions! Outrun the law! Rampage the city with weapons, power-ups and vehicles!

Price -83% 2.68€
Rating 8.4
Release 11 Nov 2014
Eldevin Eldevin is the award winning indie story-driven Free to Play MMORPG (Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game) from Hunted Cow Studios. Join thousands of other players and explore the mystical lands of Eldevin.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 05 Nov 2014
Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition Icewind Dale: Enhanced Edition revives the classic RPG with fresh updates for modern players. Build a party of Dungeons & Dragons heroes and explore the frozen tundra in this retro fantasy adventure.

Price -96% 0.83€
Rating 8.6
Release 30 Oct 2014
Farming Simulator 15 Welcome to the new generation of Farming Simulator!With a brand new graphics and physics engine, Farming Simulator 15 offers an immense open world, filled with details and visual effects transporting the Farming Simulator franchise to a new era.

Price -82% 3.04€
Rating 9.0
Release 30 Oct 2014
Double Action: Boogaloo Double Action is a free stylish multiplayer game about diving, flipping, and sliding your way into action movie mayhem.

Price Free to play
Rating 9.1
Release 23 Oct 2014

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