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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America's Army: Proving Grounds America’s Army: Proving Grounds is the official game of the U.S. Army and part of the highly acclaimed America’s Army game series. This free military game focuses on small unit tactical maneuvers and puts you to the test in a wide variety of new America’s Army maps and AA fan favorites.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 29 Aug 2013
Shelter Experience the wild as a badger sheltering your cubs from harm. On your journey, you will be stalked by birds of prey, encounter perils of the night, cross fierce rivers, escape forest fires and face the looming threat of starvation. Food is to be found, but is there enough for everyone?

Price -84% 2.50€
Rating 8.2
Release 28 Aug 2013
LOST PLANET® 3 The extreme and unpredictable conditions that characterized the Lost Planet series return, harsher than ever before. Lost Planet 3 reveals new truths about the foreboding planet and the colonial history of E.D.N. III.

Price -96% 1.04€
Rating 6.2
Release 26 Aug 2013
Saints Row IV: Re-Elected Experience the insane antics of Saints Row IV. The Saints have gone from the Penthouse to the White House - but Earth has been invaded and it’s up to you to save it with an arsenal of superpowers and strange weapons, in the wildest open world game ever.

Price -78% 4.40€
Rating 8.7
Release 22 Aug 2013
The Bureau: XCOM Declassified The year is 1962 and the Cold War has the nation gripped by fear.  A top-secret government unit called The Bureau begins investigating a series of mysterious attacks by an enemy more powerful than communism.

Price -98% 0.41€
Rating 6.9
Release 22 Aug 2013
DCS World Steam Edition Feel the excitement of flying the Su-25T "Frogfoot" attack jet and the TF-51D "Mustang" in the free-to-play Digital Combat Simulator World!

Price Free to play
Rating 8.4
Release 02 Aug 2013
Toki Tori 2+ An epic open-world puzzle Metroidbrainia that respects your intelligence! Knowledge is your superpower. Use creatures as tools to determine your own path.

Price -92% 1.32€
Rating 8.1
Release 11 Jul 2013
Thunder Wolves When this “wolf pack” strikes, you hear the thunder roll. The Thunder Wolves attack from the air. They are mercenaries, and the best helicopter pilots in the world. Every one of them is ready for action at all times—and ready to fight evil, wherever it lurks.

Price -90% 1.09€
Rating 8.1
Release 15 May 2013
Far Cry 3 - Blood Dragon Far Cry® 3: Blood Dragon is THE Kick-Ass Cyber Shooter.Welcome to an 80’s vision of the future. The year is 2007 and you are Sargent Rex Colt, a Mark IV Cyber Commando. Your mission: get the girl, kill the baddies, and save the world.

Price 14.99€
Rating 8.6
Release 01 May 2013
Zeno Clash 2 Ghat's story is far from over: Zeno Clash 2 picks up where the deliciously brazen first game left off. After 4 years of waiting, the sequel to the surreal first-person brawler brings more variety in combat and levels, and even more bizarre storytelling into the beguiling world of Zenozoik.

Price -84% 2.50€
Rating 7.5
Release 30 Apr 2013
Mars: War Logs An Intense Cyberpunk Rpg On the Red Planet! Mars War Logs takes you to Mars, nearly a century after the cataclysm that threw the planet and its colonists into chaos. Water has become the most precious resource on the arid red planet, with a few companies fighting a perpetual war for its control.

Price -90% 0.52€
Rating 7.3
Release 26 Apr 2013
Don't Starve Don’t Starve is an uncompromising wilderness survival game full of science and magic. Enter a strange and unexplored world full of strange creatures, dangers, and surprises. Gather resources to craft items and structures that match your survival style.

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 9.5
Release 23 Apr 2013
ORION: Prelude Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.

Price 0.99€
Rating 7.4
Release 16 Apr 2013
Kingdom Wars Kingdom Wars is a free to play 3D MMORTS with real-time siege combat, without the pay to win element so common in the genre. Kingdom Wars offers beautiful 3D online world, where players construct strongholds, direct citizens, complete quests and eventually manage a global empire.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 01 Apr 2013
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2 takes the bulls-eye precision of its predecessor to new and exciting heights!

Price -88% 1.25€
Rating 7.4
Release 11 Mar 2013
Euro Truck Simulator The original Euro Truck Simulator - the game which has become the classic of the genre and is still relevant today. The first truck simulation game in a European setting, with European long haul trucks!

Price -79% 1.07€
Rating 8.1
Release 08 Mar 2013
Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ** Please note: a remastered and improved edition of this game is now available in Zombie Army Trilogy.**Featuring a co-op campaign for 1 to 4 players, Nazi Zombie Army is a horrifying new stand-alone expansion of the award-winning Sniper Elite series.

Price -96% 0.64€
Rating 8.5
Release 28 Feb 2013
Champions of Regnum Choose your Realm and engage in the most dynamic player driven battlefield available on any MMO. Fight for the Alsius Empire, protect the woods of Syrtis or avenge the Brotherhood of Ignis.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
Release 27 Feb 2013
Star Conflict Star Conflict is an action-packed, massively multiplayer space simulation game that puts players in the role of elite pilots engaging in a widespread interplanetary skirmish. The whole world for PVP and PVE!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 27 Feb 2013
Brutal Legend Brütal Legend is an action-adventure that marries visceral action combat with open-world freedom. Set in a universe somewhere between Lord of the Rings and Spinal Tap, it’s a fresh take on the action/driving genre, which in this case is full of imitation cover bands, demons intent on enslaving humanity and Heavy metal tunes.

Price -93% 1.10€
Rating 9.1
Release 26 Feb 2013
Scribblenauts Unlimited The best-selling, award-winning franchise is back – on your home PC in gorgeous HD for the first time.

Price -94% 1.29€
Rating 9.1
Release 15 Feb 2013
Omerta - City of Gangsters Omerta - City of Gangsters is a simulation game with tactical turn-based combat. Taking the role of a fresh-from-the-boat immigrant, with dreams of the big life, the player will work his way up the criminal hierarchy of 1920’s Atlantic City.

Price -89% 1.66€
Rating 6.5
Release 31 Jan 2013
Proteus Proteus is a game about exploration and immersion in a dream-like island world where the soundtrack to your play is created by your surroundings. Played in first-person, the primary means of interaction is simply your presence in the world and how you observe it.

Price -65% 3.57€
Rating 7.3
Release 30 Jan 2013
EverQuest Welcome to EverQuest® - the original fantasy MMORPG. Explore huge worlds, fight challenging foes, and grow your character with friends. Discover why players have quested, grouped, and raided in Norrath for more than two decades.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.8
Release 13 Dec 2012
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own 1654 AC. The Caribbean. A place of opportunities and mysteries.

Price -81% 2.91€
Rating 7.1
Release 06 Dec 2012
Mabinogi Embark on amazing adventures, build lasting friendships or even find romance in this unique social game, where a welcoming community with thousands of devoted players await! Whoever you are, or whatever your heart’s desire, come express it in Mabinogi and start living your fantasy life!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.2
Release 06 Dec 2012
Miasmata Miasmata is a first-person survival/adventure game, developed from the ground-up by brothers Joe and Bob Johnson. You play as Robert Hughes, a plague-stricken scientist on a journey to discover a cure. Your adventure begins on the shores of a remote and mysterious island.

Price -94% 0.94€
Rating 7.4
Release 28 Nov 2012
Far Cry 3 Discover the dark secrets of a lawless island ruled by violence and take the fight to the enemy as you try to escape. You’ll need more than luck to escape alive!

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 28 Nov 2012
LEGO® The Lord of the Rings™ Based on The Lord of the Rings motion picture trilogy, LEGO® The Lord of the Rings follows the original story-lines of The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers, and The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King, taking players through the epic story events re-imagined with the humor and endl

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.8
Release 27 Nov 2012
PlanetSide 2 PlanetSide 2 is an all-out planetary war, where thousands of players battle as one across enormous continents. Utilize infantry, ground and air vehicles, and teamwork to destroy your enemies in this revolutionary first-person shooter on a massive scale.

Price Free to play
Rating 8.0
Release 20 Nov 2012
POSTAL 2 Live a week in the life of "The POSTAL Dude"; a hapless everyman just trying to check off some chores. Buying milk, returning an overdue library book, getting Gary Coleman's autograph, what could possibly go wrong?

Price -93% 0.73€
Rating 9.6
Release 02 Nov 2012
Divinity II: Developer's Cut Dragons: they have been hunted, they have been slain, but now the hour to strike back has come.

Price 19.99€
Rating 8.2
Release 29 Oct 2012
Primal Carnage A savage online shooter, where players do battle as man or beast in class-based deathmatches and a frantic escape mode. Unleash your inner dinosaur!

Price -75% 2.04€
Rating 7.5
Release 29 Oct 2012
Lucius Equipped with supernatural powers, take control of Lucius as he begins his blood filled tour of horror through his own house.

Price -78% 2.23€
Rating 7.9
Release 26 Oct 2012
Zombie Driver HD Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.

Price -97% 0.34€
Rating 8.1
Release 17 Oct 2012
Euro Truck Simulator 2 Travel across Europe as king of the road, a trucker who delivers important cargo across impressive distances! With dozens of cities to explore, your endurance, skill and speed will all be pushed to their limits.

Price -67% 6.74€
Rating 9.7
Release 12 Oct 2012

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