Best Open World Games on Steam

Unlike generic lists, our strategy 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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Fantasy Tales Online Fantasy Tales Online is a retro MMORPG where you must form parties, collect gear, fight through dungeons and defeat bosses. Featuring puzzles, a rich item system and complex encounters. This isn’t your run-of-the-mill grindfest MMO title!

Price Free to play
Rating 6.6
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
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
侠客风云传(Tale of Wuxia) Tale of Wuxia has been dedicated to providing gameplayers with a player-defined platform, where they can customize their own Wuxia. Instead of being restricted to characters’ basic properties, in this new version, gameplayers can also choose the personalities and talents of their own.

Price 16.99€
Rating 7.5
Release 28 Apr 2016
Worlds Adrift Island Creator Worlds Adrift is a Community-Crafted MMO: each and every island has been crafted by our playerbase. With the free Island Creator tool, this is your chance to create your own adventure for the community to experience. A crumbling ruin, or a teeming jungle, help expand the edges of Foundation ever further!

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 28 Apr 2016
Ori and the Blind Forest: Definitive Edition “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.

Price -75% 4.99€
Rating 9.4
Release 27 Apr 2016
Wayward You awake to discover yourself no longer in the company of good men or a fine seafaring vessel. Treasure... you remember something about treasure. Wayward is a challenging turn-based, top-down, wilderness survival roguelike. Explore, build, and most importantly survive in these unforgiving lands.

Price -93% 0.60€
Rating 8.2
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
Don't Starve Together Fight, Farm, Build and Explore Together in the standalone multiplayer expansion to the uncompromising wilderness survival game, Don't Starve.

Price -54% 7.04€
Rating 9.4
Release 21 Apr 2016
Ice Lakes Ice Lakes is a modern ice fishing simulator with different single and multiplayer game modes and sandbox approach to wintertime fishing. Use and customize wide selection of fishing gear and learn how changing season, bottom topology, time of day and weather conditions affects fish behavior.

Price -86% 2.13€
Rating 8.2
Release 19 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 1.99€
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 -85% 3.08€
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 -74% 5.66€
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 -61% 23.84€
Rating 9.3
Release 11 Apr 2016
StarsOne You’ll see an unexplored world full of dangers, mysteries and adventures. You will explore randomly generated planets, develop industry, conduct trade, plant colonies, explore outer space.

Price -69% 3.05€
Rating 7.0
Release 08 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 -91% 1.08€
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 9.75€
Rating 7.4
Release 05 Apr 2016
Age of Conquest IV Age of Conquest is a turn-based grand strategy wargame.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.9
Release 05 Apr 2016
CHKN Behold, the miracle of life… packed into cubes! Create fantastic creatures in an open-world sandbox game like no other. Explore, craft, and survive—all with the help of your very own creations.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.7
Release 01 Apr 2016
Epistory - Typing Chronicles Epistory immerses you in an atmospheric action/adventure game where you play a girl riding a giant fox who fights an insectile corruption from an origami world. As you progress and explore this world, the story literally unfolds and the mysteries of the magic power of the words are revealed.

Price -89% 1.68€
Rating 9.2
Release 30 Mar 2016
The Deer "The Deer" is an educational inter­ac­tive expe­ri­ence for children. You'll be an ancient Deer during the Pleistocene (Ice Age) epoch and you'll discover everything about this marvelous era. Unfortunately there were no T-Rex during this age since they were already extinct millions of years before.

Price 0.90€
Rating 6.1
Release 28 Mar 2016
Tree of Savior (English Ver.) Tree of Savior(abbreviated as TOS thereafter) is an MMORPG in which you embark on a journey to search for the goddesses in the world of chaos. Fairy-tale like colors accompanied with beautiful graphics in TOS will have you reminiscing about precious moments all throughout the game.

Price Free to play
Rating 6.4
Release 28 Mar 2016
MachineCraft The main purpose of this game is showing and watching machines made out of blocks. Some of the game-modes allow you to battle or race against other players. (testing phase) You can create your original machine with ease by reassembling those machines that are distributed, or by using the automatic control block.

Price Free to play
Rating 7.4
Release 25 Mar 2016
Way of the Samurai 3 Honour, sacrifice, betrayal… Your choices make you who you are. How will history remember you? Choose your friends and enemies carefully in a game where every decision has far-reaching consequences, and where finishing the game is just the beginning of your journey…

Price 19.99€
Rating 7.6
Release 23 Mar 2016

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