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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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 -90% 0.50€
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 24.99€
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 -78% 6.28€
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 -93% 1.05€
Rating 7.4
Release 22 Jan 2015
HyperRogue A truly non-Euclidean tactical puzzle/roguelike!

Price -79% 2.14€
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 -89% 2.29€
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 -85% 0.80€
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 24.99€
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% 6.90€
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 -73% 4.02€
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 -34% 9.97€
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 -95% 0.95€
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 -96% 0.63€
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 -80% 3.10€
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

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