26 Best Exploration Games on Steam

Darkest Dungeon is a Turn-Based RTS, Action-RPG, Adventure, Dungeon Crawler and environmentally Gothic video game with great Rogue-like elements. The game lets you be a Great War Lord and allows you to recruit, train and lead a team of great warriors to explore a dark world of darkest dungeons. Your main objective is to explore the dungeons and collect the valuables, and encounter the most brutal and incredibly stressing horrors and enemies. You must lead your team of heroes and explore the game world with courage, determination and bravery. You must kill your enemies and return to your settlement as true heroes. Darkest Dungeon provides with the creepiest enemy bosses and a number of game levels to play and enjoy the game. Every valuable collected and every enemy killed allows you to win game points that you can use to buy upgrades and fight your enemies with more courage and power. Darkest Dungeon is one of the best game of this specific genre and it will definitely leave you spell bounded for a great amount of time. Do try it out.

Divinity: Original Sin is a marvelous Single-Player, Action-Adventure and a Cooperative Fantasy RPG video game by Larian Studios. The game lets you be a pair (Cooperative) of two Source Hunters who are basically the members of a faction that is destined to eliminate dangerous magic named The Source that with the help of The Sorcerers is swallowing up the realm on a very high pace. Your task is to gather up your party of individuals like you and go on to the most epic quests and adventures to hunt down the Sorcerers and finally eradicate the Dark magic The Source. To achieve the goals, you must get into the brutal combats, explore an open world, join your friends in a Co-Op multiplayer game-play and enjoy this cool game to the limits. With wonderfully created mechanics, enhanced graphics, unique character customization options, regular upgrades and a huge pile of DLC (Downloadable Content), Divinity: Original Sin is a wonder.

XCOM: Enemy Within is a Downloadable Content Pack for the XCOM: Enemy Unknown released for multiple platforms developed by Firaxis Games and published by 2K Games. The DLC pack introduces new gameplay elements, as well as features new themes of transhumanism. The gameplay and plot remain the same like the original title with some extra features. In the game, the player needs to manage the headquarters of XCOM in real-time, but most of the gameplay comprises turn-based combats against rogue human faction and invading aliens. The game includes the Meld (the new resource), the player must lead his army to fight enemies while securing Meld. Single-player campaign consists of forty-seven maps and introduces thirteen maps in multiplayer mode. XCOM: Enemy Within offers core features such as New Soldier Abilities, New Equipment, and Weapons, Strategic Resources, Multiplayer (Maps, Units, and Abilities), etc. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Slay the Spire is an engaging Deck-Building, Rogue-like, and Single-player video game created by Mega Crit Games for multiple platforms. The game blends the rogue-like and card games to offers the best Single-player video game. During the game, the player needs to craft his unique deck, encounter strange creatures, find relics of immense power, and defeat enemies to advances through the game. There are two core characters each with its unique abilities and power, and the player can select one of them to jump into the world to fulfil the tasks. The game offers more than two-hundred cards each with unique skills. The player will discover hundreds of cards and can include them in his deck with each attempt at climbing the Sphere. Slay the Spire includes core features such as Randomly Generated World, over 50 Combat Encounters, 200 Implemented Cards, Tons of Unlockable and more. Try it out, and it’ll entertain you.

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is a Single-player Role-playing video game. The game is set in the Star Wars Universe and the story takes places four thousand years before the Galactic Empire. The story revolves around the player character who escapes his ship with a skilled pilot named as Carth Onasi soon after the attack of a former Jedi and now a Dark Lord named as Darth Malak. Soon after their escape this ship crashes on a planet Taris, where a martial law gets imposed by Darth Malak in search of a skilled Jedi Padawan Bastilla Shan. Player character finds other Jedis on Taris and finds Shan before Darth Malak and rescues her from the clutches of a swoop biker gang and escapes Taris before the imminent destruction. Player character takes refuge in a Jedi Academy on the planet Dantooine and learns to be a Jedi, finds the lost Star Map and knows about the Star Forge, the ultimate source of Darth Malak’s military power and resources. This is where the player gets into the play and the game tasks the player to find the truth about his/her identity, find and save the Darth Raven, save him and destroy the Star Forge. With all the dramatic story and thrilling events, blasting encounters and a typically Star Wars influenced gameplay, fantastic visuals and a remarkable characters, Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic is one of the best games of the series.

Dead Synchronicity is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, and Single-player video game created by Fictiorama Studios and published by Daedalic Entertainment. The game takes place in the post-apocalyptic themed world in future and offers the episodic gameplay where the player takes on the role of the protagonist named as Michael, who an amnesiac. According to the storyline, the player wakes up in the apocalyptic new world, where lots of humans known as the Dissolved have a dangerous disease that kills them. During the gameplay, the player can explore the secret areas, struggling to work out what is going on while confused by dreams and strange visions that cloud his brain. The game introduces the dystopian, a dark blood-stained plot, and space-time distortions atmosphere. There are several objectives that the player needs to complete to save the humanity. As the game progresses, it becomes difficult to play. With addictive gameplay, superb graphics, and smooth controls, Dead Synchronicity is the best game to enjoy.

The Room is a 3D puzzle, adventure, and mystery-based video game developed by Fireproof Games. The game offers a brilliant and challenging game-play in which you go through several boxes built using complex physical mechanisms. You are tasked with solving the mysterious puzzles to open the boxes. Each box has a different mystery that takes the character to new levels. Furthermore, it offers a tutorial mode to learn about the game environments and master gaming skills.

It offers layers of compelling problems that do not allow you to take your eyes away from the gaming screen. It consists of realistic graphics that provide you a natural view of various levels of the game. In addition, the amazing secrets of all the stages make it difficult for the user to stop playing. So start playing and solve enigmatic mysteries and give yourself an enhanced dose of entertainment.

American Truck Simulator or also known as ATS is a brand new Vehicle Driving Simulation by SCS software. The game is a parallel sequel to the popular Euro Truck Simulator 2 (By SCS Software), and it offers a similar gaming experience. Along with being a massive hit and a fantastic Driving Simulation, American Truck Simulator is a Business Management Simulation as well as it allows the players to grow their business by moving goods to various locations on the game map. Every goods delivery rewards the players with money and experience points that they can use to buy upgrades, more vehicles and hire more NPC drivers. Unlike Euro Truck Simulator 2, American Truck Simulator offers a time-based gameplay and focuses more on delivering the goods with fewer damages. If a goods delivery is late and there are a lot of damages to the goods, the driver gets to pay the damages with money in his/her bank. As mentioned earlier, the player can buy more Trucks, hire more drivers and spend the money on upgrading them with all the necessary items such as Repairs, Fuel, and Structural upgrades, etc. Another important part of the game is that it allows the players to manage their own Trucking business by hiring more NPC drivers and keeping on adding more Trucks to the fleet. That way players can enjoy both Driving and Business Simulation at the same time. American Truck Simulator offers various locations in the game including California, Nevada, Arizona, Mexico, and Canada and features different types of Trucks, environments and day and night cycles as well. With a fantastic game setting (USA), beautiful and fluent 3D graphics, enhanced game mechanics and addictive gameplay, American Truck Simulator is one of the best Driving Simulations to try.

Life is Strange is a Single-player Graphic Adventure and Interactive Fiction video game by Square Enix. The game consists of five main episodes and focuses on the character of a Photography student named as Maxine Caulfield. Maxine Caulfield discovers out that she has the special ability to reverse time and any specific moment. The story takes a twist when Maxine foresees a huge Storm raging to destroy her town and that the time when she realizes that she’s the only one to prevent it from happening. Life is Strange allows the players to control the character of Maxine Caulfield and follow the narrative as it unfolds into all the storyful actions that the player character performs. Amazing trips to the past, fantastic quests, freedom to explore and the ability to manipulate environmental elements, loads of challenging puzzles and game ending based upon the actions performed by the character, Life is Strange offers a truly remarkable gameplay experience that is based on pure graphics and interactive elements. With an episodic gameplay, various character archetypes, a great story, graphic adventure nature and point-and-click puzzles, Life is Strange offers beautiful visuals and an impressively addictive gameplay to enjoy. Life is Strange is available to play on Microsoft Windows, Mac, PlayStation, Xbox and Linux platforms.

Euro Truck Simulator is a vehicle simulation game developed by SCS Software. The game is set in the beautiful surroundings of Europe and takes you to an amazing tour of various cities from where you can pick up the cargo and deliver it to various locations. The game lets you choose your starting point chosen from various countries (Austria, France, Belgium, Italy, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, and Switzerland). After you have started, you can pick up the cargo from the storage and deliver it to the assigned destination. Every goods drop allows you to earn money that you can use to buy a new truck from a number of European manufacturers (Mercedes, Renault, Scania, and Volvo) or you can upgrade the one you are having and expand your business to other countries. Euro Truck Simulator is a great driving Simulation/game and provides with an amazing game-play filled with a lot of great things. Talking about best games like Euro Truck Simulator, we have created a list of some really cool driving simulators/games for you to play and enjoy. Let’s take a look the list below.

Don’t Starve Together is a standalone Action-Adventure and Survival expansion pack of the original Don’t Starve with Multiplayer functionality. The game offers Reign of Giants mod that features new characters, new challenges, Puzzles, biomes, seasons and creatures to immerse you with the game-play a bit more tightly. As the same character of Wilson, you’ll have to explore a strange world filled with all the strangest creatures, hazards, dangers and wonders. In order to survive, you’ll have to gather as much resources as you can, craft items with all the available materials, build different structures, interact with other online players, fight them off of your property and save your items, or simply befriend other online players, explore the world together survive the harshest environment and Survive. With a wonderful setting, cool visuals, enhanced mechanics and an addictive game-play, Don’t Starve Together is a fun game to play and enjoy.

Stranded Deep is an Adventure, Survival, First-person Exploration, and Single-player video game published and developed by Beam Team Games. The game takes place in the Pacific Ocean, and the story centers on a plane crash survivor stranded in the deep waters. You, as the protagonist, find yourself in the life-invading scenarios. The game introduces dynamic day-night and weather systems and includes a building system to create shelters on an Island.

In the beginning, you have limited resources and items, however, as the game progresses, you will get access to further supplies essential to survive longer. It would help if you managed your vitals of thirst, blood, hunger against the challenges you face. It includes prominent features such as Terrain Variety, Co-op Gameplay, Random Collectibles, Physics-based Crafting System, and more. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Hotline Miami is an Action, Violent, Top-down, and Single-player Shooter video game developed by Dennaton Games and published by Devolver Digital. The game takes place in the fictional world Miami in 1989 and follows tow protagonists named Biker and Jacket. According to the story, the protagonist receives a calls who instruct them to start operation against the Local Russian Mafia. You can select your character and dive into the game world where you can explore it from top-down perspective with stealth element. As the story progress, the game becomes more challenging violent and you have to face different challenges such as powerful foes, and objectives. The entire game is divided into several chapters and each chapter has a set of several stages. Explore each level, obtain power-ups, score the highest points and unlock further content. Slaughter the members of Russian mafia using different weapons and keep your city clean from them. With breathtaking story, brilliant mechanics, and superb visuals, Hotline Miami is the best game to play and enjoy.

Feed and Grow: Fish is an Action, Underwater Survival, Single-player and Multiplayer Simulation developed by OldB1ood and published by Greens s.r.o. The game offers superb gameplay where you control your favorite fish to hunt and eat other fish to grow into huge beasts. It takes place in the sea environment full of fishes. You start the game as Bibos and dive into the environment to grow.

You can explore the environment from a third-person perspective, find the fish, hunt and eat to grow in size. As the game advances, it becomes tough to play. Unlock other fish species and navigate the large environment to earn experience points. You must avoid bigger fish than you to survive as long as possible. Feed and Grow: Fish includes prominent features such as Open World, Tons of Fish Species, Technical Stuff, New Animations, etc. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Kerbal Space Program or also known as KSP is a Single-player Space Flight, Building and Construction and Simulation video game by Squad. The game is built using the updated Unity Engine and offers playability on Multiple Platforms including Linux, Microsoft Windows, Mac OS X, PlayStation, Xbox, and Nintendo Wii. The game allows the players to control a whole Space Mission Program named as Kerbal Space Program, Have a Crew of Humanoid Aliens known as Kerbals and enjoy Exploring the Space. Game’s Complex and realistic Orbital Physics helps players learn about the Hohmann Transfer Orbits (Start from a Lower Orbit and end up in a Higher Orbit) maneuvers and enjoy piloting the ship. According to the gameplay and game story, the game tasks the players to head a Nascent Space Program, Control the Kerbals (Intelligent Humanoid Aliens from an Earth-like planet Kerbin) and enjoy learning to maneuver into Space. Kerbal Space Program gameplay is divided into two main parts such as Construction and Flight, and it allows the players to construct various types of Rockets, Aircraft, Rovers, etc. Once the ships are created, the players can simply launch them into Space from in-game launch Pad, explore the Space and complete various objectives of the game. The game offers various types of mission such as Reaching to a Certain Height, Escape the Atmosphere, Reach Stable Orbit, Capture Asteroids, Create Space Stations, Visit different Planets and collect information about them, etc. With all the Space Exploration fun, Unique game Physics and mechanics, and interesting gameplay, Kerbal Space Program is a fun Space Simulation to enjoy.

Factorio mixes the elements of Action, Real-time Strategy, and Survival developed and published by Wube Software. The game supports both Single and Multiplayer modes and offers an exciting story revolves around a spaceman who landed on an alien planet due to crash. As the survival, your primary objective is to harvest resources by hand to build up different structures, and a rocket to escape back to home. The inhabitants of the planet are trying to defend their environment from the destruction and pollution by you. The game is about creating a colony, searching resources, and surviving as long as possible to progress in the match. In the beginning, you starts off from an empty land, and your initial task is to build a colony by collecting resources and expand it further and further to progress through the game. There are three vehicles available that you can use during gameplay such as train, car, and tank. Three types of enemies present to take you a tough time while you are completing your objectives such as splitters, worms, and bitters. Explore the world from a top-down perspective, accomplish randomly generated levels and build your spaceship to escape to home. Try it out, and you’ll enjoy it.

Heroes of Might and Magic is a popular Series of Action, RPG, MMO and RTS video games. The whole series allows you to engage yourself into epic Fantasy-themed encounters with the enemies and lets you command over massive armies of Mythical Creatures, Explore a massive game world, collect resources and artifacts and wage wars against the enemies, defeat them in epic conflicts and gain experience points. With a number of characters, brilliant setting, amazingly addictive nature and an immersive game-play, Heroes of Might and Magic is a wonderful game to play. Games like Heroes of Might and Magic are a huge source of pure entertainment for all the hardcore Action, RPG and RTS fans. Heroes of Might and magic offers brilliant games packed up with immersive game-plays, great story-lines, state of the art visual details and loads of amazing stuff to discover. Do try this series out if you really are a fan of MMO, RTS and Fantasy gaming.

Tropico 5 is a marvelous new MMO-RTS, City-Building, Management Simulation that offers gameplay a lot similar to its predecessors and Anno series games. With a unique Co-op Multiplayer (4-Player) feature, Tropico 5 lets you build whole cities on different islands and allows you to work with or against each other. The main task in the game is to manage your cities and take your settlement to the Colonial Era, witness World Wars, Cold War and finally reach to the modern era, embrace technological advancements and thrive in an advanced society. You can also be one of the super powers of the time by simply working hard, write the constitution and decide the independence of your cities or countries and by waging wars against your enemies and defeating them. With all the wonderful building and management options, great visuals, and an addictive game-play, Tropico 5 is a brilliant Simulation to spend your precious time on. Do try it out for a beautiful MMO, RTS, management and City-building experience.

Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is an Action, VR (Virtual Reality), Single-player and Online Multiplayer First-person Shooter (FPS) video game developed Croteam VR and published by Developer Digital. The game offers the stunning locations where it takes place and comes with a frantic arcade action FPS gameplay, introducing both single-player and co-op campaign modes, as well as multiple campaigns. The player steps into the shoes of the protagonist named Serious Sam, who is sent back through the time to ancient Egypt to fight, seek wisdom and explore the environment in fifteen massive levels. There are over eighty hidden places available, waiting for the player to be discovered. The player can pit against up to sixteen players from all over the world in different versus and co-op modes, some modes available to play in campaign levels, while some in unique versus levels. The player manipulates the world from a first-person perspective, the battle against strange creatures to save the world and become the hero. With improved graphics, superb mechanics, and smooth controls, Serious Sam VR: The First Encounter is the wonderful gameplay to play.

Hero of the Kingdom is an Adventure, Point-and-Click, Fantasy-based and Single-player Hidden Object video game developed and published by Lonely Troops for multiple platforms. The game takes place in the stunning land and set out the player on a dangerous journey where he tries his best to save his beloved father and the Kingdom. It represents the exciting story, in which the player as the protagonist was living a peaceful life in his small village together with his father. One day, his life completely changed as the bandits raided his home and abducted his father. The protagonist decides to explore the land to find his missing father and take revenge from the brutal bandits. During the gameplay, the player will explore the massive beautiful country where he discovers lots of people and completes different quests to advance through the storyline. Along the journey, the player can hunt wild animals, gather herbs, and go fishing. Hero of the Kingdom includes core features such as Beautiful Environment, Meet Dozens of People, Gather Resources, Find Hidden items, and more.

Drox Operative is an Action Role-playing, Adventure, Sci-fi themed Single-player and Multiplayer 4X video game developed and published by Soldak Entertainment for multiple platforms. The game offers a starship action gameplay with warring alien species and fierce space battles. It takes place in the stunning galaxy full of planets, asteroids, space stations, moon, and new worlds. The player serves as the protagonist, a spaceship pilot, who must manipulate the galaxy to encounter new worlds, discover new stars, and battle against alien species to earn experience points. During the gameplay, the player can explore the land from a top-down perspective, interact with non-player characters and earn money by trading, defeat enemies, and more. There are several playable factions available each with a set of objectives, upgrades, and ships. The player explores the evolving and dynamic galaxy, take part in the galactic war between various alien races and can destroy hundreds of enemy starships to become the master. Dynamic Galaxy, Monsters, Galactic War, Hundreds of Enemy Starships, Build your Starship, etc. are prominent features in the game.

Tomb Raider: Pistol Silencer is a Downloadable Content Pack for Tomb Raider, developed by Crystal Dynamics and published by Square Enix. The DLC pack introduces the pistol silencer, enabling the female protagonist named as Lara to use stealthy tactics to overcome the complicated situation. The gameplay mainly revolves around Action-Adventure elements and the storyline follows the female protagonist, Lara, who found herself in the mysterious shores of Linux. According to the plot, the player needs to navigate the intense environment and struggle to survive as long as possible to advance through the story. The player is wielded with raw instincts and the player has an ability to push beyond the human endurance’s limits. The player must battle against enemies to reveal the dark history of the abandoned island to flee. During the gameplay, the player needs to salvage resources, upgrade the weapons and tools, and gain experience to survive the hostile inhabitant of the island. Tomb Raider: Pistol Silencer includes prominent features such as New Raiding Experience, Fight to Live, Survive as a Team, and more. Try it out, and you’ll like it.

Shotgun Farmers is an Action, FPS (First-person Shooter), Online Multiplayer, and Team-based video game developed and published by Megastorm Games. The game takes the player in the beautiful environment where the bullets of the player grow the guns. During the gameplay, the player can harvest weapons plants in the online multiplayer shooting game for ammo or allow them to grow for the large clip. In the game, the player must aim carefully, as the missed shot means the player has just gifted his foe with the weapon he is using while competing. Up to 12 players can play the simultaneously where they are capable of growing their ammo. The battle can compete against others with five different vegetable weapons. Using the customization feature, the player changes the appearance of his farmer with unlockable hats and other combinations. The game enables the player to battle around five farms including the Riverside, the Countryside, Roadside, and more. Shotgun Farmers includes prominent features such as Online Multiplayer, Fight using Vegetable Weapons, Customization, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion is an Expansion Pack for the original title FortressCraft Evolved, developed by ProjectorGames for multiple platforms. The expansion pack comes with improved graphics, enhanced mechanics, and smooth controls, as well as bone-freezing environment. The game lets the player to go deeper into the caverns to find out new materials to proceed his technology in the first DLC pack of the game. Within the unforgiving landscapes, the player needs to find new crystals and ores to design his modern weapons, suit upgrades, and his energy machines. In the game, energy is the key to survival and the victory. There are both Single-player and Multiplayer modes available and the player controls the character to fulfill the requirement of each mission. It is the perfect mix of Tower Defense, Voxel Landscapes, Logistics, Assembly Lines, Crafting and Exploration elements. The game starts with the crash landing of the player on the mysterious alien planet, left him with only a small handful machine. With addictive gameplay, brilliant graphics, superb mechanics, FortressCraft Evolved: Frozen Factory Expansion is the brilliant game to play.

FortressCraft Evolved combines the Building, Sandbox, Survival, and Crafting elements developed by ProjectorGames and published by Digital Tribe. The game offers both Single-player and Multiplayer modes, and takes place in the unique voxel-based landscapes and incorporates exploration, combat, crafting and tower-defence components. The game starts with the player crash landing on the strange world of aliens, left with the handful machines. Using the device known as hand-held scanner, the player must locate valuable resources and conveyors to automate the raw material. The player must struggle to explore the world from a first-person perspective, keep an eye on his factory while battling against hordes of aliens with several tiers of energy turrets and missiles. To survive longer, the player must continue to create powerful systems, from jet tribunes to solar energy, and more. During the gameplay, the player can experience the huge worlds and can create a futuristic mining operation comprising of tons of massive machines. FortressCraft Evolved includes prominent features such as Superb build tools, Huge World to Explore, High-tech Machinery, Futuristic Mining, and more. Try it out, and you’ll love it.

Nova Flow is an Action, Platform, First-person Perspective, and Single-player video game developed and published by Wrecked Angle Studios. The game puts the player in the protagonist’s role and comes with a compelling story, in which a mysterious tower appears above the skylines. As the protagonist, the player must struggle to find out the truth before the time runs out. The game is played from a First-person perspective and mainly revolve around speed-running platform elements. To accomplish the missions, the player must keep an eye on his aim, weapons of manipulation, and his instinctive reflexes. The game introduces the simple movement system with complex interaction as the player advance. During the gameplay, the player can run, jump, and shot his way to find further ways to interact with his surrounding environments and challenges that confront him. The player must avoid laser obstacles, strange targets, and challenging gates to reach the end of each level. Forty Challenging Levels, Speedrun Modes, Leaderboards, Pumping Soundtracks, etc. are core features in the game.