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These are the best Exploration games on Steam, as voted by our community.

Nobody wrote a review to land on this list. Players duelled Exploration games out of their own libraries against each other, and a game's percentage is the share of a typical library it beats — so the top of this ranking is what Exploration fans genuinely keep coming back to.

METAL GEAR SOLID 3: Snake Eater - Master Collection Version

percentile across every personal ranking, weighed by the crowd behind it

DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH beats 99%

Cyberpunk 2077 beats 80%

DARK SOULS™ III beats 80%

Hollow Knight: Silksong beats 80%

The Vanishing of Ethan Carter beats 96%

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 beats 80%

Subnautica 2 beats 82%

Terraria beats 77%

Crimson Desert beats 83%

ZERO Sievert beats 93%

DARK SOULS™ II beats 88%

No Man's Sky beats 78%

Hollow Knight beats 77%

SILENT HILL 2 beats 88%

The Stanley Parable beats 80%

DREDGE beats 81%

Forza Horizon 6 beats 80%

Haiku, the Robot beats 86%

DEATH STRANDING DIRECTOR'S CUT beats 78%

Disco Elysium - The Final Cut beats 75%

Subnautica beats 75%

Subnautica: Below Zero beats 78%

REANIMAL beats 87%

Monster Hunter: World beats 74%

What Remains of Edith Finch beats 83%

Anno 1800 beats 80%

Risen beats 78%

Ori and the Will of the Wisps beats 77%

DEATH STRANDING beats 80%

DARK SOULS™: REMASTERED beats 73%

ASTRONEER beats 73%

V Rising beats 76%

Outer Wilds beats 77%

Metro Exodus beats 74%

Haste beats 78%

Don't Starve beats 72%

DARK SOULS™: Prepare To Die™ Edition beats 74%

No Rest for the Wicked beats 76%

Marvel’s Spider-Man: Miles Morales beats 75%

Layers of Fear (2016) beats 74%

Mirror's Edge™ beats 72%

Jotun: Valhalla Edition beats 82%

A Hat in Time beats 77%

Wall World beats 75%

Assassin's Creed® Odyssey beats 73%

Blue Prince beats 76%

Burnout Paradise: The Ultimate Box beats 78%

Outward Definitive Edition beats 76%

Monster Hunter Stories beats 87%

You Have to Win the Game beats 80%

Far Cry® 2 beats 74%

Far Cry® 6 beats 80%

TerraTech beats 85%

Gothic 1 Remake beats 75%

Maneater beats 76%

The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim VR beats 76%

Lightyear Frontier beats 76%

Hogwarts Legacy beats 69%

Sid Meier's Civilization®: Beyond Earth™ beats 74%

LEGO® City Undercover beats 78%

MISERY beats 78%

Kingdom: New Lands beats 73%

METAL GEAR SOLID - Master Collection Version beats 83%

The Elder Scrolls® Online beats 69%

Scanner Sombre beats 74%

The Forgotten City beats 77%

Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition beats 68%

Viewfinder beats 82%

ENA: Dream BBQ beats 68%

007 First Light beats 81%

Dune: Awakening beats 81%

Conan Exiles Enhanced beats 71%

Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon beats 73%

Backrooms: Escape Together beats 70%

The Stanley Parable: Ultra Deluxe beats 70%

Wartales beats 79%

The Coffin of Andy and Leyley beats 74%

A Short Hike beats 78%

METAL GEAR SOLID 2: Sons of Liberty - Master Collection Version beats 78%

Amanda the Adventurer beats 71%

We Were Here Forever beats 78%

Fallout 2: A Post Nuclear Role Playing Game beats 69%

Cassette Beasts beats 72%

Different Strokes beats 76%

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl beats 70%

The Witness beats 68%

Sea of Thieves: 2026 Edition beats 65%

Divinity: Original Sin 2 - Definitive Edition beats 64%

Truberbrook / Trüberbrook beats 75%

Voidling Bound beats 74%

Lies of P beats 63%

Anno 117: Pax Romana beats 73%

Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning™ beats 66%

Gamble With Your Friends beats 63%

METAL GEAR SOLID: MASTER COLLECTION Vol.1 BONUS CONTENT beats 72%

STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™ beats 63%

Dark Hours: Prologue beats 71%

Elite Dangerous beats 63%

R.E.P.O. beats 61%

Horizon Forbidden West™ Complete Edition beats 67%

Just Cause 2 beats 62%

Amenti beats 70%

7 Days to Die beats 62%

Deep Rock Galactic beats 60%

Reventure beats 63%

SteamWorld Dig 2 beats 64%

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered beats 63%

SUNLESS SEA beats 68%

Uncrashed : FPV Drone Simulator beats 68%

Curse of the Dead Gods beats 68%

Journey To The Savage Planet beats 68%

Out of Ore beats 67%

Fallout: New Vegas beats 60%

GRIME beats 63%

Bootstrap Island beats 67%

Fallout 76 beats 60%

Horizon Zero Dawn™ Complete Edition beats 60%

Leaf Blower Revolution - Idle Game beats 60%

Lords of the Fallen beats 60%

60 Seconds! Reatomized beats 60%

Cat Goes Fishing beats 62%

Darkwood beats 61%

Two Worlds II HD beats 63%

We Were Here beats 58%

Niche - a genetics survival game beats 65%

OneShot beats 61%

Pacify beats 65%

Cairn beats 64%

DAVE THE DIVER beats 58%

Green Hell beats 58%

Satisfactory beats 57%

Aviassembly beats 63%

Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach beats 61%

Stuck In Time beats 63%

Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy beats 59%

Abiotic Factor beats 59%

Ziggurat beats 62%

Manifold Garden beats 60%

UNBEATABLE [white label] beats 61%

Dodgy Deliveries beats 59%

Road 96 🛣️ beats 58%

Marvel’s Spider-Man Remastered beats 56%

Sons Of The Forest beats 56%

SteamWorld Dig beats 57%

Fallout 4 beats 55%

WUCHANG: Fallen Feathers beats 60%

POPGOES Arcade beats 60%

Hamster Hunter beats 56%

Wuthering Waves beats 55%

Dead In Bermuda beats 59%

Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs beats 59%

Torchlight beats 57%

Anno 1404 - History Edition beats 58%

Dying Light: The Beast beats 56%

ArcheAge beats 56%

The Planet Crafter beats 55%

Easy Delivery Co. beats 57%

Core Keeper beats 54%

Guacamelee! Gold Edition beats 55%

Kathy Rain: Director's Cut beats 57%

Ylands beats 56%

Tomb Raider Game of the Year beats 54%

Death's Door beats 55%

The Forest beats 53%

ENDLESS Space™ - Definitive Edition beats 55%

Just Cause™ 3 beats 53%

SPORE™ Creepy & Cute Parts Pack beats 56%

The Plan beats 55%

FUMES beats 55%

The Gunk beats 55%

Baldi's Basics Classic Remastered beats 54%

Forager beats 53%

ICARUS beats 55%

Enshrouded beats 53%

Jalopy beats 54%

Hyper Light Drifter beats 53%

Slime Rancher beats 52%

Bully: Scholarship Edition beats 53%

The Talos Principle beats 54%

RAGE 2 beats 54%

Jazzpunk: Director's Cut beats 54%

Tomb Raider: Legend beats 54%

Tales of Escape beats 53%

STAR WARS™ Knights of the Old Republic™ beats 52%

We Happy Few beats 53%

SPORE™ Galactic Adventures beats 52%

The Complex: Found Footage beats 52%

In Sound Mind beats 52%

Shadow of the Tomb Raider: Definitive Edition beats 52%

Pillars of Eternity beats 52%

LEGO® Worlds beats 52%

Sky: Children of the Light beats 52%

A Game About Digging A Hole™ beats 52%

Liftoff®: FPV Drone Racing beats 52%

Firewatch beats 51%

THE LONGING beats 52%

SPORE™ beats 51%

Dawnlands beats 51%

Gato Roboto beats 51%

Cloud Climber beats 51%

Risen 2: Dark Waters beats 51%

Song of Nunu: A League of Legends Story beats 51%

The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind® Game of the Year Edition beats 50%

OMORI beats 50%

SCP: Secret Files beats 50%

Euro Truck Simulator 2 beats 50%

Offworld Trading Company beats 50%

STAR WARS Jedi: Survivor™ beats 50%

Grow Home beats 49%

We Need To Go Deeper beats 49%

Yume Nikki beats 49%

Stray beats 49%

Fallout 3 beats 48%

The Room 4: Old Sins beats 48%

The Survivalists beats 47%

The Entropy Centre beats 47%

The Talos Principle 2 beats 47%

Valheim beats 48%

Legend of Grimrock 2 beats 47%

Curious Expedition beats 46%

Drive Beyond Horizons beats 47%

Unplagued beats 46%

Kerbal Space Program beats 48%

Portal Knights beats 46%

METAL GEAR & METAL GEAR 2: Solid Snake beats 46%

Nocturnal beats 46%

CarX Street beats 45%

Far Cry® Primal beats 47%

Kill It With Fire: HEATWAVE beats 45%

A Plague Tale: Requiem beats 44%

Her Story beats 44%

The Looker beats 46%

FPV SkyDive : FPV Drone Simulator beats 45%

Space Pirates and Zombies beats 43%

Steelrising beats 45%

ANIMAL WELL beats 45%

La-Mulana beats 43%

Superliminal beats 45%

The Exit 8 beats 42%

Secret World Legends beats 42%

Antichamber beats 42%

Cosmoteer: Starship Architect & Commander beats 43%

Hacker Evolution beats 43%

Chained Together beats 45%

Minecraft Dungeons beats 44%

Palia beats 44%

Gamedec - Definitive Edition beats 41%

Kill It With Fire: Ignition beats 41%

RV There Yet? beats 45%

Moonlighter beats 43%

FAR: Lone Sails beats 40%

Grounded beats 43%

Escape From Duckov beats 42%

Spiritfarer®: Farewell Edition beats 42%

Dragon's Dogma: Dark Arisen beats 43%

Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden beats 38%

SLUDGE LIFE beats 41%

Night in the Woods beats 38%

Amnesia: The Dark Descent beats 42%

Lethal Company beats 43%

Mad Max beats 42%

The Sinking City Remastered beats 37%

Starfield beats 41%

ALTF4 beats 37%

Escape the Backrooms beats 42%

Windrose beats 36%

SILENT HILL f beats 40%

Rain World beats 42%

Stacking beats 38%

The Surge beats 35%

Everybody's Gone to the Rapture beats 35%

The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion® Game of the Year Edition (2009) beats 41%

Necesse beats 39%

Carry The Glass beats 37%

Strange Horticulture beats 35%

Volcanoids beats 35%

Look Outside beats 37%

Minit beats 34%

The House of Da Vinci beats 37%

Will To Live Online beats 39%

GeoGuessr Steam Edition beats 40%

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night beats 37%

The Long Dark beats 39%

StarRupture beats 33%

Yooka-Laylee beats 35%

Chants of Sennaar beats 37%

Blue Fire beats 34%

IMMORTALITY beats 31%

Pentiment beats 30%

Unsolved Case beats 35%

Black Desert beats 39%

Far Cry® 5 beats 38%

Just Cause 2: Multiplayer Mod beats 29%

SUCCUBUS beats 32%

Tell Me Why beats 32%

The Mortuary Assistant beats 32%

Dust: An Elysian Tail beats 34%

Moon Hunters beats 27%

Praey for the Gods beats 27%

VVVVVV beats 33%

The Silver Case beats 26%

Tribes of Midgard beats 30%

Evoland Legendary Edition beats 26%

An Ankou beats 29%

The Outer Worlds beats 31%

Cube World beats 29%

Eden Rising beats 25%

Throne and Liberty beats 35%

Assassin's Creed™: Director's Cut Edition beats 33%

Evergarden beats 24%

Nuclear Nightmare beats 28%

The Cycle: Frontier beats 32%

Assassin's Creed® Origins beats 34%

EVE Online beats 34%

Kholat beats 30%

The Lord of the Rings Online™ beats 31%

Sid Meier's Civilization® III Complete beats 27%

Starseed Pilgrim beats 22%

Fallout 3: Game of the Year Edition beats 32%

Google Earth VR beats 21%

Just Survive beats 29%

Escape Room - Der kranke Kollege beats 32%

Snake Pass beats 26%

God of War beats 32%

Fears to Fathom - Home Alone beats 28%

Spaceflight Simulator beats 25%

AdventureQuest 3D beats 20%

SnowRunner beats 24%

MudRunner beats 27%

Kingdom Eighties beats 18%

We Were Here Together beats 27%

Sins of a Solar Empire®: Rebellion beats 23%

60 Seconds! beats 25%

Turnip Boy Commits Tax Evasion beats 22%

Dome Keeper beats 29%

Forza Horizon 5 beats 29%

Rise of the Tomb Raider™ beats 30%

Pacific Drive beats 21%

Thief Simulator 2: Prologue beats 14%

Starbound beats 29%

Duskers beats 13%

Gold Mining Simulator beats 19%

Creativerse beats 28%

BLACKTAIL beats 13%

The Flame in the Flood beats 26%

Beacon Pines beats 12%

Assassin's Creed Valhalla beats 22%

Supraland beats 17%

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™ beats 16%

Assassin’s Creed® IV Black Flag™ beats 24%

American Truck Simulator beats 21%

The Alters beats 7%

The Planet Crafter: Prologue beats 6%

Content Warning beats 25%

Stranded Deep beats 15%

Ghostwire: Tokyo beats 14%

The Long Drive beats 17%

Stellaris beats 21%

Forza Horizon 4 beats 14%

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