The Best Exploration Games

Update : POLLEN added at rank #1.
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POLLEN (2025)

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early access Android PC Windows

Pollen is a hardcore escape-the-maze game where every move counts. Find keys, unlock doors, and outsmart relentless guardians hunting you down. Strategically place your Respawn Totem save your position in the level., but one misstep can send you back to the start.


  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • psychedelic
  • souls
  • sci-fi
  • walking-simulator
  • science
  • first-person
  • horror
  • stealth
  • dark
  • stylized
  • futuristic
  • supernatural
  • adventure

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Stranded Island (2024)

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PC Windows Android

a gripping 6-player survival horror game where reality twists and nightmares come alive. Trapped on a mysterious island, evade an unseen killer and light fire camps for safety. Explore breathtaking landscapes, manage resources, and outsmart a force that bends your reality. Will you escape?


  • survival
  • stylized
  • action-adventure
  • exploration
  • first-person
  • post-apocalyptic
  • horror
  • open-world
  • multiple-endings
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • adventure
  • choices
  • rpg
  • zombies

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Ribbet (2024)

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early access PC Windows

Join Ribbet, the young and mischievous frog, on an exciting adventure in this action-packed video game! Take on the role of Ribbet as you navigate through a myriad of challenging hazards and obstacles. With his small stature and incredible parkour skills, he can escape from any sticky situation.

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  • casual
  • cartoony
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • stylized
  • family-friendly
  • colourful
  • platform
  • action
  • cute
  • funny
  • controller-support
  • physics
  • arcade

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Completely Stretchy (2024)

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PC Windows

A befuddling mishap has made you COMPLETELY STRETCHY! Stretch, swing and stick around the delightfully odd and vibrant Grombi Isles in this eccentric and light-hearted 3D platformer.

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  • parkour
  • 3d
  • exploration
  • platform
  • funny
  • immersive
  • surreal
  • open-world
  • abstract
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • stylized
  • colourful
  • relaxing
  • wall-crawler

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Cave Hikers (2024)

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PC Windows

Cave Hikers is a relaxing and humorous 2D interactive cartoon mockumentary that follows three characters through a cavernous world, on a quest to find the mystical “cave with an infinite ceiling”.

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  • underground
  • relaxing
  • surreal
  • point-and-click
  • wholesome
  • exploration
  • comedy
  • cute
  • nature
  • fantasy
  • 2d
  • colourful
  • hand-drawn
  • story
  • hidden-object

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Lego Horizon Adventures (2024)

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Nintendo Switch j PC Windows Playstation 5

Join machine hunter Aloy as she leads a colourful crew of heroes on a quest to save the world and learn the secrets of her past. Dive into boundless adventure, customize to your heart’s content, and take on action-packed battles solo or with friends.

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  • cooperative
  • combat
  • exploration
  • dinosaurs
  • isometric
  • customization
  • level
  • battle
  • arena
  • light-hearted
  • moment-to-moment
  • open-world
  • robots
  • narrative
  • adventure

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Caravan Sandwitch (2024)

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Playstation 5 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

Embark on a journey across vast landscapes in Caravan SandWitch, a captivating narrative-driven exploration adventure.

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  • exploration
  • 3d
  • post-apocalyptic
  • metroidvania
  • driving
  • fiction
  • 1980s
  • colourful
  • stylized
  • third-person
  • mystery
  • robots
  • futuristic
  • action-adventure
  • interactive

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Yars Rising (2024)

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Playstation 5 Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Nintendo Switch

From the renowned development studio WayForward Technologies, Inc. (Shantae, River City Girls, Advance Wars 1+2: Re-Boot Camp) comes Yars Rising, a 2D action adventure exploration of one of Atari’s richest, and best known classic titles.

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  • platform
  • 2d
  • action-adventure
  • metroidvania
  • anime
  • exploration
  • sci-fi
  • shooter
  • classic
  • scroller
  • cyberpunk
  • stealth
  • 2.5d
  • comic
  • retro

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Paper Plane Arena - A Medieval Fantasy (2024)

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Xbox One PC Windows

Paper Plane Arena is an interactive game experience that is designed to ease your mind and have fun popping innocent balloons. You jump into the role of a little paper plane that is supposed to rescue the world from little but evil balloon demons by dashing through them.

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  • family-friendly
  • casual
  • relaxing
  • exploration
  • well-written
  • meditative
  • flight
  • futuristic
  • atmospheric
  • simulation
  • colourful
  • single-player
  • discovery
  • 3d
  • linear

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STARDROP (2024)

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Mac OS PC Windows

Gumdrop was peacefully sleeping in their asteroid when a mysterious force smashed it to pieces above the orbit of a nearby planet. Venture through a whimsical world to collect all the lost star droplets, slivers, and shards in this 3D platformer collectathon.


  • 3d
  • space
  • casual
  • collectathon
  • exploration
  • mystery
  • sci-fi
  • funny
  • first-person
  • platform
  • story
  • adventure
  • atmospheric
  • lore
  • walking-simulator

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