The Best Open-world Games

Update : Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land added at rank #1.
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Atelier Yumia: The Alchemist of Memories & the Envisioned Land (2025)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X/s Xbox Series X j PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One Playstation 5

"Atelier Yumia" is a story about “memory”. Explore the field to gather materials and synthesis items. The items you create can be key to advancing the story and can also be used in battles and exploration. Additionally, you can create your own base with “Building" in the field.

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  • japanese
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • jrpg
  • crafting
  • combat
  • exploration
  • battle
  • long-running

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Monster Hunter Wilds (2025)

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PC Windows Xbox Series X/s Xbox One Xbox Series X Playstation 5

The unbridled force of nature runs wild and relentless, with environments transforming drastically from one moment to the next. This is a story of monsters and humans and their struggles to live in harmony in a world of duality.

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  • fight
  • crafting
  • open-world
  • hunting
  • rpg
  • combat
  • cooperative
  • action
  • multiplayer
  • battle
  • dragon
  • narrative
  • long-running
  • online
  • dating-sim

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Aloft (2025)

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early access PC Windows

Soar the skies in Aloft, the co-op sandbox survival game set in a world of floating islands. Build any island into a skyship, your home in the clouds. Find lost knowledge, cure the fungal corruption, and brave the hurricane to restore the ecosystem.

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  • crafting
  • open-world
  • survival
  • building
  • sailing
  • sandbox
  • cooperative
  • colourful
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • naval
  • agriculture
  • base-building
  • simulation
  • farming

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My Summer Car (2025)

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PC Windows

My Summer Car is the ultimate car owning, building, fixing, tuning, maintenance AND permadeath life survival simulator. You start the game with hundreds of loose parts and assemble both car and engine.

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  • auto
  • simulation
  • open-world
  • survival
  • driving
  • drunk-driving
  • building
  • vehicle
  • realistic
  • funny

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Border Town (2024)

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100
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PC Windows

Restore the former glory of Border Town in an open-world sandbox RPG set in a fantastical realm. Explore the world, craft tools and weapons, cultivate fields, and socialise with your neighbours while dealing with dark forces that threaten to destroy everything you have built.

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  • building
  • farming
  • sandbox
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • action-adventure
  • shooter
  • survival
  • top-down
  • old-school
  • first-person
  • cartoony
  • simulation
  • adventure
  • magic

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Heat Death: Survival Train (2024)

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80
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PC Windows

Heat Death is a sci-fi survival game where you can build, upgrade, and customize your battle train to explore and survive a frozen world! This train is not only your shelter and vehicle, but also your weapon and ally to face hostile drones, deadly storms, and hidden mysteries of an unknown world!

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  • crafting
  • survival
  • open-world
  • lore
  • base-building
  • post-apocalyptic
  • building
  • trains
  • transhumanism
  • thread
  • futuristic
  • exploration
  • sandbox

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Infinity Nikki (2024)

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Android Playstation 4 IOS iPhone (IOS iPhone) j IOS iPhone PC Windows Playstation 5

Infinity Nikki is the fifth installment in the beloved Nikki series developed by Infold Games. This cozy open-world game is filled with lovely little wonders to collect. Utilizing the UE5 engine, this multi-platform game offers platforming, puzzle-solving, dress-up and many other gameplay elements to create a unique and rich experience. In this game, Nikki and Momo embark on a new adventure to travel across the fantastical nations of Miraland, each with its own unique culture and environment. Players will encounter many characters and whimsical creatures while collecting stunning outfits of various styles. Some of these outfits possess magical abilities that are crucial for exploration.

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  • open-world
  • platform
  • puzzle
  • crafting
  • exploration
  • -only
  • battle
  • combat
  • dungeon

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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2: Heart of Chornobyl (2024)

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74
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PC Windows Xbox One Xbox Series X

Discover the vast Chornobyl Exclusion Zone full of dangerous enemies, deadly anomalies and powerful artifacts. Unveil your own epic story as you make your way to the Heart of Chornobyl. Make your choices wisely, as they will determine your fate in the end.


  • shooter
  • open-world
  • first-person
  • survival
  • fps
  • survival-horror
  • inventory
  • narrative
  • post-apocalyptic
  • atmospheric
  • exploration
  • military
  • hardcore

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The Matchless KungFu (2024)

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85
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PC Windows

The Matchless Kungfu is an open world sandbox RPG game based on a WuXia background. You can play any martial arts role you imagine in this wild world. Travel through the great wilderness, or be the leader of the group. The most important thing is, build your own story and live the experience!


  • martial
  • arts
  • sandbox
  • strategy
  • rpg
  • open-world
  • crafting
  • turn-based
  • deckbuilder
  • character
  • type
  • base-building
  • survival
  • building
  • funny

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Horizon Zero Dawn Remastered (2024)

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Playstation 5 j PC Windows

Experience the critically acclaimed Horizon Zero Dawn™ with stunning new visuals and upgraded features. In a far future where colossal machines roam the Earth, pockets of humanity survive in unique tribes among the lush, overgrown ruins of our long-lost civilization.

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  • post-apocalyptic
  • open-world
  • fps
  • first-person
  • rpg
  • shooter
  • mech
  • combat
  • stealth
  • third-person
  • realistic
  • artificial
  • intelligence
  • story
  • action-adventure

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