Open-world games are some of the best games on PC — and for good reason. Offering a sense of freedom not found in other genres like shooters or co-op games, these titles manage to keep players entertained years after their initial release. And with the price of upcoming video games continuing to rise, open-world games pose a great value to consumers.
If you happen to play on PC, there is an overwhelming number of open-world games at your disposal. Whether you’re looking for a multiplayer shooter or a single-player game that’ll keep you occupied for more than 100 hours, here are some of the best open-world games on PC.
For you console players out there, we rounded up the best open-world games on PS5, Xbox Series X, and Switch for you, too.
One of the most unique games on this list is the first effort from famed director Hideo Kojima after leaving Konami. Rather than make another stealth action game as he has for decades, we instead got the beautifully weird Death Stranding. This open-world game makes the world itself and your traversal across it the main focus. Each cliff is a boss fight and every river is a deadly hazard. The story is as wild and dramatic as anything else, but so well-acted that you can buy every bit of lore it drops on you. It is a strangely therapeutic game once you settle in and meet it on its own terms, but never boring. You will never look at a delivery person the same after a few hours with this game, and hopefully, the sequel Death Stranding 2 manages to be just as innovative.
The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.