The best open-world games on PC
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Jon Bitner and Jesse Lennox Updated January 29, 2025 |
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.
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