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The best open world games

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Flash
Flash Original post #1
Mar 25, 2017 at 7:58 AM
We're in a golden age of open world games, sprawling sandboxes where player choice rules above all else. Sure, there are stories, quests, missions, and goals, but players are free to complete them at their own pace. From fantasy realms to simulated galaxies, from modern cities to post-apocalyptic wastelands, the best open world games give players the freedom to choose their own path—to do what they want, when they want—and provide an interesting and rewarding setting for their self-guided adventures.

Here are the best open world games on PC.


  • Forza Horizon 3
  • Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
  • Grand Theft Auto 5
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • Elite: Dangerous
  • Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
  • The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
  • Metal Gear Solid 5
  • Starbound
  • Just Cause 2
  • Mad Max
  • Saints Row 4
  • Westerado: Double Barreled
  • Fallout 4
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Sunless Sea
  • Far Cry 4
  • Minecraft
  • Mount & Blade: Warband

Source: The best open world games | PC Game
gameranand
Mar 25, 2017 at 9:31 AM
There are so many games that comes to my mind when we talk about Open World games which are unfortunately not in the list mainly because no one wnts to make the list too damn long. But fortunately here we have that privilege because we are not writing an article.

1. Saints Row Series
2. Need For Speed (Some of them)
3. Borderlands Series
4. Batman Series
5. Burnout Paradise
6. Brutal Legend (Old but good game)
7. Metal Gear Solid Phantom Pain
8. Darksiders series
9. Dead Island Series
10. Homefront Revolution
11. Rage
12. Red faction Series
13. Sleeping Dogs
14. Starpoint Gemini 2

And many more. I have tried to exclude RPGs from this list simply because most of them are RPG and adding them would be preaching to choir. No use, most of us already know that they are RPG like Dragon Age series, Dark Souls series, Shadowrun series and the likes.
ariftwister
Mar 25, 2017 at 11:31 AM
Bully
Watch Dogs
LA Noire
axes2t2
axes2t2 #4
Mar 25, 2017 at 3:55 PM
You have mentioned Fallout 4 but not Fallout 3 and New Vegas, also Fallout 1 & 2.

Anyone played Gothic 2 ??

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Also GTA III, IV, Vice City and San Andreas.
bssunilreddy
Mar 25, 2017 at 4:21 PM
There are many games in sequels or series like...


  • Forza Horizon Series
  • Need for Speed Series
  • Stalker Series
  • Grand Theft Auto Series
  • The Witcher Series
  • Assassin's Creed Series
  • The Elder Scrolls Series
  • Metal Gear Solid Series
  • Just Cause Series
  • Mad Max Series
  • Saints Row Series
  • Fallout Series
  • Far Cry Series
  • C&C Generals Series

And many more that I missed...

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topgear
topgear #6
Apr 4, 2017 at 11:46 AM
Watch Dogs 2
Zangetsu
Apr 4, 2017 at 1:27 PM
Final Fantasy Series
B
Oct 27, 2017 at 12:12 AM
No offence to anyone but I didn't like mad max at all. The movie series is good though.
Any other open world games which are not fps?
strawhatsai
Dec 10, 2017 at 5:55 PM
We're in a golden age of open world games, sprawling sandboxes where player choice rules above all else. Sure, there are stories, quests, missions, and goals, but players are free to complete them at their own pace. From fantasy realms to simulated galaxies, from modern cities to post-apocalyptic wastelands, the best open world games give players the freedom to choose their own path—to do what they want, when they want—and provide an interesting and rewarding setting for their self-guided adventures.

Here are the best open world games on PC.


  • Forza Horizon 3
  • Stalker: Shadow of Chernobyl
  • Grand Theft Auto 5
  • The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
  • Elite: Dangerous
  • Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag
  • The Elder Scrolls 3: Morrowind
  • Metal Gear Solid 5
  • Starbound
  • Just Cause 2
  • Mad Max
  • Saints Row 4
  • Westerado: Double Barreled
  • Fallout 4
  • Dwarf Fortress
  • Sunless Sea
  • Far Cry 4
  • Minecraft
  • Mount & Blade: Warband

Source: The best open world games | PC Game
also sleeping dogs and
witcher 2
Nerevarine
Dec 29, 2017 at 12:25 AM
While not a true open world game, Deus Ex is very very good.
The first one and HR/Mankind Divided. We do not talk about the game in between :p
chimera201
Dec 29, 2017 at 5:53 PM
While not a true open world game, Deus Ex is very very good.
The first one and HR/Mankind Divided. We do not talk about the game in between :p

I played THAT game recently and was shocked to see that the Liberty Island map that was just one map in the original Deus Ex was divided into 2 maps with even less area in each. True console game.