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Best open world games to play right now and completely forget real life exists
October 2, 2025 - Get lost in the best open world games to play now, from Cyberpunk 2077 to Red Dead Redemption
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Between Borderlands 4 and Dying Light: The Beast, I'm spoilt for choice in terms of the best open world games this month
November 9, 2022 - RDR2 is rife with detail, overstuffed with little touches: animal corpses persist and decay, the protagonist Arthur has commentary for nearly every location and character, and random world events make the world feel lived in, be it sucking on a man's snakebite wound or getting ambushed by hillbillies. It's all layered into an excellent story that'll take you as long as the complete Deadwood series to get through, and that's if you're rushing. And on top of it all, Red Dead Online brings a Day Z adjacent quality to the open world, invoking everything from serious roleplay to ridiculous, surreal shenanigans.
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Top 10 New Open World Games Of 2020 - Gameranx
November 13, 2020 - Being an MMORPG you can expect plenty of content to go through on top of places to search out. There are several different territories each with settlements and forts. While the game doesn’t feature a subscription payment service for players to keep up with, there is a one-time purchase to unlock the standard base game. ... Category: FeaturesTag: 2020 Featured, Google Stadia, Nintendo Switch, Open World RPG, Open World RPG 2020, Open World Video Games 2020, PC, PlayStation 4, top upcoming open world games, Top Upcoming Open World Games 2020, Xbox One
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Best PC Open World Games of 2020 - OpenCritic
Browse the top rated Open World games of 2020 on PC. The top critics in gaming. All in one place.
Glitchwave
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Best open world video games of the 2020s - Glitchwave video games database
2020 · turn-based RPG open world crime comedy JRPG voice acting third-person turn-based quick time event party-based minigames · 9 · 9 · 3.98 · 171 ratings · Caves of Qud · 2024 · traditional roguelike open world fantasy science fiction ...
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10 Best Open World Games of the 2020s (So Far), Ranked
April 20, 2025 - Some of the best open-world games of all time have been released in the 2020s, like Spider-Man 2 and Ghost of Tsushima.
TechRadar
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Best open world games on PC today: get out and explore | TechRadar
July 31, 2023 - Far Cry 5 might just be the archetype of what the best open world games on PC should be in 2020. This game is distinctive in the fact that it lets you to truly go anywhere on the map – not to mention, do anything.
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Best Open-World Games To Explore In 2025 - GameSpot
November 18, 2025 - ... Cyberpunk 2077 may have had a rough launch back in 2020, but the first-person RPG has become one of the best open-world games thanks to updates and the spectacular Phantom Liberty expansion.
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10 Best Open World Games Released in 2020
May 7, 2025 - While some fans were initially worried about the change in direction, Like a Dragon's rich open world, quirky characters, and elaborate selection of minigames made them feel right at home.
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Best open-world games 2025: exploring magical worlds
3 weeks ago - Arguably one of the greatest open-world games of all time, Oblivion Remastered takes a true classic and gives it a new coat of paint. It's one of the most immersive RPGs of all time, filled to the brim with incredibly quotable story beats and ...
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50 Incredible Open World Games: Your Favorite Open World RPGs.
September 23, 2025 - The top 50 open world games. These games are all about living, breathing interactive worlds. These are the titles that made the cut
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25 Immersive Open World Games To Explore
July 9, 2025 - Arguably the best Batman game, Arkham City is the perfect open world playground for the caped crusader and his fans. Run around as the Bat and take out bad guys with some of the most satisfying combat ever, which has been mimicked many times since Rocksteady perfected it in this 2011 title, but never bettered. ... Sucker Punch’s 2020 open world samurai game is a rare open world game that doesn’t try to do everything under the sun.
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10 Best Open-World Games Since 2020 You Can Get Lost In
August 31, 2024 - The game also gives the player the freedom of picking and choosing their skills and customizing their character as they progress through the intricately designed open-world experience. Like · Follow · Followed · Action · Adventure · Systems · OpenCritic Reviews · Top Critic Avg: 84/100 Critics Rec: 88% Released · July 17, 2020 ·
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r/ShouldIbuythisgame on Reddit: Any good story/open-world games you would recommend?
December 2, 2023 -
I just want some game to chill, take it slower, just experience the world and story. What would you recommend?
I have played:
Witcher 3
RDR2
Basically every AC game
Most Far Cry games
Metro games
Alan Wake 2
Many more other games I can't remember of the top of my head, but I'll gladly take your suggestions.
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Definitely Cyberpunk 2077. Fantastic world, fantastic story. If you have a strong enough PC, you can enable path tracing and make it very possibly the best looking open world game to date (still looks great without path tracing too) Have to bring up Elden Ring as well. Hands down the best open world game I've ever played. As for whether it's a "chill experience".... that'll definitely vary from person to person haha. Personally, I find myself getting into a flow with the FromSoftware games which can be quite satisfying and relaxing. If it's your first Souls game, it may be stressful at first until you learn it. But also, of you want to take a game slowly, this may be a great candidate because slowly is the best way to learn a game like this. But really it's the gorgeous world and incredible environmental storytelling that pulls me into that game. The story can be like a puzzle, but I personally find that really engaging. There was no story I thought about more last year than Elden Ring's. When I wasn't playing the game, I was watching lore videos lol. Such a fantastic experience, and as I said, the best open world I've ever played.
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Idk how I haven’t seen either of these yet: ghost of Tsushima and horizon series. Both 10/10 with awesome combat, story, graphics, crafting, map, everything.
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15 Must-Play Open-World RPGs of 2025 – Your Next Epic Adventure Awaits
September 17, 2025 - ... I personally felt like Cyberpunk 2077 was rushed when it was initially released in 2020, but after the patches, the game has definitely become one of the most immersive open-world RPGs ever made.
Steam 250
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Top Open World Games on Steam – Steam 250
Top 150 best Steam games of all time tagged with Open World, according to gamer reviews.
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r/ShouldIbuythisgame on Reddit: Best open world games?
August 17, 2025 -
Looking for an open world game! I primarily play RPGs and I really want to get immersed in something new. I’ve seen Elden Ring recommended a bunch but before I started that I wanted to see if anyone had some other recs.
Some games I’ve really enjoyed are AC Odyssey & Valhalla, the Horizon series, Hogwarts Legacy, Zelda: TOTK, Arkham Knight, and Star Wars Outlaws.
Thanks!
Edit: I’m so grateful for all of the responses! I’m definitely not short on games now. I look forward to playing these :) Thanks everyone
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Satisfactory - it’s open world mining on an alien planet, I’ve quite enjoyed it so far.
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10 Open-World Games That Could Already Be Better Than GTA 6
November 20, 2025 - If there's one thing Obsidian knows how to do, it's create open worlds impossible not to be deeply immersed in, thanks to their ability to make everything feel natural, and Fallout: New Vegas is a prime example.
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20 Awesome Open-World Games Currently In Development (And 10 Possibilities)
November 3, 2018 - Ghosts Of Tsushima is set in a massive open world full of interesting side quests and allows you to stealthily take out your enemies or engage in massive battles in the open. The game will even allow you to switch from English to Japanese audio to keep things as authentic as possible, making it one of my most anticipated releases of 2019. ... Bethesda’s first RPG in over 25 years, Starfield is shaping up an epic space adventure on a grand scale like we’ve never seen before. Having been in development for over a decade the game is finally set to see the light of day next year, or possibly 2020 if things don't go to plan.
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The best open world games to play in 2025 | VG247
October 24, 2024 - Released: 2020 · Developer: Sucker Punch Productions · Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 · Sucker Punch Productions' Ghost of Tsushima features one of the most beautiful open worlds that there is.