Like a literal, pleasant, long walk kinda like a journey like Shrek?
- Minecraft
- Skyrim
- Zelda (botw totk)
- Kingdom Come Deliverance 1,2
- Cyberpunk2077
- Red Dead Redemption
- Pokemon Sword/Shield/Scarlet/Arceus
EDIT: DayDreamGaming on Youtube seems to have a gold mine of these type videos
Subnautica, but only in Creative Mode.
Lovely and terrifying all at once. Can’t wait for the new one!
As you specifically mention Minecraft: check out Valheim. In default settings you can hardly call it a pleasant stroll, but exploring the biomes is beautiful with especially stunning lighting.
It can be made significantly more pleasant by bringing a couple of, uh, >!hunting dogs!< (is redacting called for?).
Rustle in the bush? >!Dogs!< run off. Snarls, rending noises. Piece and quiet. 😅
I haven’t even explored all the biomes but I’m quite content in my little homestead by the lake.
I’ve seen someone do that in Skyrim, but haven’t done it myself.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 1/2. I just picked up 2 a few weeks ago and imo it is one of the best games ever made
There’s a short and sweet Zeldalike called Night Stones.
- A Highland Song. I can confirm that this one is nice to take a walk through because it is a game about running through a fictionalised version of a place I frequently enjoy walking through in real life. Possibly stretching the definition of open world a little, but the gameplay is about navigation
- Shadow of the Colossus. Which is good because you do spend a lot of time walking across it.
Also, not an open world game at all, but the environments in Pacer are amazing. You barely get a chance to look at them because you’re zooming along a racetrack at 400 mph, but they’re still there. Sonashahar is a futuristic neoclassical Indian city, and I want to explore that
Guild wars 2, large world, lots of variety in scenery.
Also can try stuff where that’s the point like Wildmender is about healing the land and chill, or eastshade. Which is just about enjoying the scenery.
I have high hopes for Light No Fire.
Right now I find Cyberpunk 2077 surprisingly pleasant to wander around in. Sure it’s dangerous, but when you’re so chromed to the gills you can shake off a high speed collision there isn’t much threat.
World of Warcraft
Rain World
Two Worlds (if you can emulate 360)
If you have Minecraft try Sildur’s Shaders with a texture pack of your choice
Caves of Qud
Metroid Prime Series (I dont think that counts as open world but damn it felt like exploration)
Star Fox Adventure (GameCube emulation)
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Draken and the Ancient Gates is also a ps2 game thats like half open world but it was so cool.
The original Earth Defense Force felt open world to my child mind.
Voxel Libre is like Minecraft
Theres a ton I’m not pulling off the top of my head but check itch.io for the voxel games as there are a ton of interesting Minecraft clones.
A Short Hike
It’s a cute indy game about reaching the top of a mountain (no, not a Celeste clone i swear)
A Short Hike is the best answer to this question. I’m sad that we haven’t had a release of “Another Short Hike” yet.
I don’t remember if it is in fact open world, but a game for just chill and take a long walk from start to finish is Firewatch
As the game Raft is fun, fairly simple, huge, good for playing with friends or kids with out a ton of experience playing games, it’s got a decent story. Spent last summer beating it with my daughter and we both really liked it
Did you extend a single board hundreds of meters from your raft so you could clip into buildings?
lol wth, no we definitely did not! We did end up with a floating village essentially, and it was so good to spend so much quality time with her and problem and chatting all summer 💜 Raft has a special place in my heart lol
Journey.
Abzu.
Planet Crafter.
Satisfactory.
I personally think it’d be cool to walk out on any of the fields in Rocket LeagueGosh there’s so many though. Almost every game, haha.
I would prefer RL in real life.
Take out all the people and creatures trying to kill you along the way and I feel like a walk down the intended route from Goodsprings to New Vegas would be fun enough and fairly pleasant. Otherwise, it’s a survival game nightmare I wouldn’t win, no matter how you slice it.
And if you’d consider Yooka-Laylee open world, the full first book you enter would be fun to stroll all over in for a short while. Especially since the majority of the enemies look like little pushovers.
