🏆 Best Indie × Exploration games
There are 19 games with both "Indie" and "Exploration" elements. Here are the 19 most worth playing, ranked by Steam positive rate, player ratings, and popularity.
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DREDGE
· Overwhelmingly Positive 96% · 2023AdventureHorrorDREDGE is a single-player fishing adventure with a sinister undercurrent. Sell your catch, upgrade y…
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Chants of Sennaar
· Overwhelmingly Positive 98% · 2023Puzzle AdventurePuzzleIn this award-winning puzzle adventure game, play as the Traveler on a quest to reunite the Peoples …
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A Short Hike
· Overwhelmingly Positive 99% · 2019AdventureCasualOpen WorldHike, climb, and soar through the peaceful mountainside landscapes of Hawk Peak Provincial Park as y…
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ANIMAL WELL
· Overwhelmingly Positive 96% · 2024MetroidvaniaPuzzle AdventureExplore a dense, interconnected labyrinth, and unravel its many secrets. Collect items to manipulate…
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Tunic
· Very Positive 91% · 2022Action-AdventurePuzzle AdventureExplore a land filled with lost legends, ancient powers, and ferocious monsters in TUNIC, an isometr…
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Supraland
· Overwhelmingly Positive 95% · 2019Puzzle AdventureFPSMetroidvaniaTry the demo! A mix between Portal, Zelda and Metroid. Exploration, puzzles, terrible combat, secret…
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Blue Prince
· Very Positive 86% · 2025Puzzle AdventurePuzzleRogueliteWelcome to Mt. Holly, where every dawn unveils a new mystery. Navigate through shifting corridors an…
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The Witness
· Very Positive 84% · 2016PuzzlePuzzle AdventureOpen WorldYou wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
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Gone Home
· Mostly Positive 77% · 2013NarrativeAdventureJune 7th, 1995. 1:15 AM. You arrive home after a year abroad. You expect your family to greet you, b…
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Luma Island
· Very Positive 84% · 2024Farming SimCo-opLife SimGet ready to explore, farm, fish, mine, craft, and raise magical Lumas as you solve puzzles and emba…
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Sunless Sea
· Very Positive 83% · 2015RoguelikeNarrativeAdventureLOSE YOUR MIND. EAT YOUR CREW. DIE. Take the helm of your steamship and set sail for the unknown! Su…
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Sable
· Very Positive 86% · 2021AdventureOpen WorldEmbark on an unique and unforgettable journey and guide Sable through her Gliding; a rite of passage…
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Sludge Life
· Very Positive 91% · 2020AdventureOpen WorldSLUDGE LIFE is a first-person / open-world / vandalism-centric stroll through a polluted island full…
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Hob
· Very Positive 88% · 2017Action-AdventurePuzzleTransform the world of Hob! A new action-adventure from Runic Games, the award-winning studio behind…
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Lifeless Planet
· Mostly Positive 77% · 2014AdventurePlatformerPREMIER EDITION - While seeking life on a distant planet, an astronaut discovers an abandoned Russia…
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Aquaria
· Very Positive 88% · 2007MetroidvaniaAction-AdventureAquaria is an award-winning action-adventure game set in a massive underwater world teeming with lif…
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Tchia
· Very Positive 87% · 2023Action-AdventureAdventureOpen WorldA Tropical Open-World adventure. Climb, glide, swim, and sail your boat around a beautiful archipela…
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The Signal From Tölva
· Mixed 68% · 2017FPSOpen WorldThe Signal From Tölva is an open-world first-person shooter set on a distant, haunted, future world.…
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