The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
9.6/10Nintendo rebuilt Breath of the Wild around player-authored physics, turning a world you explore into a world you build machines inside.
Nintendo Switch
Best Open World Games: 12 Catalogued (2026)
A single continuous map you can traverse largely at your own pace and in your own order.
12 games catalogued, 4 reviewed in full
Elden Ring
9.5/10FromSoftware took the Souls formula into an open world and produced the studio's most approachable and most expansive game at the same time.
PlayStation 5PlayStation 4Xbox Series X and Series S+2 more
Genshin Impact
8.3/10A free-to-play open world action RPG that runs on phones, tablets, PC and PlayStation, funded entirely by randomised character pulls.
iOSAndroidiPad+4 more
Halo Infinite
8.0/10A strong return to form for Halo's moment-to-moment combat, wrapped in a live-service structure that took years to stabilise.
Xbox Series X and Series SXbox OnePC
Also catalogued
8 more Open World games, not yet reviewedWe have reviewed 4 of these in full. The rest are catalogue records: title, year, studio and platforms, sourced from Wikidata. They are not indexed by search engines, because a record is not a review.