Early Access
Open World games currently in Steam Early Access, scored by how recently and how regularly they ship updates.
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The glory of Rome is at your fingertips in this city-building game where you must appease the gods, enact laws, and develop complex supply chains to meet the needs of your citizens.
Lion Shield · Last signal 5 days ago · 93% positive · 466 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
A breathtaking open-world adventure awaits! Explore magical realms, restore lost light, and form wordless bonds with players worldwide. Complete quests and solve puzzles in seasonal events that celebrate kindness, discovery, and heartfelt connection.
thatgamecompany · Last signal 5 days ago · 87% positive · 2.2k playing
Consistency
Consistent
65/100
Break Nyx’s curse and guide humanity's rebirth in this top-down 2.5D Action RPG from the creators of CrossCode. Battle enemies with stylish combos, wield multiple divine weapons, solve intriguing puzzles and explore a changing world.
Radical Fish Games · Last signal 5 days ago · 94% positive · 16 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Build the most efficient intergalactic factory in space simulation strategy game Dyson Sphere Program! Harness the power of stars, collect resources, plan and design production lines and develop your interstellar factory from a small space workshop to a galaxy-wide industrial empire.
Youthcat Studio · Last signal 6 days ago · 97% positive · 1.8k playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
Soar with the wind as a shape-shifting bird. Explore worlds teeming with life. Discover and morph into hundreds of animal species. Relax and enjoy the freedom of Fugl.
Team Fugl · Last signal 6 days ago · 85% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
6/100
A classic voxel sandbox combined with in-depth progression through exploration, dungeon crawling and boss battles. Spend every minute discovering new weapons, abilities, resources, enemies, structures, mechanics and tools. With a strong focus on discovery, variety and creativity, the world is yours.
Infinimelon · Last signal 6 days ago · 93% positive · 25 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Create & destroy on an unimaginable scale with a realistic physics-based space simulator. Explore the beauty of our universe and the fragility of our planet. Use science to bend the laws of gravity, collide planets, boil away oceans, fire epic space lasers, and customize your universe.
Giant Army · Last signal 6 days ago · 96% positive · 372 playing
Consistency
Irregular
56/100
SimplePlanes is back! Build planes, cars, or anything else using powerful procedural parts! Explore detailed environments with friends in multiplayer, cause chaos, or download 1,000,000 community crafts for free.
Jundroo, LLC · Last signal 6 days ago · 92% positive · 229 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
An alchemical automation game of ever-changing logistical puzzles across six Elemental planes. Each Element transforms how you generate power, move resources, and defend your factory. Cultivate your own garden of possibility with dozens of uniquely shaped structures in this hex-grid sandbox.
CyanAvatar Studios · Last signal 7 days ago · 92% positive · 5 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
MMORPG Tycoon 2 is a single-player world-builder game about creating the greatest MMORPG of all time – yours.
VectorStorm Pty Ltd · Last signal 7 days ago · 86% positive · 23 playing
Consistency
Consistent
64/100
Industrial Petting is a cozy factory game about building an adoption empire of adorable pets! Play with friends or solo. Build happy pet pipelines, explore and farm an alien island, and fulfill adoption contracts from across the galaxy!
Another Yeti · Last signal 7 days ago · 91% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
6/100
Grow the TerraBeast you live on from a tiny patch of land into a whimsical world! In this fully hand-sculpted, playful systemic sandbox, you'll explore vibrant biomes, farm, craft, build, and befriend the wild OddFauna to create a thriving ecosystem.
North Channel · Last signal 7 days ago · 89% positive · 4 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
Successor to the roguelike RPG "Elona". Adventure, survival, crafting, home-building, myths passed down, and stories of humans and Elea spun. What scars will you leave on the land of Ylva?
Lafrontier · Last signal 7 days ago · 93% positive · 802 playing
Consistency
Consistent
70/100
A cozy 2.5D farm-life RPG that runs deep. Grow living soil into legendary harvests, romance 34+ villagers, breed magical animals, cook, fish, and dive the dungeons below for loot. No forced bedtime, no stress, just your dream farm at your own pace.
David Dolynny · Last signal 8 days ago · 88% positive · 8 playing
Consistency
Irregular
41/100
A dark cyberpunk RPG in a bleak dystopian future. Become a "freelancer" in the heart of Slade City, a sprawling urban nightmare of grimy asphalt and broken dreams where crime and disorder run rampant. - Stay Alert. Stay Armed. Stay Alive. Don't lose your humanity.
Corrosive Studios LLC · Last signal 8 days ago · 93% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Consistent
73/100
A cozy foraging adventure for anyone who loves the outdoors or wishes they knew it better. Every plant is real: learn to identify 100+ wild plants and fungi and cook 200+ real recipes, while helping a storm-struck town find its feet again.
Yaldi Games · Last signal 8 days ago · 93% positive · 6 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
My Village Life is an open world village simulator vehicle driving game.
Papucs Games · Last signal 10 days ago · 85% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
37/100
Forage, frolic and zoomie as an intelligent, aww-dorable animal who discovers an ancient mech. Pilot the mech and use a suite of powerful tools to gather resources, shape the land, and build your ideal town alongside a growing cast of characters—solo or with up to three friends.
Uncommon Games · Last signal 11 days ago · 89% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
Explore a hostile, living world: Uncover forgotten horrors, both man-made and supernatural, as you hunt for powerful weapons and exotic artifacts.
Siris Pendrake · Last signal 11 days ago · 93% positive · 164 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
23/100
You wander into the dangerous Asran Exclusion Zone. You will have to survive hunger, thirst, dangerous factions, radioactive emissions and the wild life. Remember, this is no man's home and you are not the hero.
radrunner · Last signal 11 days ago · 87% positive · 10 playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
From small-time dope pusher to kingpin - manufacture and distribute a range of drugs throughout the grungy city of Hyland Point. Expand your empire with properties, businesses, employees and more.
TVGS · Last signal 12 days ago · 98% positive · 12k playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
A solo or co-op RPG inspired by Morrowind. Drawn by a shared dream, you awaken on an isolated island crowned by a silent Tower. Unravel the mystery of the Laughless Saint, confront the weight of human desire, and decide what deserves to be saved when the light beneath the world finally stirs.
NerveLabs · Last signal 12 days ago · 90% positive · 136 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
18/100
Re.Poly is a relaxed yet deep indie survival game in a low-poly style that blends exploration, combat, building, and adventure. Whether alone or with friends, create your own world, write your own story, and decide how you want to play.
Hinkfoot Studios · Last signal 12 days ago · 91% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
Clanfolk is a colony sim set in the Scottish Highlands. Harness your environment to survive - fish, gather, hunt, and farm as you prepare for the winter. Build an inn, trade with other clans, have children and marry them off - live life and prosper across the generations.
MinMax Games Ltd. · Last signal 12 days ago · 92% positive · 217 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100