Early Access
Open World games currently in Steam Early Access, scored by how recently and how regularly they ship updates.
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A complex mech combat simulator, with native VR and HOTAS support. Manage a 50-foot bipedal weapons platform with a cockpit full of interactive controls, while carrying out complex operations across a challenging single-player campaign.
OVRLRD · Last signal 35 days ago · 87% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
23/100
Flight of Nova is a simulator based on newtonian mechanics in which you control spacecraft in the Noren star system. You fly multiple types of spacecraft doing transport and search missions in an environment with realistic aerodynamics and orbital physics.
Aerovery Lab · Last signal 37 days ago · 93% positive · 7 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
13/100
Explore and mine fully destructible worlds. Automate increasingly complex production chains. Delve deep to uncover an ancient civilization’s powerful secrets and learn to love the sand in this factory game where every pixel is a valuable resource.
Lantto Games · Last signal 37 days ago · 97% positive · 887 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
Craft your culinary adventure in a beautiful pixel art world. Manage your restaurants, forage and hunt for ingredients, befriend locals, and grow your culinary empire. What kind of chef will you be?
World 2 Studio · Last signal 37 days ago · 88% positive · 155 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
29/100
A base-building open-world survival shooter that replaces your typical base with a giant drill. Alone or with friends, explore an island plagued by eruptions, upgrade your drill, and fight robots to uncover what's been hiding beneath the surface.
Volcanoid · Last signal 38 days ago · 83% positive · 18 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
32/100
MONOMYTH is an immersive, first-person dungeon-crawling RPG inspired by the genre's late classics. Embark on a journey through a vast and highly interactive game world as you unravel the mysteries hidden beneath the ancient fortress of Lysandria.
Rat Tower · Last signal 38 days ago · 92% positive · 4 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
26/100
Build and fly your own airplane! Complete missions to earn money, upgrade your plane, and discover new locations in an open world.
Jelle Booij · Last signal 38 days ago · 97% positive · 159 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
Step aboard the USS Orville (ECV-197), the Planetary Union's finest mid-level exploratory class cruiser. With every room on every deck recreated with painstaking accuracy, you are free to explore the ship at your leisure and engage in all manner of shenanigans!
Messy Desk Interactive · Last signal 39 days ago · 90% positive · 1 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
32/100
Arm your vehicle with deadly weapons and roam endless wastelands in this fast-paced single-player / online co-op car combat game. Collect upgrades for your car to melt enemies and giant bosses in this bizarre world. Retro vibe. Retro cars. Retro gameplay!
FUMES team · Last signal 40 days ago · 96% positive · 43 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
34/100
Design and run your own railroads for the real world. Solve global transportation dilemmas. Unleash your inner railway engineer and transit policy manager.
Weird and Wry · Last signal 40 days ago · 90% positive · 120 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
23/100
Welcome to a reimagining of Beneath the Cardboard, a fairytale-themed tale of things not so fairytale-like... Survive countless cold nights in Snow Town, a place where no one will look at you twice.
Lunsemo Studio · Last signal 41 days ago · 81% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
18/100
Penkura is a sci-fi base-building survival game where you construct a colony from a top-down command system, explore an alien world in first person, and use programmable bots to gather resources, build, repair, and keep your base alive.
LionsArt · Last signal 45 days ago · 90% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
Your home is a living beast. Explore a handcrafted open world in an action RPG where you fight with magic, gather resources, find loot, craft, and grow stronger. Customize and expand your home on its back, and take it with you as you explore solo or with friends.
Rhomita · Last signal 47 days ago · 86% positive · 2 playing
Consistency
Irregular
58/100
Explore a world of creative building, interactive machines, and gears - lots of gears. Build all things mechanical: cars, trucks, cranes, tanks, gearboxes, engines, clocks, anything you can think of. Test your creations to destruction in challenging scenarios, and share them in the workshop!
SmashHammer Games · Last signal 48 days ago · 91% positive · 24 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
39/100
Take on the role of park manager and design the ultimate zoo for nature's greatest creations.
Blue Meridian · Last signal 48 days ago · 90% positive · 168 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
35/100
The most detailed cottage experience. Live as a regular Finnish man and enjoy the summer. Play relaxed: go to the sauna, get drunk and grill food. Play how you want: make moonshine, become a burglar and turbocharge your moped.
RANELA GAMES · Last signal 49 days ago · 94% positive · 8 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
“Cowboy Life Simulator” is an immersive and relaxing ranching sim where you step into the boots of a failed businessman starting fresh on the frontier. Buy your first goat, meet the locals, explore vibrant lands, and build your dream ranch in a world full of stories and adventure!
Odd Qubit · Last signal 50 days ago · 88% positive · 21 playing
Consistency
Irregular
50/100
Take flight in a seaplane flight simulator through a rugged world where you are responsible for the care and maintenance of your plane. Deliver cargo between far-flung communities in a flooded landscape that challenges your piloting skills! Fix your plane and keep flying!
Photon Games · Last signal 51 days ago · 87% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Irregular
53/100
Unbridled: That Horse Game is the ultimate horse simulator, giving you the freedom to follow your own dreams and create your own unique story. Experience the freedom of riding, the challenges of horse sports, and the joy of breeding horses - all in a stunning virtual world.
Mind Evotion Games · Last signal 54 days ago · 86% positive · 6 playing
Consistency
Rarely updated
12/100
Moonshiner Simulator is an in-depth spirits production simulator. Start from the bottom and build your operation into a thriving empire by mastering the intricacies of the craft and creating unique recipes. But beware – there will always be those who want to see you fail.
Goosix Games · Last signal 54 days ago · 86% positive · 1 playing
Consistency
Irregular
47/100
Embark on a PvE survival adventure in the Age of Piracy. Fight on land and sea, solo or with friends. Build, craft and explore vast open world filled with dark secrets. Master soulslite combat and take on challenging bosses, command your ship and plunder unspoken treasures!
Kraken Express · Last signal 57 days ago · 87% positive · 1.7k playing
Consistency
Irregular
50/100
Destroy massive swarms of monsters to grind and grow stronger in this Open-World Sandbox RPG. Build automated systems that farm monster drops for you, defeat bosses, and descend deeper into an interconnected underworld.
Piokou · Last signal 2 months ago · 86% positive · 0 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
35/100
The world's first science-based photorealistic interactive 3D planetarium that models the entire Universe, using procedural generation for uncharted areas.
Cosmographic Software · Last signal 2 months ago · 96% positive · 193 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
35/100
Explore a vast open world and crawl through dungeons in first person, then fight tactical turn-based battles from a top-down perspective. Guide your adventuring party through Archaelund, mankind's last frontier, and uncover its many secrets.
4 Dimension Games · Last signal 2 months ago · 84% positive · 5 playing
Consistency
Sporadic
20/100