Top 10 Open World Games You Can Play in 2022

Numerous open-world games launch for consoles and PC every year. A number of them are just okay, while some are so good that people cannot stop talking about them years after their launch. These kinds of games take a lot of time to develop.

Keeping the limelight on these games, here’s a list of 10 such open-world games that are just unforgettable and can be picked up on any platform.

Red Dead Redemption 2 

Released in 2018 to universal critical acclaim for its writing, performances, gameplay, world, and music. it would not be wrong to say that almost every aspect of this game is perfect. Its gameplay just pulls players into its world. It has characters that players find very hard to forget. It has music that would make players keep their controllers down, if even for a second.

And finally, this game has an open world that players are exploring to this day and still finding new things.

Elden Ring 

From Software announced Elden Ring with a very stunning cinematic trailer. Along with that trailer, they announced that it would be their first open-world game and George R. R. Martin would be helping them with world-building.

Now From Software makes such games where every broken wall has a story. If you find a dead person with an arrow in his back, you are sure to find a person with a bow somewhere. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki and George R. R. Martin filled the world of Elden Ring with such stories.

A blind woman waiting for her father, her father who cannot abandon his duties just for his daughter, a village full of people praying, a rotten diseased lake, and a General who is cursed to explore the deserts full of his fallen comrades to be reminded of his defeat.

And these are just the stories that you just stumble upon. You are free to go and complete the main story and you would complete these little tales of sadness and despair. All this is accompanied by beautiful visuals and trademark souls borne gameplay. It’s basically a dream come true.

Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim 

Ever since its launch in 2011, this game has become a scale for gamers to measure how good new games are. People called Far Cry 3 Skyrim with guns, some even called Forza Horizon Skyrim with cars. This just goes to show the respect this game holds.

From the very moment you start this game, you can ignore the main mission and walk anywhere, in any direction, and you would find a cave, a bandit camp, or a khajit caravan. You would walk through those snow-filled mountains, and the music and sound design would just pull you in.

You can abandon the world that’s asking you to save it and be a woodcutter, start a family, build a house, do some farming, go hunting, and even fish. And if you are bored, you can either hunt vampires or just join the vampires and become a nightwalker.

The possibilities this game has just make it perfect in most ways.

The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild 

Like Skyrim, this game also set out to change the world, and it kind of did. Once again, you are allowed to go anywhere, only this is not an RPG, so you are free to explore. You can cut trees, break horses, hunt animals, destroy enemy camps and find some creative ways to use those gadgets that you get.

It does not have much of a story to talk about. As usual, Ganon has taken over Hyrule and Link has to take him down. But there’s a reason players spend over 200 hours on this game and aren’t even close to finishing it.

Its world is equally beautiful and intriguing and people tend to forget everything else while ignoring this world.

Grand Theft Auto V

Obviously, a GTA game is on this list, GTA 6 is about to be announced sometime next year, and people have yet to let this one go.

This game was the culmination of everything Rockstar learned from its previous games. How cars should drive, how guns should work, and how to branch out the story amongst three different characters. And all that just combined to be one of the best open-world games ever made.

The story was pretty much what Rockstar always does, a mix of satire and crime drama told through the missions that had everything: shooting, driving, flying, and even deep diving.

Writers took advantage of every single bit of map they had, a perfect cross-state adventure.

Horizon: Zero Dawn

You start as a little girl, who finds a curious toy and just sticks it to her ear and the visions start. As she grows up, she sets out on an adventure and realizes that somehow that little toy thing is more useful than she could have ever imagined!

A snowy world, full of people go live in tribes and they hunt or get hunted by and sometimes even pray to robot animals. There are robot buffalos, deer, even hippopotamus, and huge dinosaurs. And your only mission is to find out what happened to this world?

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It’s a third-person action game where you use post-modern bows and spears. And explore a post-apocalyptic world full of dangers that no movie and no wildlife documentary told you about.

The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

You play as Geralt; he is a Witcher. Witchers are basically a person who trained for years to have scary eyes and superhuman strength. And they are very good at alchemy and tracking their prey.

Witchers usually take money from common folk in exchange for getting rid of monsters and ghouls for them. That is what we do in this game mostly, and we look for weapon blueprints, then we look for ingredients to make those weapons, then we look for people to fight in an ongoing fistfight tournament, then we just go and see what that question mark is for on the map.

And sometimes, if we feel like it, we go and look for a woman who is basically the main character’s daughter.

This is one of those games where aside from a million things to do in the world itself, the story too has a number of things to choose from. We have to make choices that can alter our game’s ending and can lead to some really heavy stuff.

Fallout: New Vegas

When players start a game, they expect to get a gun or a weapon, ride a horse, or anything, but they hardly expect to be shot and left for dead. This is what happens in New Vegas. Our character then embarks on a journey for revenge.

A world unlike any other we have talked about till now. One of the very few games that players can if they want complete without killing a single person. Talk and reason with people and if you have high enough skills, there’s nothing stopping you.

You explore several cities in Vegas and explore the ever-dangerous Mojave Desert and you kill scorpions and you make friends with dogs. You gamble in casinos, and you change the lives of many people. Even saving some from dying.

Some say this was the last good Fallout game ever and some say this is the best Fallout game ever. Whatever trophy people give this game, one thing is for sure, this game is worth playing if you like your choices to count.

Forza Horizon 5

Yes, this is the only driving game on this list. Beautiful cars are being driven in a world that actually seems worthy of these cars. Developers actually took a good time making this game. They based it in Mexico and it actually allows players to explore some really beautiful landmarks of that country.

The cars drive flawlessly, and the progression system is rewarding enough so you can feel rewarded even when you are not first.

You can even play this open-world game with a number of friends. There are group races to complete. And finally, when you are not racing and just being a bad driver, you can just go for a virtual long drive and forget the world for a few minutes. The world of Forza Horizon 5 actually allows that. It just pulls you in.

Assassin’s Creed 4

Assassin’s Creed franchise has so many good games. They are all based in several exotic locations. So, it gets hard to choose the best one out of them. But then the question arises, which modern Assassin’s Creed game do we find ourselves going back to again and again? It’s Black Flag, a game about a pirate who turns into an Assassin.

One of the best stories in the Assassin’s Creed series is about how a person who left home just for the riches that come with pirate life turns towards being an Assassin fighting a malicious group of people trying to take over the world for a sinister purpose.

The game is a mix of third-person action, a lot of ship maintenance, sailing, and ship combat. You can loot islands and you can explore the west indies to your heart’s content. Once again, you hunt animals, loot ships and if you ever feel like it, embark on a journey to complete the story.

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