Open world gaming is a huge part of the industry these days and sales cards are being filled with adventure games and RPGs set in huge game worlds for players to explore freely. Open world games are popular because of the amount of content they usually have, how much freedom the player is given and of course how replayable they are.
Replayability is an important factor for many people when buying a single-player game, as the influx of free-to-play games and the introduction of subscription services like Game Pass have made many people think before paying the full AAA prices. However, gamers don’t have to worry about getting their money’s worth with the games on this list as they all offer great replay value to ensure players can dive in again and again.
REMARK:This list will only look at non-service games rather than MMOs and live service games, as we consider the latter to be more “endless playable” rather than “replayable”.
Then it turned out Metal Gear Solid 5: The Phantom Pain was going to be an open world game, many people were skeptical at first. The stealth and open world genres have inherent differences and they have struggled to be compatible in the past. However, Kojima Productions did a fantastic job of seamlessly merging the two opposing genres, creating one of the best stealth games of all time.
Metal Gear Solid 5The replayability of the game comes from many places, although the main source is how players approach missions. There are many routes and methods players can take if they want to reach their goal without having to kill or maybe even without being seen. Alternatively, the game has a huge arsenal of weapons for players to use, making the temptation to use them too hard for many people to resist. It’s definitely worth playing Metal Gear Solid 5 at least twice, once in full stealth mode and once with all weapons.
5 The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
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Like metal gear solid 5, CD Project Red’s The Witcher 3 was released early in the lifecycle of the eighth-generation home consoles, but took full advantage of the technology by providing a visually stunning open world that impressed players with its scope and detail. While these visuals were undoubtedly spectacular, it was the characters in the world and the stories that would unfold around them that would make the game so special.
The Witcher 3The numerous quests are mainly story-driven, with players having numerous choices to make. Like any game that presents players with a series of choices with far-reaching consequences, The Witcher 3 is a game that many people want to repeat to see where the other paths lead.
4 Fallout: New Vegas
Fallout: New Vegas was initially rejected by large parts of the game industry, because they saw the game’s lackluster visuals and thought that Bethesda was just trying to capitalize on the success of the game. Fallout 3. However, the game would soon prove doubters wrong, as while it admittedly didn’t look great, it’s now regarded as one of the best RPGs of all time.
The game from Obsidian Entertainment is loved by RPG fans for the way it embodied the sense of freedom of the RPG genre as players were amazed at how their decisions would affect the world around them in a way that felt natural.
3 The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild saw the iconic series return to its roots. Like the original Legend of Zelda game, Breath of the Wild gave players unparalleled freedom in where they wanted to go and in what order they wanted to do things, a rarity in the adventure genre.
Breath of the Wild‘s sense of adventure and exploration has made it one of the most engaging games of all time. Many players will complete the game feeling like they’ve seen everything there is to see, only to be overwhelmed on a second playthrough by tons of content they missed the first time around.
2 Elden Ring
FromSoftware’s Soulsborne series has quickly become one of the most highly regarded franchises in gaming history. Games like dark souls, Bloodborneand Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice have all been huge successes, thanks to their memorable boss fights, engaging combat mechanics, and in-depth knowledge.
Another reason for their success is how ingeniously designed the game worlds are. The games often feature interconnecting cards that go together beautifully, especially in the original dark souls. As such, many people were skeptical when it was announced that the latest game in the unofficial series, Elden Ring, would be an open world. However, FromSoftware didn’t disappoint, offering an incredible game world that, despite being massive in size, is packed with dungeons, boss battles, and memorable side missions.
Along with the abundance of missing content, Elden Ring is a highly replayable game due to its wide variety of builds, making players eager to try new weapons and armor in subsequent playthroughs.
Skyrim is an obvious choice for this list, given that the game was released more than ten years ago and many people are still regularly launching new save files. The game is the benchmark for modern RPGs, just like Bethesda’s other game on this list, Fallout: New Vegas, Skyrim gives players a huge amount of freedom in how they want to live in the world of the game.
Skyrim is immensely enjoyable whether players are completely passive and purely focused on crafting, trading and non-violent NPC quests or whether they are an aggressive adventurer clearing out bandit camps and dungeons. In any case, the game has plenty to offer.
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