Open world games have become incredibly popular over the past few years with many gamers enjoying these experiences more than strictly linear titles. An open world game allows players to decide where they want to go and when they want to go there, though they may need to do something first before certain locations become accessible.
This allows players to decide the pacing of the game for themselves so they can take their time to explore everything that the developers created. Biomutant, an all new open world game, debuted earlier this year, and once fans decide to end their experience with it, they may look for a similarly open game to explore.
10 Minecraft Offers Open World Exploration For Solo And Co-Op Play
Minecraft is one of the most popular games in the world. It was made by Mojang and released on November 18, 2011, and almost ten years later, it’s now available on just about any device capable of running a video game.
Because players can build whatever they’d like and no world that they create is ever exactly the same, the exploration never ends. In fact, if someone wanted to, they could even make a world that resembles the world from Biomutant, or any other setting imaginable. One of the things that many Biomutant fans wanted in the game was multiplayer, and luckily, gamers can play Minecraft together.
9 Days Gone’s Zombie-Infested Apocalypse Echoes Biomutant’s Dystopia
Days Gone is a horror/action game set in an open world after an apocalypse, developed by Bend Studio and published by Sony Interactive Entertainment. In the game, players control a man named Deacon and fight against creatures, known as freakers, with similar characteristics to zombies. It released on the PS4 on April 26, 2019 and recently moved to PC on May 18, 2021.
8 Your Choices Matter Against The Monsters Of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt
Though it began as a book series and now has a television series on Netflix, The Witcher franchise is best known for the games, especially the third installment. The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt was made by CD Projekt Red.
The story is somewhat similar to Biomutant, and both games allow players to make decisions that result in different endings. It originally released on May 19, 2015, and is available on the PS4, Xbox One, Switch, and PC. It will also come to the Xbox Series X and PS5 with improved graphics.
7 Genshin Impact Matches Biomutant’s Customization Options
Genshin Impact is an open world RPG that came out last year on the PS4, PC, and mobile devices. It also released on the PS5 earlier in 2021 and will soon be available on Switch. Developed by miHoYo, the game constantly gets updated, giving fans a reason to always return to it, and seeing as how the game is free to play, it’s a title that everyone can easily try out. Like Biomutant, there’s a lot of customization, and Genshin Impact also allows players to control multiple characters, making the two games feel similar from the beginning.
6 Final Fantasy XV’s Technomagic Setting Blends The Futuristic And The Fantastical
Speaking of RPGs, Final Fantasy is one of the best gaming franchises of all time and its most recent main installment, Final Fantasy XV, happens to be an open world game. Made by Square Enix, this title was released on November 29, 2016 for the PS4 and Xbox One, March 6, 2018 for PC, and November 19, 2019 for Stadia, with another version called Final Fantasy XV: Pocket Edition available on the PS4, Xbox One, PC, Switch, and mobile devices. Players control a prince named Noctis who embarks on an epic and tragic journey with his three best friends.
5 NieR: Automata’s Philosophical Focus Poses Tough Choices
Another open world game published by Square Enix, though its setting is much smaller than Final Fantasy XV‘s, is NieR: Automata. Developed by PlatinumGames, it came out in 2017 and is playable on the PS4, Xbox One, and PC. In the game, players control three androids that must fight against the machines in an attempt to allow humans, who had fled to outer space, to come back to Earth.
NieR: Automata has a lot of philosophical themes that fans enjoyed and offers a variety of endings depending on the player’s choices, even encouraging multiple playthroughs to access certain endings. Before this game released, the Drakengard franchise was very underrated, but this spin-off title introduced a lot of newcomers to the series.
4 Ghost Of Tsushima Offers A Realistic Historical World To Explore
Ghost of Tsushima was one of the most popular games released in 2020. Developed by Sucker Punch Productions and produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, Ghost of Tsushima focuses on samurai Jin Sakai’s fight to protect his home from an invasion, and its setting is based on a real location in Japan. Those who enjoyed the saboteur class in Biomutant but want a more realistic experience won’t be disappointed by this title.
3 Spider-Man Brings An Iconic Superhero To An Open World
Spider-Man is one of the best superheroes, and while he’s appeared in many games through the years, none are better than the open world game that released on the PS4 on September 7, 2018 and the PS5 on November 12, 2020. It was developed by Insomniac Games and, like Days Gone and Ghost of Tsushima, was produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment. The game allowed players to really feel like they were the iconic webslinger as they swung around New York City, battling some of the coolest villains from the comics along the way.
2 The Legend Of Zelda: Breath Of The Wild Is Everyone’s Must-Play Open World Game
The Nintendo Switch is one of the best gaming devices ever made, being both a console and handheld system. But it wouldn’t be anything without its extensive library of games, including its incredible launch title The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild. It changed numerous elements of the Zelda formula that fans were used to, and though it didn’t have as good of a story or the best dungeons compared to previous installments, it also improved the series in a lot of ways. The game released on March 3, 2017 and gave many gamers a reason to get the Switch the day it came out.
1 Horizon Zero Dawn’s World Is Full Of Unique Creatures
Another popular open world game that released around the same time as The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild and shares many similarities to Biomutant is Horizon Zero Dawn. It came out on February 28, 2017 for the PS4 and August 7, 2020 for the PC. Developed by Guerilla Games and produced by Sony Interactive Entertainment, this title is about a girl named Aloy who learns the truth about her past and her dystopian world after she’s almost murdered trying to prove her worth to the Nora tribe, who had treated her terribly ever since she was born. With a sequel to this, Breath of the Wild, and other open world games forthcoming, gamers who haven’t yet tried these ten titles out should do so soon.
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