Summary
Open-world games are among the most expansive undertakings that game developers create, bringing entire worlds to life that have their own unique climates, populations, and evolving ecosystems. These games evolve as the player progresses through the world and change depending on the choices they make.
Some games are open to multiple players simultaneously, allowing for a shared experience in both PVE and PVP settings. This game supports massive player counts and pushes the limits of immersion to its peak.Open-world gamescan be some of the most incredible experiences, but become even more fantastic with friends. Here are some of the best shared open-world games.
Fallout 76
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Bethesda Game Studios, the award-winning creators of Skyrim and Fallout 4, welcome you to Fallout 76. Twenty-five years after the bombs fell, you and your fellow Vault Dwellers—chosen from the nation’s best and brightest – emerge into post-nuclear America on Reclamation Day, 2102. Play solo or join together as you explore, quest, build, and triumph against the wasteland’s greatest threats. Explore a vast wasteland, devastated by nuclear war, in this open-world multiplayer addition to the Fallout story. Experience the largest, most dynamic world ever created in the legendary Fallout universe. Expand southward to Skyline Valley – a brand-new region of Appalachia. Investigate the cause of the electric storm circling overhead and unveil the mystery around Vault 63 and its dwellers, including a shocking new Ghoul type – The Lost.
Fallout 76is an innovative take on one of Bethesda’s flagship franchises. The game takes the apocalyptic setting ofFalloutand creates a massive, open-world environment for players to explore.
Players take on the role of a Vault Dweller, newly released into the wild from Vault 78. On the first day in a New, Strange, Expansive, and Harsh environment, players must learn the rules quickly to survive.Fallout 76offers a shared open-world experience, allowing up to twenty-four players on a public server where they can trade, group up, and explore with one another.
Red Dead Online
Step into the vibrant, ever-evolving world of Red Dead Online and experience life across frontier America.Forge your own path as you battle lawmen, outlaw gangs and ferocious wild animals to build a life on the American frontier. Build a camp, ride solo or form a posse and explore everything from the snowy mountains in the North to the swamps of the South, from remote outposts to busy farms and bustling towns. Chase down bounties, hunt, fish and trade, search for exotic treasures, run your own underground Moonshine distillery, or become a Naturalist to learn the secrets of the animal kingdom and much more in a world of astounding depth and detail.Join millions of fellow players in the American West, and experience a world now packed with years’ worth of new features, gameplay and additional enhancements.
Red Dead Onlineis an open-world online expansion ofRed Dead Redemption 2, allowing players to create their own custom cowboy or cowgirl and take on the violent era of the Old West.Red Dead Onlineoffers a massive open worldthat can accommodate up to 16 players, allowing them to interact with one another, either peacefully or antagonistically.
Players can go on missions together, explore the frontier, or wreak havoc across multiple towns.Red Dead Onlinedoes an incredible job of incorporating immersive layers into the world and features incredibly realistic animations and physics.
ARK: Survival Evolved
As a man or woman stranded naked, freezing and starving on the shores of a mysterious island called ARK, you must hunt, harvest resources, craft items, grow crops, research technologies, and build shelters to withstand the elements. Use your cunning and resources to kill or tame & breed the leviathan dinosaurs and other primeval creatures roaming the land, and team up with or prey on hundreds of other players to survive, dominate… and escape!You must eat and drink to survive, with different kinds of plants & meat having different nutritional properties, including human meat. Ensuring a supply of fresh water to your home and inventory is a pressing concern. All physical actions come at a cost of food and water, long-distance travel is fraught with subsistence peril! Inventory weight makes you move slower, and the day/night cycle along with randomized weather patterns add another layer of challenge by altering the temperature of the environment, causing you to hunger or thirst more quickly. Build a fire or shelter, and craft a large variety of customizable clothing & armors, to help protect yourself against locational damage & extreme temperatures using the dynamic indoor/outdoor insulation calculation system!
Ark: Survival Evolvedis an intense and harsh survival game that provides a challenging experience that pits players against prehistoric monsters, deadly environments, and dangerous exploration. Players are dropped into a dinosaur-infested world where they must combat hunger, thirst, warmth, and safety or be devoured at the bottom of the food chain.
Ark: Survival Evolvedallows players to advance their tools to futuristic levels, tame wild dinosaurs, and build massive bases in the open world, solo or with friends.
DayZ
DayZ is a hardcore survival game where players must strive to endure a post-apocalyptic world populated by frenzied infected and other survivors. DayZ includes the original Chernarus terrain, and the Livonia terrain.Chernarus – The iconic DayZ terrain, set in the post-soviet state of Chernarus and encompassing 230 km2 of hand-crafted environment based on real life locations.Livonia – The dense 163 km2 map lets players experience the hardcore survival hit in a whole new environment. Players can put their survival skills to the test by venturing into the unfamiliar land of Livonia, and seeing just how long they can last in this deadlier-than-ever world.
DayZbegan as anArma 2mod, which transformed the massive world of the game into a detailed and harsh zombie apocalypse survival experience. Able to support up to sixty players, after being dropped into the e world, players must find nourishment, clothing, armor, and weapons all by scavenging barren areas for scraps and leftover equipment.
DayZis an open PVE and PVP game, so everything has the possibility to be a threat, from zombie NPCs to other players.DayZsupports crafting, exploration, and base building, and offers multiple vehicles, including planes and cars, for players to utilize.
Minecraft
Minecraft is a game made up of blocks, creatures, and community. you may survive the night or build a work of art – the choice is all yours. But if the thought of exploring a vast new world all on your own feels overwhelming, then fear not!Minecraft has no set goal and can be played however you’d like! This is why it’s sometimes called a “sandbox game” – there are lots of things for you to do, and lots of ways that you can play. If you like being creative, then you can use the blocks to build things from your imagination. If you’re feeling brave, you can explore the world and face daring challenges. Blocks can be broken, crafted, placed to reshape the landscape, or used to build fantastical creations.Creatures can be battled or befriended, depending on how you play. The world of Minecraft allows for epic adventures, quiet meditations, and everything in between. You can even share your creations with other players, or play in community worlds!
Minecraftis one of the most popular games in history, having broken worldwide records upon its initial release.Minecraftcenters around building and crafting, allowing players to scavange materials from the environment and use them to craft anything they can think of.
Minecrafthas one of the largest worlds in gaming that has multiple biomes and climates, from desert tundras to phantasmal underworlds. WhereMinecraftshines is in its mod support, which allows players to download user-created expansions that provide everything from upgraded graphics packs, skins, and entirely new world designs.
Rust
You wake naked on a mysterious island armed only with a rock and a torch. You’ll need to brave natural dangers (from heat and cold to thirst and starvation), build a shelter, eat (or be eaten), scavenge materials. Explore the island, its abandoned settlements, mysterious monuments and the factions that occupy them. But, above all, watch out for other survivors…Design and build bases to defend your territory or control the resources of the island. Research the tech tree, grow farms, command electricity, commandeer vehicles from horses to cars to boats to helicopters. Whatever it takes to get ahead.There are no rules in Rust but the ones you make for yourself. Craft tools, armor and weapons to defend yourself. Cooperate with friends and allies and build a town together. Explore the island and what’s happening in it. Trade with other players. Or prey on them, raiding their bases and taking their hard-won goods.
Rustis another harsh survival game that drops players into a large open world with minimal supplies and tasks them with forging their own path to survival. The world ofRustis filled with lethal obstacles, including deadly fauna, local predators, and monstrous behemoths.
It is up to players to find resources to craft equipment and protection, which takes in-game time and effort. Players can struggle with a rock and a piece of cloth or rise to the top with a castle, firearms, and traps.Rustservers can support up to one thousand players, with local team limits of eight.
No Man’s Sky
Lose yourself in a vast sci-fi odyssey as you explore a near-infinite, procedurally generated universe. Set out from the edge of the Euclid galaxy and carve out your own interstellar existence in a vast universe teeming with life, danger and near-endless mystery. No Man’s Sky is a hugely-ambitious, heavily-stylised, sci-fi adventure that spans entire galaxies all brought to life with procedural generation. Travel through an endless array of increasingly diverse and dangerous star systems, prospecting for rare materials, trading with alien life, populate planets and searching for clues to the meaning of the universe’s mysterious existence. How you survive is up to you. Assemble entire fleets of dreadnought-class freighters and tear across the universe; build sprawling habitable bases across planet surfaces, beneath the ground or under the ocean; buy and upgrade your own weapons and star ships and do battle with outlaw space pirates, hostile alien fauna or the mysterious sentinel fleets. The universe is yours to explore - trillions upon trillions of planets, waiting to be discovered.
No Man’s Skylaunched to a rocky start, offering a near-endless open-universe survival game. Players begin as an intergalactic frontiersman who must repair their ship and continue on their journey of exploration.
No Man’s Skyhouses thousands of enormous worlds of various climates that players can travel to, explore, and build seamlessly.No Man’s Skyalso grants a host ofcustomization options, different starships, character skins, and base options.No Man’s Skyis one of the largest shared-world games, constantly updated since its release.
Take To The Streets Of Los Santos With Endless Freedom
GTA Online
Grand Theft Auto Online is a dynamic and persistent online world for SIXTEEN players that begins by sharing gameplay features, geography and mechanics with Grand Theft Auto V, but continues to expand and evolve with new content created by Rockstar Games and the Grand Theft Auto community.Grand Theft Auto Online takes the fundamental Grand Theft Auto concepts of freedom, ambient activity and mission-based gameplay and makes them available to multiple players in a detailed and responsive online world. In GTA Online, players have the freedom to explore alone or with friends, work cooperatively to complete missions, come together to participate in activities and ambient events, or compete in traditional game modes with the larger community, all with the personality and refined mechanics of Grand Theft Auto V.Players can invest in their character through customizing their appearance, improving their stats, owning customized vehicles, purchasing personal property, and taking part in missions, jobs and activities to earn reputation and cash to open up new opportunities to rise through the criminal ranks.The world of Grand Theft Auto Online will constantly grow and change as new content is added, creating the first ever persistent and dynamic Grand Theft Auto game world. Access to Grand Theft Auto Online is free with every retail copy of Grand Theft Auto V.
GTA Onlineis the online expansion ofGrand Theft Auto 5, one of the most successful games in history.Grand Theft Auto Onlineallows players to explore, interact, and take advantage of the enormous Los Santos map and live a second life free of consequences.
Players can play it safe and interact with the world in various activities such as sports and entertainment, or become an overnight legend by going on heists, leading biker gangs, or wreaking havoc on he city and other players.GTA Onlinesupports up to thirty players, and it even has an option for private servers.
