Open-World Games

What are Open-World Games?

Open-world games are videos games with large, open environments the player can explore freely as the character in a game. It doesn’t have a linear structure as you would see with some other titles, such a Uncharted 4: A Thief’s End, which is fine in it’s right. But instead, you can explore vast and complex worlds typically ranging from cities to forests, mountains and oceans — or a combination. Basically, if you can see it, you can go to it. Well… the moon and outer space in general being the exception. But that’s not to say that that’s not a thing, I’m just not aware of it.

These world typically have a sandbox playstyle to them that the player can play and have fun with. It allows for more player freedom to create chaos or generally just explore these vast worlds that game developers often create. Some games do it better than others because of the financial ability or backing they have behind them, whereas others might not have that kind of money. For example, Grand Theft Auto 5 (GTA) by Rockstar games has a huge budget and can afford the high level of detail and world-building. But Cyberpunk 2077 on the other hand probably doesn’t have that same financial freedom because they don’t have a continual cash flow like Rockstar Games does with their GTA Online.

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