20 BEST Walking Simulators! Best Non-Combat Exploration Games 2024

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  • @JohnJohn-pm9wq
    @JohnJohn-pm9wq Рік тому +31

    I love walking simulators, they help me walk better

  • @supercyberfunk
    @supercyberfunk Рік тому +33

    I just want a walking simulator that's just beautiful environments, with no real objective, just walking around in the picturesque beautiful scenery that's preferably photorealistic or close to it. No games like that, sadly.

    • @RtB68
      @RtB68 Рік тому +8

      So true - exactly what I'm looking for as well. I'd love to play Firewatch with much less story and just watch the sunset/rise and wander hither and thither

    • @celecha
      @celecha 11 місяців тому +6

      Yeah! And I feel like not having a story attached and needing to progress through a story makes such a game more replayable

    • @graysonpeddie
      @graysonpeddie 11 місяців тому +5

      You are not the only one.

    • @kelbinhow
      @kelbinhow 10 місяців тому +5

      Exactly, sometimes I find myself opening some open world games just to roam around... RDR2, Death Stranding, heck even GTA 4 and 5, Kingdom Come Deliverance, etc. And as you, I'm looking for a game to mindlessly roam around with no objectives whatsoever, but that also has a living world, be it out there in the wild (like RDR2) or maybe even inside a city

    • @graysonpeddie
      @graysonpeddie 10 місяців тому +4

      @@kelbinhow I tried playing Eastshade which has beautiful music, but in order to explore the "open world," you need to perform tasks as a painter mechanic and I kind of ran out of "canvases" so I can get some money to pay a toll, so I ended up getting feathers. And you cannot explore during the night without warm clothes. I just feel that Eastshade is not completely an open world game at all. The world feels more like a "closed world" until I complete a couple of quests.
      I don't care about open world games being rewarding; I just want to explore. Oh, well... I just have to give up on the open world walking simulators.

  • @LOSTINRAPTURE
    @LOSTINRAPTURE Рік тому +21

    Ah my favorite genre! 😊
    Here a little bit more with small puzzles and some good storylines…
    - Maquette
    - Last Days of Lazarus
    - The Town of Light
    - State of Mind
    - The Park
    - Close to the Sun
    - Road 96
    - The Suicide of Rachel Foster
    - Discolored
    - In the Rays of light
    - Virginia
    - Draugen
    - Nevermind
    Enjoy!

    • @ProdigalDaughter85
      @ProdigalDaughter85 Рік тому +2

      Suicide of Rachel Foster is excellent!!! 👍🏼😊

    • @ozAqVvhhNue
      @ozAqVvhhNue Рік тому +1

      Also "In Other Waters" even though it's a bit more on the side of a text adventure.

    • @iangillon6981
      @iangillon6981 Рік тому +1

      Same :)

    • @celecha
      @celecha 11 місяців тому +1

      Wow thank you for this list! Looked up all games, and I like the look of most of them!

    • @banilla1190
      @banilla1190 7 місяців тому +1

      I love road 96 one of my favourite walking sims with road 96

  • @ynyslochtyn
    @ynyslochtyn Рік тому +2

    Medieval Dynasty is clearly a walking simulator especially if you remove the survival elements in the settings, although you go on to build and manage villages later on.

  • @Jess-nc4oy
    @Jess-nc4oy Рік тому +4

    Your version of Dear Esther, Dear Olga is still one of the funniest videos I've seen on yt.

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  Рік тому +2

      Oh yeah, "I beat you on accident, please make dinner" :) But I ditched that eastern European character and style long long time ago, I got too much associations with russians because of it.

  • @SA1NT_GAMING
    @SA1NT_GAMING 21 день тому +1

    Finished Eastshade today. Such a hidden gem!

  • @tks1504
    @tks1504 Рік тому +4

    Paradise Lost would fit the list as well. Recently finished it and found it quite moving and atmospheric. A bit buggy but nothing that will stop you from finishing it. Thnx for the list, some of these I didn't know about yet, going on the wishlist.

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  Рік тому

      Yeah, you are right, I could have squeezed it in, but it's one of the few I couldn't finish. Child's perspective wasn't immersing for me (it's funny because my brain prefers to play as a fox rather than a child lol), although it was really beautiful.

  • @ianross9738
    @ianross9738 9 місяців тому +2

    WOWWWW… I just added almost all of these to my PS4 wish list as I watched this, good gracious. Thank you!!! 🙏

  • @ClefairyGodmother
    @ClefairyGodmother 5 місяців тому +1

    Amazing video - thank you! I hadn't heard of most of these titles and now I'm excited to dive in.

  • @MrMateusscopel
    @MrMateusscopel 6 місяців тому +1

    Other walking sims I recommend (some has puzzle elements):
    • Botany Manor
    • The Station
    • The Inheritance of Crimson Manor
    • Backfirewall_
    • Deliver Us the Moon
    • Paradise Killer
    • The Gap
    • The Invisible Hours
    • Devotion
    • Mundaun
    • The Forgotten City
    • The Painscreek Killings

  • @iangillon6981
    @iangillon6981 Рік тому +1

    I love them. Sunday morning, real early. Winter is better. :)

  • @brendankerr9570
    @brendankerr9570 8 місяців тому

    Enjoyed the video. Thanks! Ps, there is a run button in Everybody's Gone to the Rapture. Hold down R2 for a few seconds and you'll start to run.

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  8 місяців тому

      Maybe they updated it xD

  • @RtB68
    @RtB68 Рік тому +2

    ok...my view. Journey is an epic "must play" title. Flower, surprisingly good and a very sweet feel to it. Firewatch, quite moving and it poses a lovely question at the end. Its beautiful art style is a plus too. Everyone/Rapture, a bit of a grind for me - dull dialogue but technically a good game. Abzu - not as good as Journey, but only because I played Journey first - it's basically the same game. Dear Esther made me cry - but I was drunk and it was 3 am. The Stanley Parable a real blast - will absolutely make you laugh and when you arrive at the 2 doors for the first time and the narrator says "Stanley takes the door on the left" it will sit you up in your chair. Eastshade was very pretty but it never really engaged me and the only one here I didn't finish.

  • @d9kd9k
    @d9kd9k Рік тому +2

    Interesting that most of the walking simulators are grim like taking a walk on a cemetery

    • @RtB68
      @RtB68 Рік тому +2

      Well, Dear Esther certainly is, probably Ethan and Finch as well - but Journey is uplifting. So is Abzu and Flower is just gorgeous. Rapture is a bit of a drag but Firewatch is one of my top 10 games ever but I was going through a personal crisis at the time, so I'm bias.

  • @judemoore1248
    @judemoore1248 Рік тому +2

    Unfinished Swan and Tacoma seem to be my "cup of potato salad"...is that a thing? LOL. Thanks for heads up.

  • @shawnmckenzie8699
    @shawnmckenzie8699 Рік тому +1

    I have played The Companion. It's quite good.

  • @kingarcadian
    @kingarcadian 3 місяці тому

    amazing collection!

  • @crunchyy333
    @crunchyy333 Рік тому +1

    I see ColdBeer, I like. Nice video as always mate.

  • @eaglelyy5780
    @eaglelyy5780 Рік тому +6

    Tacoma is a very underrated hidden gem, great story and ending too.

  • @GG-zv9ku
    @GG-zv9ku 10 місяців тому +2

    I get the complain about not being to run in Everybody's gone to the rapture but I play this type of game to enjoy immerse my self in those worlds. so I don't mind walking and look at everything. running naturally make me just gloss over and not really take everything in.

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  10 місяців тому

      Slow walking is made perfectly fine in other games, like Dear Esther, but in Rapture... it is infuriating. It makes no sense.

  • @World-Wizard
    @World-Wizard 6 місяців тому

    Dayz is a great one if you like survival. For such a brutal game sometimes, half your time will be spent hiking through the czech countryside, with no ingame map, so you'll have to navigate yourself. It's good fun.

  • @dylanjohncahill1999
    @dylanjohncahill1999 11 місяців тому +2

    What about gone home? What remains of Edith Finch should have been 2nd place.

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  11 місяців тому

      Games here are not ranked

  • @nanach6276
    @nanach6276 9 місяців тому

    Lost Ember! It's the best ever bro! ^^

  • @sudd3660
    @sudd3660 9 місяців тому

    if you only play the beginning of Alien: Isolation, then that counts, at least what i did. quit when i combat arrived.
    maybe the invincible also counts.
    then you got space engine, you have no legs but also nothing but exploring to do :)

  • @gheorghemosneaga5975
    @gheorghemosneaga5975 2 дні тому

    I loved Trolljegeren!

  • @salvadorgonzales1
    @salvadorgonzales1 Місяць тому

    which one of these are multiplayer? :3

  • @Liofa73
    @Liofa73 Рік тому +2

    The Long Dark - Major League Walking.

    • @Jess-nc4oy
      @Jess-nc4oy Рік тому +1

      Trudging Simulator more like. :D

  • @AmadeusMagnus
    @AmadeusMagnus Рік тому

    The Wanderer: Frankenstein's Creature

  • @lucadesanctis563
    @lucadesanctis563 Рік тому +1

    Soundtrack name?

  • @maxthomas86
    @maxthomas86 Рік тому

    Did you remove the steam deck part of your videos?

    • @crunchyy333
      @crunchyy333 Рік тому +2

      They're in the description of what systems they're on.

  • @jameswayton2340
    @jameswayton2340 8 місяців тому

    I got this video recommended after hellblade 2 released 😂😂😂

  • @axelnilsson2031
    @axelnilsson2031 11 місяців тому

    don't assume that people who use "difficult words" had to google them and are actively trying to sound smart, some people have a larger vocabulary than the average person

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  11 місяців тому

      The only right place for fancy words is in the journal like "Scientific American" :) I read it all the time, but if someone starts using them casually... then my olfaction detects feces of bos taurus. Nobody with at least some IQ points speaks like that in real world.

  • @stage6fan475
    @stage6fan475 Рік тому +2

    Interesting category of games.

  • @loopo8940
    @loopo8940 Рік тому +1

    Expected Death Stranding for the memes. 😂

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  Рік тому

      I made similar list 4 years ago and yeah... comments were all about it :) But it's too overused by now

    • @loopo8940
      @loopo8940 Рік тому +1

      @@ColdBeer I just completed the story so im a little late to the party 🥲

  • @Ipsorai
    @Ipsorai Рік тому

    INFRA is a hallway walking simulator :p

    • @Naemen
      @Naemen Рік тому

      Give it another hour or two and you will change your mind :)

    • @Ipsorai
      @Ipsorai Рік тому

      @@Naemen haha. I don’t said it in a bad way, :p I really love INFRA

  • @Munyos1
    @Munyos1 6 місяців тому

    Plenti are missing !

  • @YogBaal
    @YogBaal Рік тому +1

    TITAN CHASER RULES! TROLL HUNTER ALSO RULES!

  • @izzyr3231
    @izzyr3231 Рік тому

    Stroll playing games

  • @mmvsn
    @mmvsn Рік тому

    INFRA

  • @raphaelleroy3324
    @raphaelleroy3324 9 місяців тому

    Beyond blue

  • @6thLegionsDaddy
    @6thLegionsDaddy Рік тому

    Where is DayZ

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  Рік тому

      Where is Death Stranding??!!

  • @maximumcarnage2988
    @maximumcarnage2988 Рік тому

    Where's Death Stranding?

    • @ColdBeer
      @ColdBeer  Рік тому

      Too much horror elements

  • @RealSA1NT
    @RealSA1NT Рік тому

    Where's death stranding lmao

  • @Squeakywilly
    @Squeakywilly 10 місяців тому

    Where´s pubg?

  • @solitaryangel722
    @solitaryangel722 Рік тому

    Infra and Kona worth adding and Submerged is a sort of boat/climbing simulator with no death, no horror. I loved Firewatch and Edith Finch and can't recall much about Ethan Carter, I found it forgettable.

    • @Naemen
      @Naemen Рік тому

      Infra and Kona are awesome!