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Sure, there are stories, quests, missions, and goals, but players are free to complete them at their own pace.

From fantasy realms to simulated galaxies, from modern cities to post-apocalyptic wastelands, the best open world games give players the freedom to choose their own pathto do what they want, when they wantand provide an interesting and rewarding setting for their self-guided adventures.

Death Stranding (Image credit: Kojima Productions) Released: 2020 Developer: Kojima Productions Kojimas first game after leaving Konami, Death Stranding is set in a post-death reality where the concept of the afterlife has been blown open.

Your goal as Sam Porter Bridges is to rebuild America by walking across the country and linking up cities, preppers, and waystations to, uh, the Time Internet It makes next to no sense, but thats OK.

Death Stranding is an indulgent mood piece first and an excellent hiking and delivery game second.

Andy Kelly puts it nicely in his review: Some jobs seem impossible.

Standing at the foot of a mountain, snow whipping at its peaks, fragile cargo stuck to every inch of your suit, you wonder how youll ever get over it.

But you power on, one step at a time, patiently placing ladders and climbing ropes, edging closer to your destination.

Along the way you might have to slip into Metal Gear mode and sneak past BTs, or deal with extreme weather such as disorientating blizzards.

You might even get knocked out by terrorists and have your cargo stolen, forcing you to sneak into their camp and take it back.

Red Dead Redemption 2 (Image credit: Rockstar Games) Best of the best (Image credit: CD Projekt RED) Best PC games Best free PC games Best laptop games New games of 2020 Released: 2019 Developer: Rockstar Games Rockstars historical open world series finally hit the PC with Red Dead Redemption 2, a monumental ode to the fading American frontier.

RDR2 is rife with detail, overstuffed with little touches: animal corpses persist and decay, the protagonist Arthur has commentary for nearly every location and character, and random world events make the world feel lived in, be it sucking on a mans snakebite wound or getting ambushed by hillbillies.

And on top of it all, Red Dead Online brings a DayZ adjacent quality to the open world, invoking everything from serious roleplay to ridiculous, surreal shenanigans.

Its also one of the prettiest games you can play on the PC today.

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With the mods rolling in quickly, RDR2 is bound to be a PC game we talk about for years and years to come.

Assassins Creed Odyssey Released: 2018 Developer: Ubisoft Assassins Creed Odyssey was a landmark for the series, altering a great deal of what Assassins Creed is known for and transforming itself into a true RPG.

Normally size doesnt matter, but the sheer scale of Odysseys ancient Greece is to its benefit, especially because each area feels so distinct and detailed, Steven wrote in his glowing review.

Its a vast world that I want to explore, and each zone has a subtle aesthetic that makes it unique, from the arid badlands of Crete to the verdant plains of Arkadia.

This isnt just Ubisofts biggest game ever, its also its most beautiful.

Reviewer Phillipa explains her fascination so: I adore the way the lighting and the art create the sense of each biome as being a distinct underwater creation, both alien and familiar.

I love following the creatures aroundeven the more aggressive onesand will happily front crawl my way into a curious labyrinthine cave system without remembering to lay a path of glowing markers so I can get back out.

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