What are some good open world games/series that would be nice to take a walk thru from start to finish?
Like a literal, pleasant, long walk kinda like a journey like Shrek?
EDIT: DayDreamGaming on Youtube seems to have a gold mine of these type videos
Passage is a Zen simulation , which is a pleasant walk in an open-world, if that world is a line segment.
libregamewiki.org page (spoilers): Passage(2007)
Enshrouded, they have some great views and path you could follow.
You could try death stranding. It's about walking and the journey.
Oh! The Long Dark, survival mode, on the easiest setting.
A Short Hike
It's a cute indy game about reaching the top of a mountain (no, not a Celeste clone i swear)
A Short Hike is the best answer to this question. I'm sad that we haven't had a release of "Another Short Hike" yet.
I don't remember if it is in fact open world, but a game for just chill and take a long walk from start to finish is Firewatch
Take out all the people and creatures trying to kill you along the way and I feel like a walk down the intended route from Goodsprings to New Vegas would be fun enough and fairly pleasant. Otherwise, it's a survival game nightmare I wouldn't win, no matter how you slice it.
And if you'd consider Yooka-Laylee open world, the full first book you enter would be fun to stroll all over in for a short while. Especially since the majority of the enemies look like little pushovers.
As you specifically mention Minecraft: check out Valheim. In default settings you can hardly call it a pleasant stroll, but exploring the biomes is beautiful with especially stunning lighting.
It can be made significantly more pleasant by bringing a couple of, uh, >!hunting dogs!< (is redacting called for?).
Rustle in the bush? >!Dogs!< run off. Snarls, rending noises. Piece and quiet. 😅
I haven't even explored all the biomes but I'm quite content in my little homestead by the lake.
Red Dead 2. Law killed my horse in Valentine, so I decided to walk and hitchhike back to Clemens Point. I wrestled a bear, found the plague village, blew up a KKK gathering... just regular old west things.
The early STALKER games are also nice, if you're into that sort of atmosphere. Nothing beats the feeling of sitting in the rookie village next to the world's most mediocre guitarist.
Just make sure to skip walking through Tall Tree, Roanoke Ridge, and Bluewater Marsh.
Journey.
Abzu.
Planet Crafter.
Satisfactory.
I personally think it'd be cool to walk out on any of the fields in Rocket League
Gosh there's so many though. Almost every game, haha.
I would prefer RL in real life.
As the game Raft is fun, fairly simple, huge, good for playing with friends or kids with out a ton of experience playing games, it’s got a decent story. Spent last summer beating it with my daughter and we both really liked it
Did you extend a single board hundreds of meters from your raft so you could clip into buildings?
Morrowind.
Miasmata.
Gothic 3.
Shadow of the Colossus. Just gorgeous scenery, even on PS2 emulation.
Red Dead Redemption 2.
LA Noire, if you like 1940s cities.
Whenever the mood hits me to play Red Dead 2, I always jump on my horse and just pick a direction and go for a ride.
It's inevitable that some shit will be stirred up, but for a good while it's just nice to hear nature and the steady trot of Ace.
Kingdom Come Deliverance 1/2. I just picked up 2 a few weeks ago and imo it is one of the best games ever made
Guild wars 2, large world, lots of variety in scenery.
Also can try stuff where that’s the point like Wildmender is about healing the land and chill, or eastshade. Which is just about enjoying the scenery.
Skyrim
If you've played and enjoyed skyrim and want more of it, do check out Enderal!! Trailer 1, Trailer 2
The version you install will depend on the version of skyrim you own:
Tons of new scenery, and fast travel is way limited so if you want a game to just slow down in and soak in the sights, look no further.
Easily one of the best stories I've ever experienced.
Enderal is so friggen good. Just, uh, remember that it's not Skyrim. The levelling is different, enemies are scaled to their location not to the PC's level, your dialogue choices actually matter, exploration is rewarded both mechanically and narratively.
And don't start the game with kids around.
Nobody mentioned elden ring, seriously?
The visuals in that game were amazing, and the changes in different scenery and themes. Holy shit. My #1.
The visuals were stunning but am I fuck taking a walk through:
Absolutely hell yes.
Just walk fast.
Eh.
Without the unique boss designs and gameplay mechanics, the world looks and feels like every other Souls, but with more pixels. Not bad, but not strong enough on its own.
I don't think I agree with that. None of the Souls games ever had anything like Siofra River or Liurnia. Areas like Leyndell and Farum Azula, sure, but there's a lot of variety in the Elden Ring map
I've seen someone do that in Skyrim, but haven't done it myself.
Came for the typing and stayed for the story/journey. It's a beautiful game.
Same for me. I was looking for a fun adventure-typing game and found this beautiful little gem.
World of Warcraft
I have high hopes for Light No Fire.
Right now I find Cyberpunk 2077 surprisingly pleasant to wander around in. Sure it's dangerous, but when you're so chromed to the gills you can shake off a high speed collision there isn't much threat.
Also, not an open world game at all, but the environments in Pacer are amazing. You barely get a chance to look at them because you're zooming along a racetrack at 400 mph, but they're still there. Sonashahar is a futuristic neoclassical Indian city, and I want to explore that
not really as big as other suggestions here but walking through kamurocho has its charms.
another one i haven't seen suggested yet is the walking simulator called death stranding. but this one needs to be a pleasant but mindful walk.
walking through kamurocho has its charms
Might want to point out that's the city in the Yakuza/Like a Dragon games, not everyone may know that.
thanks! yup, it's that place.
Subnautica, but only in Creative Mode.
Lovely and terrifying all at once. Can't wait for the new one!
Add raft as well
There's a short and sweet Zeldalike called Night Stones.
Daggerfall, Ultima Online, Morrowind
There's a fan upmake of Daggerfall with Unity engine. They tried not to change anything except fixing actual bugs.
Mod the bossfights out of Witcher 3 or BG3 and they'd both be awesome
Rain World
Two Worlds (if you can emulate 360)
If you have Minecraft try Sildur's Shaders with a texture pack of your choice
Caves of Qud
Metroid Prime Series (I dont think that counts as open world but damn it felt like exploration)
Star Fox Adventure (GameCube emulation)
Elder Scrolls Oblivion
Draken and the Ancient Gates is also a ps2 game thats like half open world but it was so cool.
The original Earth Defense Force felt open world to my child mind.
Voxel Libre is like Minecraft
Theres a ton I'm not pulling off the top of my head but check itch.io for the voxel games as there are a ton of interesting Minecraft clones.
Sky cotl
Cyberpunk 2077.