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Open world

Video game concept

Offers an unrestricted free-roaming virtual world for the player to play in approaching objectives freely.

600
games
52
platforms

Alternate name: Free-roaming

Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars (PlayStation Portable)
Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars
PSP 2009-10-20
Grand Theft Auto 2 (Dreamcast)
Grand Theft Auto 2
DC 2000-05-31
Evochron Renegades (Windows)
Evochron Renegades
WIN 2007
Urban Chaos (Windows)
Urban Chaos
WIN 1999
X Rebirth (Windows)
X Rebirth
WIN 2013-11-15
Driv3r: Undercover (Game Boy Advance)
Driv3r: Undercover
GBA 2005-10-14
War in Middle Earth (Apple IIGS)
War in Middle Earth
IIGS 1989
Burnout Paradise (PlayStation 3)
Burnout Paradise
PS3 2008-01-22
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories (PlayStation Portable)
Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City Stories
PSP 2005-10-25
Entropy (Windows)
Entropy
WIN TBA 2014
The Godfather: The Game (Windows)
The Godfather: The Game
WIN 2006-03-21
Red Dead Redemption (PlayStation 3)
Red Dead Redemption
PS3 2010-05-18

The first video game about Open world was released on December 1982.

Rockstar Games, Ubisoft and THQ has published most of these games

See also: sandbox game

Implied: (not enforceable)
* Seamless world
This is often mistaken to be synonymous with sandbox genre.

Non-linear games can also be open-ended but this is not a mandatory feature in them (not a defining feature at least).

Parent groups

Level design, Non-linear gameplay

Child group

Restricted open world

Related site

Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows 151
Linux 149
X360 44
PS3 39
Mac OS X 34
PS4 22
PS2 19
Xbox One 17
Xbox 15
MS-DOS 14
PS 7
PSP 6
Wii 5
Amiga 5
Atari ST 5
iOS 4
Android 4
PS Vita 4
Switch 3
Amstrad CPC 3
Mac OS Classic 3
NES 3
ZX Spectrum 3
GameCube 3
Dreamcast 3
C64 3
3DS 3
GBC 2
Nintendo DS 2
GBA 2

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