Open world survival games where your objective is to travel a long distance to an end location.

The game Peak meets this description, but I am looking for more horizontal games :)

Basically, just like a game with normal survival mechanics like open world, hunger and thirst, inventory management, environmental hazards, except you beat the game by partaking on a Journey from one corner of the (very large) map to the other corner. Many survival games have a story where you have to acquire items, open doors, defeat bosses, etc in some order that have you revisiting locations around the map, but I'm looking for a game where simply getting to the place is the challenge. Bonus points if it's a roguelike. Randomly generated or hand-crafted worlds, both are alright with me.

Whenever I watch the LoTR movies, I think about how it would be a neat game to take a grueling journey across the continent like that.

Posted Dec 7, 2025, 4:52 AM UTC

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