10 Biggest Open World Maps In Video Games

By Jess McDonell / February 22, 2022

2: Minecraft – 1.5 Billion Square Miles

While Minecraft doesn’t cover the whole entire planet, it is vastly bigger than Microsoft Flight Simulator because of our old friend procedural generation.

While it’s tricky to determine the game’s precise size due to the way the map is created, it’s safe to just go with ‘freaking enormous’ and call it a day. The environment is generated as you move and generated maps are unique so your newly created world won’t be a carbon copy of anybody else's. Everything may be made out of blocks but there are blocks for snow, for rainforests, stone, and just about every other environment you can imagine.

Minecraft is a sandbox playground dream so it makes sense that you won’t be hitting any limits on how much you can build and explore.