10 Biggest Open World Maps In Video Games

9: Final Fantasy 15 - 700 Square Miles

Final Fantasy 15 is a game with gigantic swords and a boss who measures almost 800 feet across so it stands to reason it’d have a pretty darn big map, and it does!

Square Enix’s 2016 entry into the long-running franchise offers up the biggest explorable world in the series so far. The game takes place within the world of Eos which is divided up into four nations on two continents. You can make your way through the game on foot or atop a handsome Chocobo if you like, but you’ll probably want to opt for your sweet ride, the Regalia. Admittedly, some areas on the map are made impassable by mountainous terrain, and the game received some flak for the sparsity of some of the traversable areas.

While including the non-traversable regions has the game world stretch to about 750 square miles, factoring those out brings us closer to 700 square miles.

Unlike some of the other games on this list that mostly focus on one mechanic and build a giant emptier world around that because the genre allows for it, FF15 also needed to build meaningful narrative elements, compelling relationships between its characters, and a nuanced RPG and combat system. With all that considered, the size of the game world is extra impressive.

The game world also consists of a bunch of different ecosystems to explore and you could do a lot worse for your fantasy road trip simulator.