15 Best Open-World Video Games Of The Decade

11. Death Stranding

Death Stranding has only been out for a little while, and is surely going to be one of the most divisive entries on this list, but the way it treats its open world is so unique and satisfying.

You could boil the whole thing down to merely being Fetch Quests: The Game, but Sony's exclusive is more about the journey than the destination.

At first, the idea of getting to the other end of America seems like an insurmountable task. The landscape is large, untamed and hostile, and initially it takes so much effort to connect even a couple of settlements.

However, it's how the player gains mastery over that space, and makes a world that once felt impossibly big small, that makes the loop so captivating.

Creating your own network of roads, ziplines and bridges, helped by structures built by other players, awards the game with a real sense of progression, and drives home the fact that, even if you never see them in the flesh, you and everyone else are all in this together. Insert a High School Musical joke here.