Version 5.2.0

World Explorer 3D

Bring your companion, choose a real place, and build an Explorer story across living streets, fields, oceans, airports, planets, and deep space.

Explore the world Release notes

One connected experience

One sandbox, from the harbor to the stars.

Walk, drive, fly, sail, fish, survey, build, and meet other players inside bounded worlds shaped by available terrain, roads, buildings, water, land cover, and places. A shared Explorer Journal, regional Field Guide, Backpack, quick slots, Expeditions, specialties, and companions carry your story across the whole game.

World Explorer in action

Current gameplay.

These images come from the current game, from its redesigned living world and Explorer record to ports, airports, and deep space.

An explorer and dog beside the current BMW, pedestrians, and traffic in World Explorer 3D — **A more living world**Your Explorer and dog share the streets with current vehicles, nearby pedestrians, traffic, mapped places, and the systems that make those places useful.

Field Today in My Explorer — **My Explorer**Field Today, Journal, Guide, Backpack, Expeditions, specialties, and companion progress in one record.

Personal aircraft at BWI — **Air travel**Use a personal aircraft or board planes and helicopters at mapped aviation facilities.

Container cargo ship underway near Rotterdam — **Ports and oceans**Pilot boats and ships, navigate harbors, keep nearby shores visible, fish, and dive.

Wayfinder approach to Sagittarius A star — **Space**Fly manually or use optional Wayfinder assistance across planetary and deep-space destinations.

Built for touch as well as desktop

Carry the Explorer into the world.

Touch controls, quick slots, the Backpack, field activities, fishing, maps, and recovery are arranged for phone play without turning the game into a different mobile-only version.

One player record: Journal, Guide, Backpack, companion, and activity progress use the same game systems on desktop and mobile.

Configurable Backpack quick slots on a phone — Configure the Backpack

Shore fishing in Baltimore on a phone — Fish from the waterfront

Explorer, companion, pedestrians, and vehicles in World Explorer 3D

Earth

Search for a place, then walk, drive, meet people, use mapped services, survey, build, and play inside one bounded local world.

Water

Shorelines, marinas, large ports, playable vessels, fishing, diving, waves, and underwater exploration.

Air

Personal aircraft, airport fleets, helicopters, flight controls, rooftop landing, and skydiving.

Space

Manual flight, optional assistance, planetary entry, and the Interstellar Expeditions Alpha aboard Solis Reach.

Built from real context

Global data, presented as a playable world.

Earth scenes use OpenStreetMap-derived geometry and other attributed public datasets. Live Earth separates observed aircraft, satellites, earthquakes, and water levels from modeled weather, marine guidance, predictions, and reference-only layers.

Data sources Attribution Known limitations

Open the live application

Choose a place and enter the world.

Launch World Explorer 3D