Top 175 BIGGEST Maps in Video Games

[@HowBigistheMap]

* I had to re-upload this video. The sound in the previous video was too quiet. I turned up the sound now. I'm so sorry for the deleted video and all the comments you wrote. This video and all your comments will be here forever. Thanks again for all the support!

[@Volkan_stcgl]

You're a true hero, you measure the maps for us I am super appreciated, thank you for existing bro

[@Lopuch64]

I appreciate the effort, it must be a ton of work. What I'd like to see (or rather hear!) in this kind of video is a mini review of each map. For example: about walking through Witcher 3 I enjoyed xxx but disliked yyy. Or maybe some info about means of transport in the game. In general I feel your videos could gain a lot if you spoke a bit more, especially because your voice is pretty good (even if sometimes you sound a tiny bit too enthusiastic :D)

[@ArjunSudhakar]

Always a fun to watch your videos! Can't waiting for Test Drive Solar Crown and see how it ranks up... I hope it gets top 20!

[@HowBigistheMap]

We'll find out In september this year :)

[@O.M-]

I hope they let us skip tests I'm sick of them

[@clintzieandromeda6216]

Open-world games with a massive map is much more interesting to me 💯.

[@mrunkut65]

What you do is absolutely incredible bro, wonderful work, it must take forever to do that!

[@bakeneko5343]

Amazing work. I love your channel

[@HowBigistheMap]

Thank you for the compliment!

[@O.M-]

2:47 I remember playing two worlds when i wasn't in the mood to reinstall and mod skyrim (because of a mod breaking it) It wasn't that bad of a game tho There are worse games But if they invested more time in voice acting, quests/story and character animations, the game could've had potential The map was pretty nice tho

[@ronnyrrr932]

These videos take so much work and patience lol no clue how u do it man 😄

[@RaiseAnchor]

Thank you for putting this together!

[@HowBigistheMap]

It was my pleasure!

[@rudy_4ier]

was expecting those space games around the top hahaha hopefully there's a way to mod a walking mode into microsoft flight simulator one day. Kerbal's home planet is roughly 1/10th the size of Earth, so it should roughly be 10 times longer in MFS?

[@darkigg]

While it does take a lot of effort, I'm not sure how accurate this way of calculating which map is bigger this way is.

[@HowBigistheMap]

The walking speed is different in all these games, I know. But I don't think there's a better way.

[@unreg6997]

Daggerfall and No Mans Sky are my favourites.

[@ericdanielski4802]

Nice video.

[@Holland1994D]

You have a ETS 2 with all the mods (like pro mods) which can make you drive for over 8 hours!

[@francescov6437]

Great video, you have try Space Engine?

[@HowBigistheMap]

Not yet, it's still on my long list though.

[@dogseye2864]

how did you measure Elden Ring then did you walk from caelid to the mountains following the half circle of the map?

[@HowBigistheMap]

I explain at the intro of this video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/jXmog2uOa8l_jqM

[@MisogynyMan]

Its a little complicated because anyone can create an endless map using random generation like Minecraft. So should they even count? Seems a bit like cheating. Then you have maps that are seemingly completely handcrafted. Then you have games that use a combination of randomly generated terrain that's later improved by hand (like Oblivion I believe). Where is the line of what games count? I could create a map bigger then all of these right now, but it would just be a vast empty space of nothingness. Obviously shouldn't count. What if I added some bushes and grass to it? Is that good enough to count? Even a random game like Minecraft has some handcrafted ingredients like the houses in the villages, very few games have no randomly generate aspects to them. Most games are some kind of mix. The Euro Truck Simulator 2 map is gigantic but is mostly empty space, only the areas around the roads are fully detailed because you can only move on the road, so should racing games even count unless you have the freedom to drive anywhere? In the end it doesn't really matter I guess. What matters the most is how fleshed out and detailed the map actually is. I wonder what the biggest and most detailed/interesting map out there is.

[@11D7-n8d]

15:32 🤣🤣🤣

[@HowBigistheMap]

Hahaha! Yeah, that's funny indeed.

[@Haihello625]

The music easily fits to that game

[@TheRebelTitan55]

7:25 Uhh...I think that looks more like crawling

[@HowBigistheMap]

You're always here with the real feedback. Thanks for that! You are right again. This is definitely crawling. Gonna correct that in the next top list. Thanks for your vigilance!

[@TheRebelTitan55]

@@HowBigistheMap YW as always

[@mayhudson]

im just starting the video but im betting on daggefall #1

[@strogonoffcore]

almost, almost, but only loses to *planet Earth, another planet, a literally infinite map, and another planet + 18,446,744,073,709,551,615 more*

[@BestAnimeFreak]

@@strogonoffcore The only one I would grand is bigger, would be Microsoft Flight Simulator. The other three ... eh ... they are all technically infinite maps ... Sure, infinite is bigger than Daggerfall, but I like my map sizes to be finite and compare them to other finite things xD

[@kozmoz5172]

No mans sky is just too insane

[@HowBigistheMap]

Absolutely!!

[@33jamesds]

Dying Light and Dying Light 2 aren't supremely gargantuan, but they should definitely make this list when you have a chance to add them.

[@HowBigistheMap]

The Dead Island and Dying Light games are awesome!! I love these games. The maps are very detailed and dense, but they aren't really big. I walked across the map in Dying Light in only 22 minutes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/pWfcZoWXmtGYldE

[@33jamesds]

@@HowBigistheMap Are you certain it's not a factor of the character's movement speed? The first Dying Light has 3 maps, and the 3rd one, which came with a dlc update, basically doubles the size of the entire game. The countryside in Dying Light 1 is several km from one side to the other, and even the city areas are similar in size, but the character moves quickly and the maps are broken up into 3 different areas defined by loading screens in between. Basically, if you add the walk time together for all 3 of those maps, there's no way it could possibly only be 22 minutes.....even as fast as Kyle's fast walking jog is. For dying like 2, the character literally only has run and sprint as options, and again, the two largest areas are separated by a loading screen, but if the character were to walk at the crawling pace you've defined as x1 walking, it would be impossible for the game to be that short. The larger of the two maps is roughly 1.5 km across at its longest point, and then the Old Villedor map is probably at least 1 km from one side to the other. Again though, I know the game map isn't massive, but I sincerely find it hard to believe that Skyrim, for example, is so much dramatically larger, that this game doesn't even compare. I think the character's movement speed is deceptive, but I freely admit that I could be overthinking this.

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@33jamesds Thanks for your clear explanation. But even if you double the time, 22 min. x 2 = 44 min, then it still can't be in this top 175. Nr. 175 in this list is 47 minutes. But I agree, the character in Skyrim is walking like an old criple snale.

[@33jamesds]

@@HowBigistheMap So how long did it take to walk between the two farthest points in The Countryside by itself? If your calculations are based only on character movement speed and not on the actual size of the map, I'm just not certain that all the variables are being properly factored in. Like State of Decay 2 and Dying Light both tell you in Meters how far things are apart, but if walking or crouching in State of Decay takes you longer to walk 1000 meters than it takes Kyle Crane to walk the same distance in Dying Light, well, do you kind of see my point? Lol. I suppose the literal amount of time it takes the character to get across the map based on the limitations placed on that character is an important factor, but if two games take a different amount of time for characters to cross a similar distance, I don't know that it's fair to say one is "bigger" than the other simply because it takes more real-world time to cross the distance. Like in real life, if I walk a mile or jog a mile, I still have a mile's worth of distance within which I have free range to move about as I will. I just think if the name of the channel is "How big is the map?" That the parameters of your focus might benefit from a bit more discussion. Other people mentioned that you might include voice over discussions of each experience that might shed some light on the nuance in these differences. For the record, I apologize if this sounds condescending at any point because that's not my intention.

[@33jamesds]

@@HowBigistheMap And I really appreciate your dedication to this endeavor btw! I would not have your patience, so kudos. Truly!

[@Volkan_stcgl]

As I played, AC Black Flag has a smaller map than True Crime Streets of LA (odd comparison but I played them both) are you sure black flag is bigger?

[@HowBigistheMap]

The map in AC Black Flag is one big ocean. Still though, this comparison isn't totally perfect because of the different speeds of the characters.

[@Volkan_stcgl]

@@HowBigistheMap True tho, Nick Kang sprints pretty fast

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@Volkan_stcgl Yep, and Edward Kenway is swimming very very very slow!

[@Volkan_stcgl]

@@HowBigistheMap He swims slow because he is heavy

[@Volkan_stcgl]

@@HowBigistheMap btw may you check my vid about finding the Hollywood sign in True Crime Streets of LA? It shows the map's size very well. You may like the video because of the map :)

[@h8GW]

No Man's Sky apparently has a shitton of tiny planets.

[@butters3542]

insane video

[@radekw-gh6ln]

19:28 - so ETS2 is the biggest driving game for now.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yep, with all the DLC that is.

[@radekw-gh6ln]

@@HowBigistheMap You should try it with mods for example Promods, Southern Region, RusMap, GreatStepe etc. The map the is then twice as big and it's more detailed (especially ProMods parts). The map is that big is nearly imposible to drive all the roads (it just takes to much time).

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@radekw-gh6ln Thanks for the tip!

[@ロンドン]

Hi! I'm Komu. so helpful and one of the valuable video in KZbin. thank you create n upload. If you don't mind, could you please post a time stamp list of names if you have one? If not, I will write it in my comment :)

[@HowBigistheMap]

I tried to write the time stamps and the game titles in the description, but KZbin said it were be too many letters. So if you want to write them in your comment, then that would be much appreciated!

[@pfroggy23]

FS2020 if you wanna count the world as a game map

[@HowBigistheMap]

FS2020 is at nr. 4

[@GamekNightPlays]

No Asheron's Call?

[@kozmoz5172]

Flight simulator surely would take much longer to walk💀💀

[@HowBigistheMap]

Yeah, I wish that was possible!

[@sie85]

try space engine, walk to the end of the universe

[@HowBigistheMap]

Can you walk in Space Engine?

[@sie85]

@@HowBigistheMap Propably but it would be nuts :)

[@HowBigistheMap]

@@sie85 Can you walk aroun a planet? I just walked around a planet in Space Engineers by the way.

[@sie85]

@@HowBigistheMap I pasted a youtube link earlier in the comments showing of walking speed in Space Engine, you can set the speed manually

[@yanivhristoforov]

How is Saints row 3 bigger than 4? It's the same map.

[@HowBigistheMap]

Saints Row took me 1 hour and 3 minutes and Saints Row 4 took me 1 hour and 2 minutes. So yes, they are about the same size. I think I wasted a minute somewhere.

[@rssoan1387]

Dead island?

[@HowBigistheMap]

Hahaha! I want to do that game for years now! One day it will be here. It's an awesome game. It's not one map, but the game has several smaller maps.

[@Dellamorte6]

Wow....do you even have time to PLAY these games? Or are you just walking around? 😄

[@HowBigistheMap]

I play the missions until I get access to the complete map in a game. Then I walk (run or drive) across the entire map and record it for a video. After that I uninstall the game and install the next open world game.

[@Dellamorte6]

Seems not very satisfying to me, but....everybody has his own way to happiness, I guess. 🙂 Anyway, I like watching these videos...very relaxing 😌 👍

[@FluxLemniskat]

@@Dellamorte6 I suppose that @How Big is the Map? also keeps playing some of those games in cases where they like the game on their own and not only for the YT content :-P

[@wonkawangleproductions8127]

is sea of thieves here ?

[@HowBigistheMap]

I tried to swim across that map but it wasn't possible. I sailed across the map. That took me 41 minutes.

[@wonkawangleproductions8127]

@@HowBigistheMap ok thanks 😊

[@raphI_I]

Minecraft is in my opinion the real biggest map

[@smoothyodaproductions4373]

Well its not really opinion based becuase technically no mans sky is bigger i mean there are over 200 galaxies each with tons of planets which are size accurate to how big an actual planet would be. Maybe im wrong about minecraft not being infinite but i saw a video about how if you travel far enough the game will lag and world generation will mess up

[@raphI_I]

@@smoothyodaproductions4373 technicaly minecraft can be infinite by procedural map like No man's sky (and all procedural map ...)