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Autonomy
Being in control of actions and decisions (e.g. freedom to play how you want)
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Popular, well-rated games with a strong autonomy score.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Autonomy affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Ambition: A Minuet in Power
Players make many choices that affect story, relationships, and political influence, showing high personal freedom and…
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+4.0
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Players have freedom to explore, experiment, and discover survival mechanics on their own without hand-holding or fixed…
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+4.0
Another World – 20th Anniversary Edition
Players must figure out puzzles and actions on their own without guidance, allowing freedom in problem solving despite…
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+4.0
Assault Bots
Players can freely customize and build their own bots with various weapons and movement types, allowing personal…
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+4.0
Astrometica
Players have freedom to explore, build bases, upgrade equipment, and choose their own progression path in an open space…
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+4.0
Beautiful Japanese Scenery - Animated Jigsaws
Players freely choose puzzles, piece counts, and can control pace and difficulty.
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+4.0
Beyond Galaxyland
Players can explore multiple planets, choose party members, and decide which side quests to pursue, showing control…
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+4.0
CaseCracker3
Players have significant control over investigation process, choosing which clues to search, whom to question, and how…
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+4.0
Children of the Nile: Enhanced Edition
Players have significant control over city planning, building placement, and resource management, with freedom to shape…
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+4.0
Dark Roll
Players freely control the ball's movement and decisions on how to solve puzzles and navigate levels.
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+4.0
Deadline Escape
Players have freedom to choose loadouts, difficulty settings, and playstyle; decisions impact survival and progression.
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+4.0
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Players can choose classes, builds, weapons, and explore the world non-linearly with multiple paths and endings…
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+4.0
Debugging Hero
Players have significant control over manipulating game variables and customizing their approach to combat, reflecting…
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+4.0
Decisive Campaigns: Barbarossa
Players act as high command generals with significant freedom to make strategic, political, and logistical decisions…
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+4.0
Din's Curse
Players have extensive control over character builds, class hybrids, skill point allocation, and world generation…
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+4.0
Everafter Falls
Players have freedom to explore, choose quests, and manage farming and combat at their own pace with minimal…
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+4.0
Filament
Players can freely explore the spaceship and choose which puzzle clusters to tackle in any order, supporting personal…
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+4.0
Flotsam
Players direct their floating town's expansion, resource gathering, and movement on the world map with freedom.
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+4.0
Forsaken Remastered
Players can choose from multiple characters with different stats and customize controls extensively, allowing personal…
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+4.0
FOUNDRY
Players have freedom to build factories, choose layouts, and direct their own automation with modular buildings and…
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+4.0
Galacticare
Players have freedom to build and decorate hospitals, choose doctors and strategies, and manage resources with some…
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+4.0
Gunbrella
Players have freedom to explore areas, choose dialogue options affecting story, and use the versatile gunbrella for…
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+4.0
Hand of Doom
Players freely explore levels, solve puzzles, and combine runes to cast spells manually without handholding or strict…
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+4.0
Imperium Romanum Gold Edition
Players have freedom to build and manage cities with various strategies and choices, including economic and military…
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