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Autonomy
Being in control of actions and decisions (e.g. freedom to play how you want)
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Top picks
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
Sephiria
Players have significant control over builds, weapon upgrades, and inventory management, allowing personal…
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+4.0
Strange Horticulture
Players have freedom to organize plants, choose which customers to help or harm, and decide story outcomes with…
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+4.0
Symphony of War: The Nephilim Saga
Players have extensive freedom to customize squads, unit classes, and army composition, enabling self-directed…
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+4.0
ABZU
Players freely explore underwater environments with fluid movement and minimal constraints, allowing personal pacing…
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+4.0
Aimtastic
Players can customize sensitivity, crosshair, and settings extensively, allowing control over training experience.
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+4.0
Bad North: Jotunn Edition
Players have control over unit deployment, positioning, and strategic decisions on each island, with freedom to adapt…
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+4.0
Baldur's Gate: Enhanced Edition
Players have freedom to explore a large open world, choose their own party composition, and make meaningful decisions…
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+4.0
Car Mechanic Simulator 2015
Players have control over diagnosing, repairing, and customizing cars, with skill upgrades and business management…
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+4.0
Dead Space
Players have freedom to explore the Ishimura ship, choose weapons and upgrade paths, and make strategic combat…
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+4.0
Hyper Light Drifter
Players freely explore a non-linear world with minimal guidance and choose their own path and playstyle.
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+4.0
Luck be a Landlord
Players make strategic choices about which symbols and items to add or remove from their slot machine, adapting builds…
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+4.0
Mage Arena
Players have freedom to choose spells, strategies, and playstyles with voice-activated casting and crafting.
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+4.0
Out There Somewhere
Players have control over their actions and decisions, using a teleport gun mechanic to solve puzzles and navigate…
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+4.0
Super Auto Pets
Players have freedom to choose pets, build teams, and decide strategies each round with many viable options and pivots.
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+4.0
Animal Revolt Battle Simulator
Players have high freedom to create and customize units, maps, and battles with minimal constraints.
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+4.0
Blood™ Fresh Supply
Players have freedom to explore levels, choose weapons, and use alternate fire modes; gameplay encourages tactical…
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+4.0
Cairn
Players control each limb individually with options for manual or automatic limb selection, allowing personal…
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+4.0
Cassette Beasts
Players have freedom to explore an open world, customize movesets freely, adjust difficulty, and choose companions and…
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+4.0
Cats and Seek: Osaka
Players freely choose colors for background, cats, and outlines, and can decide when to use hints or speedrun modes…
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+4.0
Cats and Seek: Tokyo
Players freely explore detailed scenes and choose how to find cats, customize colors, cursors, music, and use photo and…
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+4.0
Chicken Hill
Players freely explore scenes, make choices affecting endings, and interact with many hidden objects, indicating high…
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+4.0
Creeper World 4
Players have freedom to build, position, and move towers, choose strategies, and solve puzzles in multiple ways.
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+4.0
Dead Estate
Players can choose from multiple unique characters with distinct playstyles and unlockables, and have freedom in item…
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+4.0
Dungeons of Dredmor
Players have extensive freedom to customize characters with 7 skill trees chosen from dozens, enabling unique builds…
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