Find your kind of game
Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
Explore another motivation
Exploration + Fantasy
A strong dose of exploration and fantasy in the same game.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Exploration affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
-
+5.0
The Quest
Large handcrafted open world with many secrets, dungeons, and locations to discover.
-
+5.0
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Strong metroidvania elements with large interconnected map, secrets, multiple paths, and rewards for exploration.
-
+5.0
Doodle Champion Island Games
Open-world design with multiple biomes, hidden secrets, and side quests strongly encourages discovery and curiosity.
-
+5.0
Blade Kitten
Large, labyrinthine levels with many hidden collectibles and alternate paths strongly encourage exploration.
-
+5.0
Unexplored
Core motivation is discovering new floors, secrets, puzzles, and environments in each procedurally generated run.
-
+5.0
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in procedurally generated maps.
-
+5.0
Creator of Another World
Procedurally generated worlds, towns, dungeons, and quests encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.
-
+5.0
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Large open world with procedurally generated dungeons and many locations to discover.
-
+5.0
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Core gameplay involves uncovering new map areas, exploring diverse locations, solving puzzles, and discovering lore and…
-
+5.0
BLACKTAIL
Open world with many secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourages extensive exploration.
-
+5.0
Ocean's Heart
Strong emphasis on exploring a large world with many secrets, side quests, and hidden areas.
-
+5.0
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™
Open world with vast biomes, hidden areas, collectibles, and encouragement to discover new locations.
-
+5.0
EverQuest II
Huge game world with many zones and hidden quests; exploration is a core motivation and praised feature.
-
+5.0
The Matchless Kungfu
Players discover new map tiles, unlock secrets, and expand their world in a non-linear fashion.
-
+5.0
Kingdom Shell
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities.
-
+5.0
Last Dream
Large open world with many locations, secrets, side quests, and puzzles encourages discovery.
-
+5.0
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Open world encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and quests; exploration is a core motivation.
-
+5.0
The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
Encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and quests with a large world to explore.
-
+5.0
BioGun
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with map upgrades.
-
+5.0
Catmaze
Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, backtracking, and exploring a large interconnected map.
-
+5.0
Gedonia 2
Open world with secrets, puzzles, and multiple quest outcomes encourages discovery.
-
+5.0
Swordbreaker The Game
Exploring a large castle with many rooms and hidden scenes is a core motivation.
-
+5.0
Avernum 3: Ruined World
The game features a huge open world with many hidden dungeons, secrets, and optional quests encouraging discovery.
-
+5.0
Eador: Genesis
Exploration of provinces, dungeons, and random events is a core gameplay element driving discovery and curiosity.
Same motivation, different experiences
Your way to play
Explore different sides of exploration, grouped by what players enjoy.
Fine-tune your next game
A little more you
Mix in another motivation, or find an experience with less of something else.