Exploration

Large open world with many secrets, puzzles, and varied biomes encourages discovery.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and manipulating past and present environments.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring new areas, uncovering secrets, and backtracking with new abilities.

Nonlinear world maps, secret areas, and hidden collectibles motivate players to discover new content and revisit levels.

Large open world with many hidden locations, secrets, and side quests promotes curiosity-driven discovery.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, chests, and secrets in a large open world.

Large handcrafted maps with many secrets, hidden areas, and collectibles strongly motivate exploration.

Features diverse, hand-crafted dungeons and a detailed urban environment encouraging discovery and curiosity.

Players explore diverse themed worlds and hidden secrets, with incentives to discover all collectibles.

Highly praised for its large, vertical, and interconnected map encouraging discovery and freedom.

Large open world with many secrets, puzzles, and seasonal changes to discover.

Players explore multiple detailed environments, uncover secrets, and navigate complex, shifting worlds.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden treasures without a map, encouraging curiosity.

Exploration of a procedurally generated world, dungeons, and discovery of secrets is a core gameplay element.

The game encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and shortcuts across multiple distinct worlds.

The trilogy features extensive galaxy exploration, discovering new planets, lore, and secrets.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring new, randomly generated dungeons and uncovering secrets and items.

Large, detailed world with many side quests and hidden content supports discovery and curiosity.

Large open world with diverse areas and hidden items encourages discovery and curiosity-driven play.

The game features diverse, distinct chapters and environments with secrets and puzzles that reward curiosity.

Exploration is rewarded through discovering secrets, hidden areas, and Kinstone fusions that open new content.

Levels designed as open areas with many secrets, collectibles, and alternate paths to discover.

Dense world with secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourages discovery and revisiting areas.

Exploration of detailed environments like the police station and sewers is a core gameplay element.