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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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Games where exploration stands out from the other motivations.
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+5.0
A Hat in Time
Game strongly emphasizes discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles across diverse, imaginative worlds.
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+5.0
Cirno! Lifts a Boulder
Core gameplay revolves around discovering collectibles, secrets, and hidden frogs in a compact but detailed world.
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+5.0
Find Matt's Cats
Game emphasizes discovering new objects, secrets, and interactive elements across many handcrafted levels.
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+5.0
Goat Simulator 3
Large open world with many hidden items, quests, and surprises encourages exploration.
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+5.0
Omno: Prologue
Core gameplay revolves around exploring varied environments, discovering secrets, and interacting with fauna.
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+5.0
Submachine: Legacy
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and revisiting locations with new insights.
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+4.0
For Sale
Exploring the house, discovering secrets, and finding collectibles are core gameplay elements.
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+5.0
CULTIC
Level design encourages discovery of secrets and non-linear paths; exploration is a core part of gameplay.
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+5.0
Fallen Aces
Levels are large, non-linear, with many secrets and alternate routes encouraging discovery.
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+5.0
GlitchSPANKR
Strong emphasis on finding secrets, hidden lore, and exploring branching storylines and multiple endings.
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+5.0
Lost and Found Co.
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and interactive details in richly illustrated scenes.
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+5.0
Subside
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new underwater environments, hidden collectibles, and secrets.
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+5.0
The New Flesh
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden collectibles in a surreal environment.
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+5.0
The Spirit and the Mouse
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in a multi-layered village environment.
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+5.0
Voices of the Void
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and events in a richly detailed and mysterious environment.
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+5.0
Yellow Taxi Goes Vroom
Game encourages discovering secrets, hidden collectibles, and exploring varied, creative levels.
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+5.0
Big Walk
Large open world with many secrets and landmarks encourages curiosity-driven discovery.
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+5.0
Depanneur Nocturne
Core motivation is discovering hidden areas, secrets, and lore within the store and its backrooms.
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+5.0
Flock
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new creatures and unlocking new regions by exploration.
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+5.0
Gecko Gods
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in a richly detailed open world.
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+5.0
Paradise Marsh
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, finding critters, secrets, and interacting with the environment in a…
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+5.0
Shadows Over Loathing
Large, varied maps with many secrets and side quests encourage curiosity-driven discovery.
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+5.0
Well Dweller
Exploration is a core element with diverse biomes, secrets, collectibles, and rewarding backtracking.
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+5.0
Approaching Infinity
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new planets, shipwrecks, caves, and secrets.
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