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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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High exploration scores, with status at +0 or below.
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+5.0
Deus Ex: Mankind Divided
Large, detailed hub city and multiple locations encourage extensive exploration and discovery of secrets and side…
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+5.0
Below the Stone
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new cave areas, mining resources, and uncovering secrets.
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+5.0
Environmental Station Alpha
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and solving cryptic puzzles
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+5.0
Hakoniwa Explorer Plus
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and interacting with NPCs to unlock new locations.
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+5.0
Kingdom Shell
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities.
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+5.0
La-Mulana
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together clues across a huge map.
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+5.0
Last Dream
Large open world with many locations, secrets, side quests, and puzzles encourages discovery.
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+5.0
Full Bore
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in a large interconnected map.
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+5.0
The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Remastered
Open world encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and quests; exploration is a core motivation.
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+5.0
Bad Mojo Redux
Core gameplay revolves around exploring a detailed, pre-rendered environment from a cockroach perspective.
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+5.0
Don't open the doors!
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new doors, dungeons, secrets, and collectibles in a richly detailed world.
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+5.0
High Sea Saga DX
Exploration of uncharted seas, discovering islands, secrets, and dynamic events is a core and highly praised feature.
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+5.0
Hyperbolica
Core gameplay is discovering and navigating vast, unusual hyperbolic and spherical environments.
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+5.0
Lone Fungus
Core gameplay centers on discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities; large interconnected map.
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+5.0
The Black Grimoire: Cursebreaker
Encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and quests with a large world to explore.
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+5.0
X2: The Threat
Huge universe with many sectors and secrets to discover.
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+5.0
Yooka-Laylee and the Impossible Lair
Strong emphasis on exploring the overworld, finding secrets, collectibles, and unlocking alternate versions of levels.
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+5.0
BioGun
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with map upgrades.
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+5.0
Catmaze
Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, backtracking, and exploring a large interconnected map.
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+5.0
Hiiro
Core gameplay is centered on discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden collectibles across diverse biomes.
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+5.0
Someday You'll Return: Director's Cut
Core gameplay revolves around exploring a large, detailed forest and various locations, discovering secrets and…
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+5.0
Unbox: Newbie's Adventure
Large open worlds with many secrets and collectibles strongly encourage exploration.
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+5.0
Gedonia 2
Open world with secrets, puzzles, and multiple quest outcomes encourages discovery.
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+5.0
No Players Online
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and narrative clues within the virtual desktop and game world.
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