Exploration

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and interacting with the environment at one's own pace.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring detailed environments, discovering hidden objects, and uncovering stories.

Core gameplay involves discovering new ports, treasures, and land expeditions across a large open world.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new zones, secrets, artifacts, and environmental storytelling.

Core gameplay involves discovering new cities, secrets, and storylines in a vast, surreal world.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story through environmental cues.

Core gameplay revolves around navigating large, complex mazes and discovering secrets, with procedural generation…

Highly praised interconnected world with secrets, backtracking, and metroidvania elements encourage extensive…

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden collectibles across diverse and large environments.

Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, interacting with statues, and uncovering hidden messages.

Huge open world with maze-like dungeons, hidden secrets, and non-linear progression

Massive interconnected map with many secrets and backtracking; core motivation is discovery.

Game world is dense, handcrafted, and rewards curiosity with secrets, loot, and lore in every nook and cranny.

Large open world with many secrets, quests, and locations encourages extensive exploration.

Core gameplay is discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in the Abyss; players repeatedly explore layered environments.

Huge seamless open world with many biomes, hidden areas, and secrets to discover.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and content in a vast open world.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story elements in a large, open, voxel-based…

Core motivation is exploring a large, detailed, and interconnected world full of secrets and lore.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and growing the environment.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new islands, interacting with environments, and uncovering secrets.

Core motivation is discovering real-world locations, revisiting familiar places, and exploring new areas virtually.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, shortcuts, and interconnected world design.

Large open world with no automatic map; players must explore and chart territory manually.