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Popular, well-rated games with a strong exploration score.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
BLACKTAIL
Open world with many secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourages extensive exploration.
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+5.0
Interstellar Space: Genesis
Exploration is a core feature with multi-layered scanning, discovery of hidden systems, and ongoing curiosity-driven…
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+5.0
Knytt Underground
Core motivation is discovering a vast, interconnected world full of secrets and lore.
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+5.0
Ocean's Heart
Strong emphasis on exploring a large world with many secrets, side quests, and hidden areas.
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+5.0
Wanderer
Game encourages discovery of new time periods, environments, and secrets.
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+5.0
Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora™
Open world with vast biomes, hidden areas, collectibles, and encouragement to discover new locations.
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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
EverQuest II
Huge game world with many zones and hidden quests; exploration is a core motivation and praised feature.
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+5.0
The Matchless Kungfu
Players discover new map tiles, unlock secrets, and expand their world in a non-linear fashion.
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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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