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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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Exploration + Autonomy
A strong dose of exploration and autonomy in the same game.
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+5.0
Empyrion - Galactic Survival
Core motivation is exploring vast procedurally generated planets, star systems, and points of interest.
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+5.0
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Exploring a large, detailed prehistoric environment is a major focus and source of enjoyment.
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+5.0
Death's Gambit: Afterlife
Strong metroidvania elements with large interconnected map, secrets, multiple paths, and rewards for exploration.
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+5.0
Song of the Deep
Core motivation is exploring a large, varied underwater map with many hidden treasures and secrets.
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+5.0
Doodle Champion Island Games
Open-world design with multiple biomes, hidden secrets, and side quests strongly encourages discovery and curiosity.
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+5.0
Everwind
Core gameplay loop revolves around discovering new floating islands, biomes, dungeons, and secrets.
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+5.0
Ittle Dew 2+
Strong emphasis on exploring a large open world with many secrets, hidden caves, and optional dungeons.
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+5.0
looK INside - Chapter 1
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and details within the scrapbook pages.
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+5.0
Morels: The Hunt
Core motivation is discovering new areas, hidden mushrooms, secret animals, and collectibles across diverse maps.
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+5.0
Phoenotopia: Awakening
Core motivation is discovering secrets, new areas, and backtracking with new abilities
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+5.0
Reveal The Deep
Core gameplay revolves around exploring the sunken ship and discovering hidden notes and secrets.
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+5.0
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new biomes, secrets, and collectibles in a vast open world.
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+5.0
Unexplored
Core motivation is discovering new floors, secrets, puzzles, and environments in each procedurally generated run.
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+5.0
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in procedurally generated maps.
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+5.0
Fugl
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new biomes, animals, and flying through diverse landscapes.
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+5.0
Soul Searching
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new islands, uncovering stories, and collecting resources in an unknown world.
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+5.0
The Slaverian Trucker
Large open world with rewards for exploring off beaten paths and discovering secrets.
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+5.0
TRI: Of Friendship and Madness
Large, imaginative levels with many secrets and hidden collectibles encourage thorough exploration.
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+5.0
LEGO® Worlds
Exploring diverse biomes, worlds, and hidden items is a major part of gameplay.
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+5.0
The Elder Scrolls: Arena
Large open world with procedurally generated dungeons and many locations to discover.
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+5.0
Last Drop
Large, detailed open world with many hidden locations and no GPS; exploration is a core motivation.
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+5.0
Regions of Ruin: Runegate
Core gameplay involves uncovering new map areas, exploring diverse locations, solving puzzles, and discovering lore and…
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+5.0
0°N 0°W
Core motivation is discovering and wandering through diverse surreal environments.
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+5.0
BLACKTAIL
Open world with many secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourages extensive exploration.
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