Exploration

Game encourages thorough exploration of richly detailed and varied environments with secrets and side quests.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring a hex map, discovering new areas, quests, and secrets.

Core motivation is exploring Mars surface, underground caves, and discovering story secrets.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, hidden routes, and secrets within the maze-like forest.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and dynamic world changes.

Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and story elements through detailed environmental exploration.

Exploration of a large, interconnected castle environment is a key gameplay element.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with a large, varied map

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, puzzles, and interacting with the environment.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, piecing together story fragments scattered across a huge map.

Large handcrafted solar system with many planets, stations, and secrets to discover; exploration is a core feature.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in a large open world.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in the village.

Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden stars, and revisiting levels to find all collectibles.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and lore through careful exploration.

Game heavily rewards exploration with many secret rooms, hidden items, and side quests.

Large open world with no map encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and lore through player-driven exploration.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring a large, procedurally generated mine.

Core gameplay is exploring photographic dreamscapes and discovering hidden elements.

Large open world with many secrets, puzzles, and varied biomes encourages discovery.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and manipulating past and present environments.

Large, twisting map with many secrets, hidden paths, and environmental storytelling strongly encourages discovery.

Nonlinear world maps, secret areas, and hidden collectibles motivate players to discover new content and revisit levels.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, collectibles, and alternate paths in open world environments.