Exploration

Emphasis on discovering secrets, exploring a fully connected world, and uncovering hidden content.

Large open world with secrets, dungeons, and varied environments encourages curiosity-driven discovery.

Core gameplay involves discovering new star systems, anomalies, and secrets in a procedurally generated galaxy.

Open world encourages discovery of secrets, hidden areas, and spontaneous adventures.

Large open world with many secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourages discovery.

Strong focus on discovering new biomes, secrets, and surreal environments.

Open world with puzzles, secrets, collectibles, and varied environments encourages discovery and curiosity.

Large, varied map with secrets, puzzles, and changing layouts encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering secrets, collectibles, and new areas within richly themed levels.

Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking in large maps.

Large, detailed world with many secrets and biomes encourages extensive discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Highly praised interconnected map with many secrets, shortcuts, and optional bosses; encourages thorough exploration.

Large open island with varied environments and many secrets encourages extensive discovery.

World design rewards thorough exploration with secrets, optional bosses, collectibles, and hidden areas.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in a maze-like interconnected world.

Exploration of beautiful, expansive realms and discovery of hidden areas is a core part of the experience.

Open world sailing and discovery of ports, dungeons, secrets, and lore is a core and rewarding gameplay element.

Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, backtracking, and uncovering hidden content in a large, maze-like world.

Game world is large with many secrets, hidden paths, and encourages thorough exploration.

Core gameplay involves discovering new tomb layouts, secrets, puzzles, and artifacts in randomized environments.

Large, detailed environments with many secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourage thorough exploration.

Handcrafted island world with many secrets, caves, and locations encourages thorough exploration.

Exploration is a core element with many hidden locations, secrets, and lore to discover.

Exploration is a core gameplay element with large open levels and many hidden secrets.