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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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High exploration scores, with status at +0 or below.
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+4.0
Air Marty
Multiple branching paths and 65 endings promote discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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+4.0
Bewitching Sinners
Includes map exploration, side quests, and discovery of secrets and lore enhancing curiosity-driven activities.
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+4.0
Elsinore
Players discover new story branches, character secrets, and hidden endings through repeated playthroughs.
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+4.0
Evil Nun: The Broken Mask
Large maps with multiple areas and secrets encourage discovery and curiosity-driven exploration.
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+4.0
Gaucho and the Grassland
Open world with multiple biomes, hidden locations, and folklore-inspired areas encourages discovery and curiosity.
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+4.0
子夜之章:历史的终局～MidNights of Desperado～
Exploration of a large, detailed world with hidden lore, side quests, and environmental storytelling.
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+4.0
TetherGeist
Strong emphasis on discovering hidden areas, secrets, and collectibles throughout levels and towns.
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+4.0
The Endless Empty
Exploration of surreal, fragmented mind environments with symbolic and abstract areas encourages discovery.
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+4.0
The Room Syndrome
Players discover new areas, secrets, and story elements through exploration of the room and timelines.
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+4.0
Titanium Court
Players uncover mysteries, secrets, and narrative layers gradually, driven by curiosity and discovery.
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+4.0
TR-49
The core gameplay involves discovering new archive entries and piecing together hidden lore, encouraging…
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+4.0
Castlevania: Harmony of Dissonance
Nonlinear castle with two overlapping versions encourages discovery and re-exploration.
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+4.0
Above Snakes: Prologue
Exploration is core, with unlocking and discovering new biomes and map tiles, encouraging curiosity-driven activities.
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+4.0
City Bus Manager
Players explore real-world cities worldwide, discovering new maps and customizing routes.
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+4.0
Dig or Die
Exploration of vertical and underground biomes is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Nexomon: Extinction
Open world with many areas to revisit, secrets to find, and encouragement to explore and re-explore.
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+4.0
3030 Deathwar Redux - A Space Odyssey
Large open galaxy with many star systems, derelict ships, and stations to discover.
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+4.0
8-Bit Adventures 2
Game rewards exploration with secrets, side quests, and hidden items; world is large with varied environments and…
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+4.0
Beyond The Edge Of Owlsgard
Large maps and many interactable objects encourage discovery and curiosity-driven exploration.
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+4.0
Cooking Companions
Players discover new story elements, secrets, and lore by exploring different dialogue paths and replaying the game.
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+4.0
Follow the meaning
Encouraged to discover hidden cats, secrets, and new areas within the surreal game world.
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+4.0
Foolish Mortals
The game encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and story elements across an island and manor setting.
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+4.0
Little Mouse's Encyclopedia
Core gameplay revolves around discovering and learning about flora and fauna in four distinct biomes.
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+4.0
Little Witch in the Woods
Game encourages discovering new biomes, secrets, and collecting diverse flora and fauna.
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