Exploration

Exploration of underground dungeons and surface areas is a core gameplay element with rewards for discovery.

Large handcrafted world with many secrets, dungeons, and hidden treasures encourages discovery.

Large maps with many secrets and hidden upgrades encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Game encourages discovering hidden areas, secret levels, and collectibles across multiple worlds.

Game emphasizes discovery of new environments, secrets, and lore through visual storytelling.

Large open world with many islands, secrets, and vertical level design encourages discovery and curiosity.

The game encourages detailed exploration of richly detailed crime scenes to discover clues and piece together stories.

Large open world with multiple regions and villages to discover; players enjoy exploring diverse environments and…

Procedural level generation and hidden secrets motivate players to discover new areas and content.

Large interconnected maps with many secrets, backtracking, and puzzles encourage extensive exploration.

Metroidvania overworld encourages discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles.

The game encourages discovering new areas, secrets, and alternate paths in richly detailed environments.

Strong emphasis on discovering new islands, treasures, and interacting with diverse characters and environments.

Large underwater map with varied biomes and hidden items; exploration is a core part of gameplay despite some…

Open world encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and quests; exploration is a core motivation.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and content in a vast open world.

Game rewards discovery of new areas, secrets, and backtracking with upgrades.

Large interconnected maps with many shortcuts, secrets, and hidden items encourage curiosity-driven exploration.

Large interconnected maps with shortcuts, secrets, and layered environments encourage discovery.

Large mansion and multiple areas with backtracking and item discovery encourage exploration.

Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, backtracking with new abilities, and exploring multiple islands.

Large variety of user-created worlds and maps encourage discovery and exploration.

Large open world with ports, islands, hidden treasures, and dynamic weather encourages discovery.

Large town with many hidden collectibles and secrets encourages curiosity-driven exploration.