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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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Exploration + Story
A strong dose of exploration and story in the same game.
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+5.0
The Solus Project
Core gameplay is focused on discovering new areas, secrets, and lore.
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+5.0
I Am Dead
Core gameplay revolves around exploring detailed environments, discovering hidden objects, and uncovering stories.
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+5.0
A House of Many Doors
Core gameplay involves discovering new cities, secrets, and storylines in a vast, surreal world.
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+5.0
Aporia: Beyond The Valley
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story through environmental cues.
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+5.0
Equinox: Homecoming
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and environmental storytelling in a large, detailed open world.
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+5.0
Poptropica
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new islands, interacting with environments, and uncovering secrets.
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+5.0
The Path
Core gameplay revolves around exploring the forest and discovering hidden items and symbolic locations.
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+5.0
Fallen Tear: The Ascension
Core gameplay revolves around discovering secrets, backtracking with new skills, and uncovering hidden routes.
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+5.0
Fabled Lands
Open world with many locations, secrets, and quests to discover; exploration is a core gameplay element.
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+5.0
KOBOLD: Chapter I
Core motivation is exploring a detailed, photorealistic environment and uncovering story clues.
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+5.0
Stygian: Outer Gods
Exploration is a core element with a semi-open world, secrets, puzzles, and backtracking to previously inaccessible…
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+5.0
ELEX
Large handcrafted open world with many secrets and varied biomes to discover
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+5.0
Spirits of Xanadu
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, audio logs, and piecing together story elements.
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+5.0
Home is Where One Starts...
Core gameplay is free exploration of a detailed environment to uncover memories and narrative pieces.
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+5.0
Outcast - Second Contact
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in a large open world.
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+5.0
Realms of the Haunting
Large, interconnected levels with many secrets and areas to discover encourage curiosity-driven exploration.
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+5.0
Goetia
Players explore over 100 detailed rooms and multiple outdoor areas, uncovering clues and secrets.
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+4.0
Undertale Yellow
Players explore new and familiar Underground areas, uncover secrets, and solve puzzles.
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+5.0
Sea Dogs: To Each His Own
Large open world with many islands and secrets; players enjoy discovering new locations and quests.
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+5.0
Anachronox
Game encourages thorough exploration of richly detailed and varied environments with secrets and side quests.
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+5.0
The Last Case of Benedict Fox Definitive Edition
Exploration of a large, detailed, and mysterious world is a core motivation.
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+5.0
Ether One
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and story elements through detailed environmental exploration.
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+5.0
Eidolon
Core motivation is discovering new areas, piecing together story fragments scattered across a huge map.
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+5.0
The Old City: Leviathan
Core gameplay is about discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story from environment
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