Exploration

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

Game encourages discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story through environmental clues.

Players explore multiple distinct worlds and secret areas with curiosity-driven activities and lore discovery.

Exploration of large galaxies and sectors is a core gameplay element, with discovery of anomalies and artifacts.

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

Levels contain hidden triggers, secret passages, and multiple exits, rewarding curiosity and exploration.

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

Procedurally generated dungeons and discovery of new floors and items drive curiosity and exploration.

Large interconnected map with secrets, hidden rooms, and backtracking encourages discovery.

Exploration of island, caves, and underwater areas is a core gameplay element, rewarding curiosity and discovery.

Large, varied environments encourage discovery and navigation of new areas.

Game encourages discovering secrets, hidden items, and backtracking to previously inaccessible areas.

Large open world with many secrets, hidden paths accessible via transformations, and varied environments encourage…

Large, dark maps with randomized elements encourage discovery and cautious navigation.

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

Game emphasizes exploring unfamiliar, foggy, and symbolic environments.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring the space station and discovering hidden details.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and alien species within the spaceport environment.

The large starmap with branching missions, random events, and discovery elements encourages exploration.

Open hex map with fog of war encourages discovery of new areas, events, and secrets.

Large maps with hidden secrets, multiple endings, and puzzle elements encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Metroidvania style encourages discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities.

Exploration of new biomes and resource nodes is a core gameplay loop, with players moving their city to new maps to…

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