Exploration

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

Exploration of large maps with quests, treasures, and monsters is a core gameplay element.

Exploration of multiple floors with different biomes and hidden items is a core gameplay element.

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

Randomized dungeons, hidden rooms, puzzles, and secrets encourage discovery and curiosity.

The game features open world hex map exploration, discovery of encounters, and interest in uncovering story elements.

Procedural maps and hidden objectives encourage discovery and navigation of unfamiliar environments.

Large open world with flying and discovery is a core feature, though some areas are empty and underpopulated.

Large open world with many sectors, planets, and anomalies to discover.

Exploration of a detailed mansion without a map encourages discovery and memorization of environment.

Exploration of a large stylized map of America and discovery of hundreds of unique stories and characters.

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

The open-world map encourages exploration and discovery.

Exploration of procedurally generated worlds, dungeons, and biomes is a core motivation.

Large map with over 200 cities and many factions invites discovery and exploration of historical East Asia.

Large open world with many locations and secrets to discover; exploration is a key part of the experience.

Open world with many regions and quests to discover in any order, rewarding curiosity.

Exploration is player-directed through tile placement, discovering new biomes and resources.

Exploring a detailed city environment from a bird's perspective is a core part of the experience.

Game features exploration of a large map with outposts and expeditions beyond the main tree settlement.

Exploration of floating islands, hidden areas, and lore is a core and praised aspect of the game.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and alien bases.

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

Large open world with many unique locations and hidden items encourages thorough exploration.