Exploration

Large, open maps with many islands and environments encourage discovery and tactical exploration.

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

Multiple planes and randomly generated maps offer extensive discovery and curiosity-driven gameplay.

Multiple maps and large environments encourage discovery and thorough investigation.

Maps are large with verticality and secrets; exploration is rewarded and encouraged.

Game features multiple maps with secrets, quests, and environmental storytelling; exploration is a key motivator.

Campaign and multiplayer maps encourage discovery of new areas, secrets, and lore.

Multiple maps with hidden areas, puzzles, and secrets encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Large maps with diverse biomes and hidden caves encourage discovery and exploration.

The large map encourages exploration and discovery.

Exploration is a core element with a semi-open world, secrets, puzzles, and backtracking to previously inaccessible…

Exploration is core, with unlocking and discovering new biomes and map tiles, encouraging curiosity-driven activities.

The game encourages discovering hidden secrets, underground caverns, and multiple areas with a detailed map and fast…

Large maps with diverse environments encourage discovery and navigation without in-game maps.

Game features multiple locations to discover and investigate, encouraging curiosity-driven exploration.

Exploration is a core feature with a large open world, non-linear progression, hidden secrets, and multiple regions to…

Game encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and hidden quests with minimal map assistance.

Players discover new map tiles, unlock secrets, and expand their world in a non-linear fashion.

Exploration is a core feature with multi-layered scanning, discovery of hidden systems, and ongoing curiosity-driven…

Large map with hidden quests and new areas to unlock supports curiosity-driven exploration.

Large map with many locations and backtracking encourages discovery and revisiting areas.

Unlocking new map areas and discovering lore encourages curiosity and exploration.

Exploration of uncharted seas, discovering islands, secrets, and dynamic events is a core and highly praised feature.

Free-roaming island exploration with discovery of new regions, animals, and collectibles is a central feature.