Exploration

Open-world city with many hidden collectibles, side quests, and vertical areas encourages discovery.

Large open world with many secrets, collectibles, and side quests encourages discovery.

Strong focus on discovering new biomes, secrets, and surreal environments.

Core motivation is discovering detailed environments, hidden items, and revisiting memories in multiple locations.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new planets, species, and secrets in a huge universe.

Open world with puzzles, secrets, collectibles, and varied environments encourages discovery and curiosity.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, lore, and secrets in a dynamic world.

Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden areas, and narrative layers through repeated exploration.

Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden levels, and multiple paths.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and meta-puzzles across interconnected levels.

Large open worlds with varied terrain encourage discovery and curiosity-driven activities.

Strong emphasis on discovering new locations, lore, and secrets within the village and surrounding areas.

Large, varied map with secrets, puzzles, and changing layouts encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering secrets, collectibles, and new areas within richly themed levels.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden endings in a surreal world.

Core gameplay involves discovering new biomes, buildings, and random encounters in a vast open world.

Huge, detailed levels filled with secrets and alternate paths reward curiosity and discovery.

Heavy emphasis on discovering new areas, interacting with many NPCs, uncovering secrets, and reading in-game books.

Large open world with diverse biomes, tombs, cities, and secrets encourages extensive discovery.

Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking in large maps.

Large, detailed island and underwater environments encourage discovery of new areas, secrets, and NPCs.

Large, detailed world with many secrets and biomes encourages extensive discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Highly praised interconnected map with many secrets, shortcuts, and optional bosses; encourages thorough exploration.

Core gameplay is about discovering new areas, secrets, and dialogue in a maze-like sewer environment.