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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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High exploration scores, with competition at +0 or below.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
World to the West
Large open world with many secrets and collectibles encourages discovery and revisiting areas with different characters.
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+4.0
8BitBoy™
Game encourages discovery of hidden areas, secret coins, and warp zones.
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+4.0
Backrooms: Extractions
Game encourages discovering new areas, secrets, and environmental storytelling within varied levels.
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+4.0
Edge Of Eternity
Large open world with many secrets, collectibles, side quests, and environmental interactions to discover.
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+4.0
Shambles: Sons of Apocalypse
The game features multiple story branches, quests, and secrets encouraging discovery and exploration.
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+4.0
Aka
Game rewards curiosity with multiple islands, hidden areas, and secrets to discover.
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+4.0
Between Me and The Night
Game encourages thorough exploration of environments and discovery of hidden objects and story elements.
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+4.0
FANTASIAN Neo Dimension
Second half opens up to open world exploration with many side quests and hidden content; diorama environments encourage…
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+4.0
Golden Chambers
Open, flexible environments invite discovery of secrets, side content, and environmental interactions.
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+4.0
Operencia: The Stolen Sun
Game world is filled with secrets, backtracking, and puzzles; encourages curiosity-driven exploration.
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+4.0
Permafrost
Exploration of a large open world with secrets, resources, and story elements is a core motivation.
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+4.0
Scene Investigators
The game encourages detailed exploration of richly detailed crime scenes to discover clues and piece together stories.
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+4.0
Summer in Mara
Strong emphasis on discovering new islands, treasures, and interacting with diverse characters and environments.
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+4.0
The Adventures of Tree
The game features a large open world with many areas to discover, secrets, and hidden items.
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+4.0
Ys X: Nordics
Game encourages discovering new islands, secrets, and upgrading ship for better traversal.
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+4.0
[Chilla's Art] Inunaki Tunnel | 犬鳴トンネル
Exploration of dark tunnels, forest, and shrines with discovery of notes and secrets is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Dungeon Nightmares II : The Memory
Core gameplay involves exploring dark, procedurally generated dungeons and discovering items and secrets.
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+4.0
Ember
Open world with many explorable areas, hidden quests, and loot encourages discovery
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+4.0
Everholm
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, dungeons, and mysteries in the town and underworld.
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+4.0
Possessor(s)
Metroidvania design encourages discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities.
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+4.0
SpaceBourne
Game features many star systems, space anomalies, stations to explore on foot, and discovery of secrets.
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+4.0
Them and Us
Large mansion and multiple areas with backtracking and item discovery encourage exploration.
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+4.0
FortressCraft Evolved!
Exploration is vertical and deep, with large caves and biomes to discover, driving progression.
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+4.0
Aggelos
Game encourages discovering secrets, backtracking with new abilities, and exploring varied environments.
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