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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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High exploration scores, with status at +0 or below.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Dark Devotion
Fixed but complex maps with secrets, multiple paths, and hidden lore encourage discovery
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+4.0
DuneCrawl
Exploring islands, dungeons, and secrets is a key part of gameplay and player enjoyment.
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+4.0
Exogate Initiative
Exploring new planets, discovering alien life and artifacts is a core gameplay element driving curiosity.
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+4.0
幽灵高校(Ghost College)
Exploration of a haunted college and discovery of clues and secrets is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Master Reboot
Core gameplay involves exploring diverse, surreal memory levels and uncovering story fragments
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+4.0
Outbound
Large maps with diverse biomes encourage discovery of landmarks and collectibles.
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+4.0
Ranger’s Path: National Park Simulator
Large open world encourages discovering new trails, animals, and plants; exploration is a key motivator.
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+4.0
Starpoint Gemini Warlords
Large galaxy to explore with many sectors, planets, and random encounters; exploration is a core activity.
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+4.0
鸿源战纪 - Tales of Hongyuan
Large maps with hidden quests, secrets, and optional dungeons encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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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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