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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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+5.0
Super Mario World
Core motivation is exploring the world map, finding secret exits, and uncovering hidden levels.
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+5.0
Super Mario World 2: Yoshi's Island
Strong emphasis on discovering hidden items, secret areas, and fully exploring large, maze-like levels.
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+5.0
Super Metroid
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities to unlock paths.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past
Large overworld and dual Light/Dark worlds with many secrets strongly motivate discovery.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild - Nintendo Switch 2 Edition
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and lore in a vast open world.
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+5.0
Super Mario Galaxy
Core gameplay involves discovering new galaxies, hidden stars, and secrets across varied and imaginative environments.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
Exploration is central, with a huge open world full of secrets, shrines, and landmarks to discover.
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+5.0
Super Mario Odyssey
Core gameplay revolves around discovering hidden Power Moons and secrets in richly detailed, diverse kingdoms.
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+5.0
Voices of the Void
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and events in a richly detailed and mysterious environment.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Large open world with hidden secrets, dungeons, and dual realms encourages discovery and curiosity.
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+5.0
Metroid Prime
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, scanning environments, and uncovering secrets.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
The game features vast, layered worlds with sky islands, underground depths, and a richly detailed surface encouraging…
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+5.0
Astro Bot
Strong emphasis on exploring levels thoroughly to find hidden bots, secrets, and collectibles.
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+5.0
Terraria
Core gameplay involves discovering new biomes, dungeons, secrets, and procedurally generated worlds.
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+5.0
Castlevania: Symphony of the Night
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and revisiting locations with new abilities.
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Exploration is a core element, with a large open world, hidden secrets, side quests, and time travel mechanics…
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+5.0
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker HD
Core motivation is discovering new islands, secrets, and treasures across a vast oceanic world.
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+5.0
Xenoblade Chronicles
Exploration of a massive, beautifully designed world is a core gameplay element, with discovery rewarded and encouraged.
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+5.0
Don't Starve Together
Exploration of procedurally generated worlds, biomes, caves, and secrets is a core gameplay element.
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+5.0
Subnautica
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new biomes, secrets, and story elements in a vast underwater world.
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+5.0
Donkey Kong Bananza
Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden collectibles, and new areas through open-ended level design.
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+5.0
Ghost of Yotei
Open world design rewards discovery of hidden locations, secrets, and side quests; players encouraged to explore…
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+5.0
Jak and Daxter: The Precursor Legacy
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in a seamless world.
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+5.0
My Talking Hank
Free-roaming island exploration with discovery of new regions, animals, and collectibles is a central feature.
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