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Autonomy
Being in control of actions and decisions (e.g. freedom to play how you want)
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Autonomy + Experimenting
A strong dose of autonomy and experimenting in the same game.
Explore play styles & combinations ↓+5 Autonomy affinity
Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Infinite Tao
Players have significant control over build creation, resource management, and strategic decisions during runs.
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+4.0
Reality Break
Players have significant control over their builds, item rewrites, mission difficulty, and meta progression, allowing…
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+4.0
Road Not Taken
Players have freedom to choose strategies, relationships, and how to approach puzzles; multiple solutions exist for…
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+4.0
Sentimental K
Players can freely choose weapons, skills, and artifacts, and swap abilities during runs, allowing personal control…
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+4.0
Mess Adventures
Players must adapt quickly to constantly changing mechanics and gameplay styles, encouraging personal decision-making…
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+4.0
Passant: A Chess Roguelike
Players have significant control over their board setup, choice of pieces, badges, and playstyle, enabling personal…
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+4.0
Pathless Woods
Players have extensive freedom in building, crafting, exploration, and managing their own base and companions.
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+4.0
Vector 36
Players have extensive freedom to customize and tune their skimmers, adjusting parts, thrust vectors, and balance to…
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+4.0
Wizards and Warlords
Players have extensive freedom to customize their wizard or warlord, choose strategies, and direct complex economic…
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+4.0
English Country Tune
Players have freedom to choose puzzle worlds and approach puzzles with trial and error and experimentation, though some…
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+4.0
Legend of Mana
Players have freedom to place artifacts and build the world map in any order, affecting gameplay and exploration.
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+4.0
Runeborn
Players have meaningful control over rune locking and build customization, allowing strategic decisions rather than…
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+4.0
Space Simulation Toolkit
Players have extensive control over particle types, simulation parameters, and can create custom simulations…
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+4.0
Sport Mode
Players have freedom to experiment, create contraptions, and manipulate physics with few preset constraints.
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+4.0
Net.Attack() - Code or Die!
Players have high control over their attack design via a visual programming node system, allowing freedom to create and…
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+4.0
Fictorum
Players have freedom to customize spells, choose loadouts, and make strategic choices on the map
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+4.0
Runers
Players freely choose race, class, starting spell, and craft spells from runes, allowing high personal control and…
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+4.0
Ostranauts
Players have high control over ship building, salvaging, and decision making in a complex, open-ended environment.
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+4.0
Bad Rats Show
Players have freedom to arrange rats with different abilities in various ways to solve puzzles; many solutions possible.
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+4.0
Chroma: Bloom And Blight
Players have freedom to build any deck with all cards unlocked from the start and can customize mana curves and hero…
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+4.0
Dawncaster | The RPG Cardventure
Players have extensive freedom in deckbuilding, character class, weapon, talents, and path choices, allowing personal…
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+4.0
Brewmaster: Beer Brewing Simulator
Players have freedom to create their own recipes and experiment with ingredients and brewing methods, with some fixed…
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+4.0
Dungeons & Dragons Online®
Highly customizable character builds and freedom in skill, feat, and class choices; players direct their own…
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+4.0
Doodle God
Players freely combine elements in any order to discover new ones, allowing personal decision-making and creativity.
Same motivation, different experiences
Your way to play
Explore different sides of autonomy, grouped by what players enjoy.
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A little more you
Mix in another motivation, or find an experience with less of something else.
