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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
Warcraft II: Tides of Darkness
Players have significant control over unit selection, strategic decisions, and base building, with freedom to direct…
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+4.0
Mario Kart World
Players have freedom to explore a large open world in Free Roam mode and choose various racing styles and characters…
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+4.0
Mass Effect Trilogy
Players have significant control over character creation, moral choices, and decision-making that affect the story and…
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+4.0
The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time
Players have significant freedom to explore Hyrule at their own pace, choose how to approach puzzles and quests, and…
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+4.0
Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Players have extensive control over character choice, match settings, items, stages, and custom stages, enabling…
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+4.0
Bloodborne
Players have significant freedom to explore interconnected areas, choose weapons and playstyles, and discover secrets…
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+4.0
Final Fantasy XII
Players have significant control over character development via the License Board and can customize AI behavior through…
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+4.0
Make it Meme
Players freely create captions for memes within a time limit, choosing from multiple meme templates and deciding how to…
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+4.0
The World Ends with You
Players have significant control over their actions and decisions, including choosing pins, customizing combat styles…
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+4.0
Vintage Story
Players have high control over crafting, building, and survival strategies with detailed manual processes and freedom…
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+4.0
Lethal Company
Players have freedom to explore, choose strategies, and roles (e.g. ship operator, looter), with emergent gameplay and…
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+4.0
Plants vs. Zombies GOTY Edition
Players have freedom to choose plants and strategies, experiment with different setups and adapt to various levels and…
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+4.0
Schedule I
Players have freedom to choose how to run their drug empire, mix products, automate tasks, and explore the open world…
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+4.0
Xenoblade Chronicles 3
Players have significant freedom in party building, class swapping, and combat roles, allowing control over strategies…
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+4.0
Deep Rock Galactic
Players freely choose classes, loadouts, difficulty levels, and play styles with many customization options and…
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+4.0
Don't Starve Together
Players have high freedom to choose characters, build bases, explore, and decide their own survival strategies.
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+4.0
Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn
Players have extensive freedom in character creation, party composition, quest approaches, and moral choices, allowing…
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+4.0
Battlefield 1942
Players have freedom to choose classes, vehicles, spawn points, and tactics, enabling control over their actions and…
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+4.0
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2
Players have significant control over base building, unit production, and tactical decisions in fast-paced RTS gameplay.
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+4.0
Donkey Kong Bananza
Players have high freedom to explore, choose paths, and experiment with destruction and transformations.
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+4.0
Ghost of Yotei
Players have freedom to explore the open world organically with minimal UI guidance, using environmental cues like wind…
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+4.0
Moto x3m
Players have control over acceleration, braking, and bike tilt, allowing personal decision-making and experimentation…
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+4.0
Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door
Players have freedom to choose partners, badges, and combat strategies; exploration involves using unique paper-based…
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+4.0
Pokémon Pokopia
Players have freedom to explore multiple biomes in any order, build and customize habitats and structures creatively…
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