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Large, maze-like levels filled with secrets and collectibles encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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+4.0
Vaporum: Lockdown
Open-level design with secrets and backtracking encourages discovery and curiosity-driven exploration.
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+5.0
Environmental Station Alpha
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and solving cryptic puzzles
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+4.0
Organ Quarter
Game rewards careful exploration of environments, finding hidden items, and uncovering secrets.
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+5.0
System Shock: Enhanced Edition
Exploration of large, complex, and interconnected levels is a core motivation.
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+5.0
Off-Peak
Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and interacting with various characters.
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+4.0
Windswept
Levels contain many secrets, collectibles, and bonus stages that reward curiosity and thorough exploration.
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+4.0
REKA
Encouraged to discover new areas, hidden chests, and lore through exploration.
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+4.0
Capsized
Levels contain hidden secrets and encourage curiosity-driven discovery in richly detailed environments.
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+4.0
Tribal Hunter
The game encourages discovering secret areas, backtracking, and exploring diverse biomes.
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+4.0
Dungeons of Hinterberg
Players explore multiple distinct regions and dungeons with unique puzzles and secrets; exploration is a core element.
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+4.0
Fortune's Run
Large, detailed levels with secrets and multiple routes reward curiosity and thorough exploration.
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+4.0
Knights And Bikes
The game encourages discovering new locations, secrets, and lore on the island, rewarding curiosity and thorough…
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+4.0
Depersonalization
Game features exploration of diverse modules with secrets, clues, and branching storylines rewarding curiosity.
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+4.0
Paper Mario: The Origami King
The game features a large, detailed world with many hidden secrets and collectibles encouraging discovery.
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+4.0
Super Mario 64 DS
The game emphasizes discovering new areas, hidden stars, and secrets within levels and the castle hub.
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+4.0
Super Mario Galaxy 2
Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden stars, and revisiting levels to find all collectibles.
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+5.0
Super Win the Game
Central motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden items in a large interconnected world.
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+4.0
Guild Saga: Vanished Worlds
Exploration of a richly detailed world with secrets, side quests, and lore encourages curiosity-driven discovery.
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+4.0
The Hex
Players discover secrets, hidden achievements, and layered story elements that reward curiosity and replay.
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+4.0
Pharaoh Rebirth+
Levels contain many hidden areas and collectibles that reward curiosity and backtracking.
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+4.0
Shovel Knight Dig
Procedural level generation and hidden secrets motivate players to discover new areas and content.
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+5.0
Fractal Block World
Exploration is the central motivation, with infinite fractal worlds and secrets to discover.
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+5.0
Master Key
Core motivation is discovering secrets, unlocking new areas, and uncovering hidden content in a dense, interconnected…
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+4.0
Dungeon Antiqua
Procedural dungeon generation and hidden traps/doors promote discovery and curiosity-driven exploration.
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