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Exploration
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Large, detailed maps with many locations and secrets encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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+4.0
TaleSpire
Players discover new maps, community creations, and hidden details within 3D environments.
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+5.0
Microsoft Flight Simulator 2000
The game features over 20,000 airports worldwide, detailed cities, and varied terrain encouraging extensive exploration.
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+4.0
Creepy Castle
Metroidvania-style exploration with secrets, backtracking, and multiple scenarios encourages discovery.
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+4.0
Kingdom Two Crowns
Exploring multiple islands with randomized elements and discovering new features is core to gameplay.
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+4.0
Lightyear Frontier
Game features multiple biomes, secrets, and encourages discovery of new areas.
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+4.0
Car Parking Multiplayer
Large open-world maps with free walking, hidden gifts, and diverse environments encourage discovery and…
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+4.0
The Other Side
Maps are large and unique, with players exploring entire locations to find evidence and artifacts, not limited to fixed…
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+4.0
Retro Machina
Large, non-linear maps with many secrets and collectibles encourage thorough exploration.
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+4.0
Little Big Adventure – Twinsen’s Quest
Game features large seamless islands and encourages discovery of secrets and new areas.
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+4.0
Nancy Drew®: Secret of the Old Clock
Players explore multiple locations, uncover clues, and revisit areas, with driving adding dynamic exploration.
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+4.0
Realms of Magic
Large world map with many handcrafted and procedural areas; players explore new biomes, dungeons, and secrets.
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+4.0
Starstruck: Hands of Time
Exploration of a handcrafted diorama town with hidden items and secrets; calendar system and changing events encourage…
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+4.0
Human Host
Large procedural maps with multiple biomes and points of interest promote discovery and curiosity.
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+4.0
Wild West Pioneers
Scouting and world map exploration are core features, rewarding discovery and expansion.
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+4.0
Galaxy Squad
The large starmap with branching missions, random events, and discovery elements encourages exploration.
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+4.0
Pathway
Map node travel with randomized events and hidden loot encourages discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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+4.0
Pocket Kingdom
Non-linear map with secrets and backtracking rewards curiosity and discovery.
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+5.0
Intergalactic Fishing
Procedurally generated lakes and unknown fish species encourage continual discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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+4.0
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-earth
Game features map exploration with changing layouts and discovery of new story elements.
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+5.0
Sea Dogs: City of Abandoned Ships
Large Caribbean map with many islands, secrets, and quests to discover.
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+4.0
Mass Effect™: Andromeda Deluxe Edition
Exploring multiple planets and environments is a core part of gameplay, with discovery and traversal praised.
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+4.0
STAR WARS Jedi: Fallen Order™
Metroidvania-style maps encourage discovery of secrets, upgrades, and lore; exploration is a core gameplay element.
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+4.0
Lucid Cats
Procedurally generated maps and liminal environments encourage discovery and cautious exploration each run.
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+4.0
THE LONGING
Exploration of vast cave systems and discovery of hidden items and areas is a core feature.
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