Exploration

Large open world with many hidden areas, caves, and secrets encourages curiosity-driven discovery.

Core gameplay involves discovering new planets, ruins, and resources across many star systems.

Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and story elements through detailed environmental exploration.

Large handcrafted maps with many secrets, hidden areas, and collectibles strongly motivate exploration.

Large open world with many secrets, puzzles, and varied biomes encourages discovery.

Large, procedurally generated maps with diverse biomes, caves, dungeons, and secrets strongly motivate discovery.

Core gameplay involves discovering new biomes, resources, and artifacts in a vast procedurally generated world.

Core motivation is discovering seamless planets, cities, space stations, and points of interest in a large solar system.

Core gameplay is about discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story from environment

Strong emphasis on exploring a detailed dystopian city and discovering secrets and story elements.

Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden collectibles, and new areas through open-ended level design.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and hidden treasures without a map, encouraging curiosity.

The game features a large open world with multiple towns, unique biomes, and secrets to discover, encouraging…

Large, twisting map with many secrets, hidden paths, and environmental storytelling strongly encourages discovery.

Highly praised for its large, vertical, and interconnected map encouraging discovery and freedom.

The game features a large, detailed open-world Manhattan with many hidden collectibles and side activities encouraging…

Exploration of a procedurally generated world, dungeons, and discovery of secrets is a core gameplay element.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new islands, interacting with environments, and uncovering secrets.

Strong emphasis on exploring surreal, abstract environments and maze-like areas, though environments are repetitive.

Open-world map with diverse environments encourages discovery and curiosity-driven driving.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring a bizarre house room by room to discover secrets and narrative elements.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new areas, secrets, and narrative clues within the home environment.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in a large open world.

Strong emphasis on discovering hidden items, secret areas, and fully exploring large, maze-like levels.