Exploration

Encourages discovering hidden areas, secrets, and lore through environmental cues and puzzle solving.

Open levels with collectibles and multiple paths encourage discovery and curiosity.

Strong emphasis on exploring environments, uncovering secrets, and discovering multiple story branches.

Exploration includes discovering story through files and meta elements beyond the game screen.

Players explore new areas, uncover secrets, and discover lore throughout the game world.

Players explore varied themed levels with hidden collectibles and easter eggs to discover.

Exploration of varied, detailed environments and uncovering story elements through environmental storytelling.

Multiple locations and secrets encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Core gameplay centers on exploring detailed environments and uncovering story elements.

The game encourages exploration of levels to find hidden walls and collectibles, rewarding curiosity.

Narrative-driven discovery of world secrets and lore through multiple branching paths and endings.

Players explore multiple locations in both real and dream worlds, discovering secrets and Easter eggs.

Dungeon design features secrets, shortcuts, puzzles, and verticality that reward curiosity and careful exploration.

Game rewards discovering hidden memories, secret rooms, and piecing together story elements.

Multiple branching paths and 65 endings promote discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Includes map exploration, side quests, and discovery of secrets and lore enhancing curiosity-driven activities.

Players discover new story branches, character secrets, and hidden endings through repeated playthroughs.

Large maps with multiple areas and secrets encourage discovery and curiosity-driven exploration.

Open world with multiple biomes, hidden locations, and folklore-inspired areas encourages discovery and curiosity.

Exploration of a large, detailed world with hidden lore, side quests, and environmental storytelling.

Procedurally generated levels, hidden areas, and many secrets promote curiosity-driven discovery.

Strong emphasis on discovering hidden areas, secrets, and collectibles throughout levels and towns.

Exploration of surreal, fragmented mind environments with symbolic and abstract areas encourages discovery.

Players discover new areas, secrets, and story elements through exploration of the room and timelines.