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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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Less competition
High exploration scores, with competition at +0 or below.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+5.0
Animal Company
Exploration of maps, secrets, and lore is a core motivation and praised feature.
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+5.0
Bear Simulator
Core gameplay revolves around exploring diverse large environments and uncovering mysteries.
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+5.0
Heaven's Vault
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new moons, artifacts, and secrets in a non-linear world.
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+5.0
How We Got Here
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new floating islands, secrets, and story fragments.
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+5.0
Shiren the Wanderer: The Mystery Dungeon of Serpentcoil Island
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new dungeon layouts, secrets, and item interactions.
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+5.0
Supplice
Large, sprawling levels with many secrets and terminals encourage curiosity-driven discovery
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+5.0
The Legend of Khiimori
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, planning routes, and enjoying a large open world.
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+5.0
The Quest
Large handcrafted open world with many secrets, dungeons, and locations to discover.
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+5.0
Ancestors: The Humankind Odyssey
Exploring a large, detailed prehistoric environment is a major focus and source of enjoyment.
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+5.0
Song of the Deep
Core motivation is exploring a large, varied underwater map with many hidden treasures and secrets.
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+5.0
Everwind
Core gameplay loop revolves around discovering new floating islands, biomes, dungeons, and secrets.
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+5.0
Ittle Dew 2+
Strong emphasis on exploring a large open world with many secrets, hidden caves, and optional dungeons.
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+5.0
looK INside - Chapter 1
Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and details within the scrapbook pages.
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+5.0
MIO: Memories in Orbit
Exploration is a core element with large maps, hidden areas, and discovery-driven gameplay.
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+5.0
Morels: The Hunt
Core motivation is discovering new areas, hidden mushrooms, secret animals, and collectibles across diverse maps.
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+5.0
Phoenotopia: Awakening
Core motivation is discovering secrets, new areas, and backtracking with new abilities
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+5.0
Reveal The Deep
Core gameplay revolves around exploring the sunken ship and discovering hidden notes and secrets.
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+5.0
Yonder: The Cloud Catcher Chronicles
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new biomes, secrets, and collectibles in a vast open world.
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+5.0
Blade Kitten
Large, labyrinthine levels with many hidden collectibles and alternate paths strongly encourage exploration.
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+5.0
Bendy: Lone Wolf
Core gameplay involves discovering new areas, secrets, and collectibles in procedurally generated maps.
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+5.0
Creator of Another World
Procedurally generated worlds, towns, dungeons, and quests encourage discovery and curiosity-driven play.
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+5.0
Fugl
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new biomes, animals, and flying through diverse landscapes.
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+5.0
Soul Searching
Core gameplay revolves around discovering new islands, uncovering stories, and collecting resources in an unknown world.
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+5.0
The Slaverian Trucker
Large open world with rewards for exploring off beaten paths and discovering secrets.
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