Exploration

Players explore diverse themed worlds and hidden secrets, with incentives to discover all collectibles.

Exploration is a core motivator with many hidden items, secrets, and diverse points of interest rewarding curiosity.

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

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and piecing together story elements.

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

Large open world with many secrets, puzzles, and seasonal changes to discover.

Large open world encourages discovery of secrets, collectibles, and environmental cues with minimal guidance.

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

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

The compact but detailed world encourages exploration of school, town, and hidden secrets.

The game encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and shortcuts across multiple distinct worlds.

Free Roam mode and interconnected tracks promote discovery of secrets, collectibles, and alternate paths.

The trilogy features extensive galaxy exploration, discovering new planets, lore, and secrets.

Large, detailed maps with many cities and DLC expansions encourage discovery and exploration.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring new, randomly generated dungeons and uncovering secrets and items.

Strong emphasis on discovering new zones, dungeons, secrets, and lore with minimal map guidance.

Open-world design with visible enemies, side quests, hunts, and treasure encourages discovery and curiosity-driven…

The game encourages discovering new biomes, resources, and lore in a dynamic, richly detailed world.

Strong emphasis on exploring large open world and finding hidden items.

Procedurally generated caves and diverse biomes promote discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Procedurally generated levels and hidden secrets encourage exploration and discovery each run.

Large, detailed world with many side quests and hidden content supports discovery and curiosity.

Multiple large and varied locations to discover and interact with, encouraging curiosity-driven play.

Large open world with diverse areas and hidden items encourages discovery and curiosity-driven play.