Exploration

Strong emphasis on discovering secrets, hidden lore, and new areas both in-game and through external ARG content.

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

Open world design with many collectibles, secrets, and areas to discover encourages curiosity-driven exploration.

Large maps with secrets, anomalies, and dynamic faction battles encourage curiosity-driven discovery.

Large, non-linear levels with hidden secrets and multiple paths strongly encourage exploration.

Open-world design with many islands and secrets encourages discovery and curiosity-driven play.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring varied environments, discovering secrets, and interacting with fauna.

Strong emphasis on discovering new areas, secrets, and backtracking with new abilities.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring a dense, quirky open world, discovering secrets, and completing varied quests.

Core gameplay revolves around exploring a large spherical open world with multiple biomes and secrets.

Open-ended world with many secrets, shortcuts, and alternative paths; exploration is a core motivation despite time…

Core gameplay revolves around discovering new underground areas, secrets, and story elements.

Strong emphasis on discovering new islands, secrets, and story elements.

Exploring the large, interconnected house and uncovering secrets and new areas is a core motivation.

Exploration of a large, maze-like space station with secrets, audio logs, and environmental storytelling is core to…

Strong emphasis on discovering new islands, secrets, and world features.

Strong emphasis on discovering new sectors, planets, secrets, and missions in a large procedurally generated galaxy.

Game design emphasizes discovering new areas, unlocking locations, and finding hidden easter eggs.

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

Exploration of diverse biomes, secret areas, and collectibles is a core motivation.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering collectibles, secrets, and new areas in a richly designed world.

Core gameplay revolves around discovering islands, secrets, collectibles, and environmental storytelling.

Core motivation is discovering new areas, secrets, and environmental details in a richly crafted world.

Core motivation is discovering secrets, new areas, and hidden content in a vast world.