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Exploration
Discovering new areas or secrets
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High exploration scores, with status at +0 or below.
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Review scores are shown out of 100
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+4.0
Awkward Dimensions Redux
Exploring varied, surreal environments and uncovering hidden meanings is a core aspect.
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+4.0
Blue Fire
Large interconnected world with secrets, collectibles, and backtracking encourages discovery.
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+4.0
Dread Templar
Level design includes many secrets and super secrets, encouraging curiosity and discovery.
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+4.0
Flower
Encourages discovery of new areas, secrets, and hidden flowers within each level.
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+4.0
Ghost Song
Exploration of diverse biomes, hidden paths, and NPC interactions is a core motivation despite some tedious…
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+4.0
Grow: Song of the Evertree
Exploration of new areas, secrets, caves, and procedurally generated worlds is a key part of gameplay.
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+4.0
MAZEBOUND: Hunt, Gather, Run!
Procedurally generated maze and discovery of secrets and new areas drive curiosity and exploration.
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+4.0
Praey for the Gods
Open world with caves, puzzles, collectibles, and secrets encourages discovery and curiosity-driven activities.
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+4.0
Scratches - Director's Cut
Exploration of a detailed mansion environment is central, with discovery of clues and secrets driving the narrative.
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+4.0
Seablip
Strong emphasis on discovering islands, secrets, and hidden loot.
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+4.0
Serena
Core gameplay involves exploring a single environment thoroughly to discover evolving story elements.
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+4.0
Sherlock Holmes Chapter One
Open world design encourages discovering new areas, side quests, and secrets across the island of Cordona.
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+4.0
Soulmask
Large, diverse open world with many secrets, dungeons, and biomes to discover, motivating curiosity-driven play.
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+4.0
The Backrooms Game FREE Edition
Core gameplay is exploring endless, randomly generated maze corridors and discovering subtle environmental changes.
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+4.0
Destination Sol
Open world with planets, asteroid fields, and labyrinths; players explore and discover.
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+4.0
Far Cry® 2
Large open world with diverse biomes and hidden collectibles encourages discovery and curiosity-driven activities.
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+4.0
Fear the Timeloop - Prologue
Game features large, complex environments with secrets, puzzles, and multiple paths to discover.
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+4.0
Kentucky Route Zero: PC Edition
Exploration of mysterious environments and hidden narrative elements is a key part of the experience.
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+4.0
Maid Cafe on Electric Street
Players explore a detailed recreation of Nipponbashi with many shops and hidden items, encouraging curiosity-driven…
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+4.0
Retro Machina
Large, non-linear maps with many secrets and collectibles encourage thorough exploration.
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+4.0
Thief: Deadly Shadows
Open city hub and detailed levels encourage discovery and searching for loot.
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+4.0
Veritas Tales: Witch of the Dark Castle
Game encourages exploration of multiple locations, secrets, and story branches, with rewards for curiosity and…
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+4.0
Beast Saga
Open world with many side quests, hidden items, and secrets to discover.
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+4.0
Dimraeth
Players explore a large, detailed world with fog of war, random encounters, and discovery elements.
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