Tag: Exploration
Games where there is a prominent focus on exploring and vigilance, with secrets hidden around every corner and new hidden paths to find. The story may not be prominent or may take a back seat to the world building.
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Bō: Path of the Teal Lotus
A cute metroidvania about small but powerful creature in big world, if you like Ori or Hollow Knight, and have an interest in Japanese folklore, then this one is for you.
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Satisfactory
This game has been consuming and is on track to utterly ruin my entire life. Absolutely recommend if you like making satisfying factories.
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The Planet Crafter
A game about terraforming a planet. “Wait isn’t that a lot of games?” Yes, but this one does it in a first person survival format, not an overhead strategy or management format. Oh and unlike most first person survival games, there isn’t anything that’s explicitly trying to kill you.
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Sephonie
A weird little parkour platformer game where you play as a team of three guys exploring an island and its vast cave systems and ecosystem with some puzzle minigames that borders on experimental.
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Beacon Pines
A very cute little mystery novel with a pretty creepy undertone. Some endings are bad, some are tragic, but the magic is none are permanent, as you explore the branching story of the book to find the true ending.
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Islands of Insight
It’s finally out! The biggest open-world puzzle game has released, and it’s just as- if not more -obnoxious for the “ooh shiny” among us.
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Talos Principle II
So this dropped out of nowhere, like, I saw Icely Puzzles post a video about there being a (apparently temporary?) Demo for this game, and immediately went and played it before watching, and I’ll just say, I’m impressed they managed to create a sequel to this game after the ending of the first. Either way…
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Islets
A super cute metroidvania with a modest level of diffficulty. Explore through 5 disconnected maps with the goal of trying to reconnect them by activating the island’s cores, then explore new areas of each island through the new connections that are made by bringing the islands together again.
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Chants of Sennaar
A (mostly) puzzle game about language. Specifically languages you don’t know. And if you’re thinking “oh this sounds like Trunic,” then you’re a little mistaken because the main goal of the game here is to learn and understand the languages. The game helps with this.
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Islands of Insight (First Look)
So this game has not been released yet, but I am so incredibly hype for it! It’s the brainchild of some of the industry’s best puzzle creators, and the closest comparison I can make is to The Witness, but it’s so much more than just that! You can jump in this one. Explore a stunningly…
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The Outer Worlds
A 2019 space exploration game that’s super story heavy with some elements of mystery, and if you’re thinking of a certain other Outer game, you’d be thinking wrong. This one has guns! It’s one of the Obsidian RPGs, and I’m honestly surprised at how engaged I’ve been with this, since I’m not usually the kind…
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Return of the Obra Dinn
Lucas Pope detective game? Sign me up. You’re a surveyor for the East India Company who is investigating what happened on the Obra Dinn, which was declaired missing at sea in 1802, but after 5 years has drifted into port with no visible crew aboard. Your job is to figure out the identities and fates…