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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Merchant of the Skies
A small airship trading simulation game about exploration, making money, and building a trading company.
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The Seance of Blake Manor
A creepy and ominous detective game set in 17th Century Ireland. A woman has gone missing, and it’s your job to find out what happened to her.
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Ty The Tasmanian Tiger
The most stereotypically Australian collectathon you’ve probably ever seen on the PS2.
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Caravan Sandwitch
A low pressure open world adventure game where you drive around in your cute lil van to discover what is out there and figure out what happened to your sister.
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Lorelei and the Laser Eyes
Very puzzly puzzle game with a lot of pattern recognition, code breaking, and lateral thinking. And lots and lots of scratch paper.
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Everhood
The best way I can describe this game is that it is Undertale meets Yume Nikki with a rhythm section.
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Hollow Knight: Silksong
Apparently this game made me miss the Saturday slot last week. When the weird bug lady kicks your ass and delays your review by a week. Accurate for this game though tbh.
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Tchia
A game from the heart, soul, and spirit of native New Caledonia. Navigate and explore through an open world island and follow the story of Tchia as she tries to find her father.
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Pacific Drive
Weird Car SCP exploration/survival game with some roguelite elements included, what a way to pitch a game hey?
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Dome Keeper
Roguelikes arent usually my style, but the mines call out to me, and that makes things more interesting for me, and the win condition is usually tied to the mining not the combat, so that makes me a happy fox.
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TEVI
A slightly less hard-core Rabi Ribi, with a tighter story and more elaborate combat system. And yes, I compare to Rabi Ribi because this isn’t just a spiritual sequel, it’s also by the same developers.
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Outer Wilds: Archipelago
One of my favourite games just got a randomizer! I’ve written about Archipelago before with The Witness, but it’s basically a randomizer tool that shuffles progression around both your game, and the games of anyone you’re playing with, meaning that the game slowly opens up as people check more places and get more items.