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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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.
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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…