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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VHOLUME
An extremely fast paced parkour platforming game about clearing stages as quickly as possible.
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Control: Resonant
Oldest House broke, Hiss escaped, Jesse is gone, Manhattan is fucked up hard. Also no gun this time, we’re all swords and whips in this city now.
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Big Walk
I don’t think I’ve ever experienced a better online social space for myself and my closest friends than this game.
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Rita
An exceedingly cute little word puzzle adventure game.
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Interior Worlds
A liminal spaces photography game about navigating familiar spaces with eerie atmospheres.
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Alabaster Dawn
Okay I know this is in early access and only really 2/7ths released, but trust me this game is so fun to play and well worth.
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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.