Infinity Nikki is an action-adventure title, and players can explore its nonviolent world where everything looks amazing and having good fashion sense is critical. It’s also free to play, relying fully on microtransactions to earn revenue.
Pacific Drive is a unique title that combines survival horror with expansive exploration and crafting, all from the driver’s seat of a 1947 station wagon that will be your home away from home as you face the dangers of the game’s deadly Exclusion Zone.
Genie Reprise is a 3D first-person exploration title that tries to make use of the power of the newest consoles to deliver a unique walking simulator experience. It’s an interesting concept, but it unfortunately is a bit disappointing in terms of its gameplay.
On the surface, Jusant is a title about climbing up a monstrously tall tower. And it certainly does that with its unique climbing mechanic. But this wonderful title is also about mystery, exploration and finding oneself in a big world.
Above Snakes takes a casual approach to survival and crafting titles, where players construct their own world piece by piece as they craft, hunt and explore in it at their own pace. There is even a sprinkling of horror to round things out.
It may seem like a weird pairing, but Dredge successfully combines a somewhat peaceful fishing simulation with a dark Lovecraftian adventure that will find your little trawler bravely journeying into some of the most treacherous waters this side of Innsmouth.
Anemoiapolis is one of the most unique horror games that we have encountered in a long time because other than a few obligatory jump scares, it entirely centers on the unsettling feeling of being alone in both strange and mundane environments.
Tunic is an isometric action-adventure title with several gorgeous environments that at first glance brings to mind whimsical, Zelda-like gameplay. But beneath that exterior hides a truly hardcore title where everything in its mysterious and challenging world from its various environments, missions, and puzzles must be explored, uncovered, and solved.
Stray is one of the most unique games to come out in a long time. It offers players an open cyberpunk world to explore, and places them into the paws of a cat as the main character. And experiencing this brilliant sci-fi world through the eyes of a clever cat is absolute purr-fection.
The Out There: Oceans of Time game tries to straddle the divide between a story-based title and a resource-management survival game, and it mostly succeeds by allowing the player to choose how they want to navigate between story nodes.
