Many open-world games reward players for exploring the game map or require exploration for the player to progress.
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These games are the cream of the crop in the open-world genre thanks to their quality, and their 90+ Open-Critic score is proof of it.
Exploring too much in these games could lead to some negative consequences.
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Oldest Open-World Games

Before games like Skyrim and The Witcher 3 could run, these early open-world games learned how to walk.
Death Stranding 2: On the Beach's gorgeous open world can be easy to take for granted. After all, where once the prospect of free roaming through a large space was a novelty – like in GTA 3 – open ...