The Best Discovery Games

Update, : Ammo Pigs: Cocked and Loaded added at rank #3.
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Bugsnax (2020)

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Playstation 5 Mac OS PC Windows Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 4

Catch mysterious living snacks and feed them to your friends in this unusual island adventure!

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  • puzzle
  • narrative
  • horror
  • adventure
  • mystery
  • inventive
  • discovery
  • cute
  • muppet
  • comedy
  • story
  • colourful
  • psychological
  • first-person
  • collector

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The Falconeer: Warrior Edition (2021)

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Xbox Series X/s PC Windows Playstation 5 Nintendo Switch Playstation 4

The Falconeer: Warrior Edition includes the fully updated game, plus 'The Hunter' DLC, adding a new player class with a flyable Ormir dragon and a set of pyro pot guided rockets, and the new 'Edge of the World' DLC, containing 3 additional side quests and new boss encounters. Experience the free-flying escapism of flying a giant warbird across a stunning open world. Discover a vast oceanic world filled with lost myths and breathtaking landscapes. Soar above the clouds and engage in spectacular aerial dogfights. Join and support your faction, taking on missions that may change the fate of your comrades as well as your own.


  • combat
  • pirates
  • discovery
  • flight
  • open-world
  • mystery
  • fantasy
  • narrative
  • boss
  • fight
  • shooter

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Ammo Pigs: Cocked and Loaded (2022)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 Android IOS iPhone

The age is 2049 AD. All life forms have gone extinct — except for the pigs who oppose the hostile AI-controlled machines. The robots should be destroyed, but more importantly, there have been found the last surviving chickens. They must be saved at any cost!

Ammo Pigs: Cocked and Loaded is an action-packed run-n-gun game with a heavy emphasis on jumping and shooting elements. It brings the feeling of 80’s and 90’s 2D action games with a lot of fun, explosions and bacon — in case you’re not good enough to save those poor chickens from deadly chicken-hating machines. Give it a spin if you’re up for some touch challenge!

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  • discovery
  • robots
  • action
  • shooter

4

Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story + Bowser Jr's Journey (2019)

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Nintendo 3DS

Laugh your way through a hilarious story told from three perspectives. Overcome the fury of Fawful, action-packed battles, puzzling tasks, and giant bosses. Mario and Luigi are stuck inside Bowser, forced to accomplish unusual tasks to assist their arch nemesis.


  • battle
  • rpg
  • discovery
  • puzzling
  • side-scrolling
  • remake
  • team
  • combat
  • interactive
  • turn-based
  • boss-fight
  • action
  • 2d
  • boss
  • fight

5

Curious Cases (2019)

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Nintendo Switch PC Windows Playstation 4 Xbox One HTC Vive Oculus Rift

3 ChaptersThe game consists of 3 chapters, each chapter unlocks at the end of the previous one. Once a chapter is unlocked, players can jump to it, to continue where they left off.StoryA scientist has gone missing, after claiming they made a groundbreaking discovery! Vanished from a locked office with only one exit this extraordinary case immediately grabs Detective Moore’s attention. A modern day legend, Detective Thomas Moore has solved more cases than one can count, where others hit dead-ends, he gets to work. Some cases are more difficult than others, but he always comes through, but this time is different... Something seems off about this case, it is almost as if greater forces are in play...


  • investigation
  • horror
  • noir
  • pvp
  • linear
  • discovery
  • hidden-object
  • mystery
  • vr
  • psychological
  • narration
  • detective
  • competitive
  • 3d
  • exploration

6

Mahjong Magic Islands (2017)

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Mac OS PC Windows Android

The wonderful world of the Magic Islands is in desperate need of magic to help restore the waning natural beauty of their ancient cities with a new wild energy. Tons of mythical creatures await your help throughout these scattered islands. You are their only hope! Return these magical lands back to their former beauty! Mahjong: Magic Islands features classic mahjong solitaire in a uniquely original visual format. Collecting components for magic spells adds a fun new layer to the gameplay while meeting cute magical creatures adds richness to the game.


  • discovery
  • mahjong
  • board
  • casual
  • cute
  • entertainment
  • classic

7

Soul Axiom Rebooted (2020)

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Linux Playstation 4 wii u Xbox One Nintendo Switch PC Windows Mac OS

The new enhanced edition of Soul Axiom - a first-person story-driven adventure puzzle game, set in the beautiful, haunting cyber-world of Elysia. Collect unique hand powers, discover multiple endings and choose your own destiny as you unravel the mystery of your digital afterlife.

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  • puzzle
  • cyber-thriller
  • multiple-endings
  • puzzlement
  • adventure
  • discovery
  • tron
  • mystery
  • story
  • thought-provoking
  • exploration
  • walking-simulator
  • first-person
  • family
  • pause

8

Road 96 (2021)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox Series X Xbox One Playstation 5 Playstation 4 PC Windows

Hitchhike your way to freedom in this crazy procedurally generated road trip. No one's road is the same!


  • non-player
  • third-party
  • adventure
  • discovery
  • story
  • exploration
  • first-person

9

The Forbidden Arts (2019)

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PC Windows Xbox One Nintendo Switch Playstation 4 IOS iPhone Mac OS

The Forbidden Arts is an action adventure platformer with a focus on discovery and exploration. You play as Phoenix, a young boy who seeks to master the element of fire in a grand adventure of ancient magic.


  • action-adventure
  • platform
  • discovery
  • exploration
  • grand
  • scroller
  • dungeon
  • adventure
  • boss
  • scrolling
  • old-school
  • 3d
  • magic
  • achievements
  • action

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RiME (2017)

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Nintendo Switch Xbox One Playstation 4 PC Windows Xbox 360

A third-person exploratory action/adventure title in which a boy ends up on a mysterious island and makes his way through its highly stylized environments, containing puzzles and slight navigation challenges, to get to the bottom of why he's ended up there and to reach the end of the road he's inadvertently begun to travel.


  • puzzle
  • discovery
  • exploration
  • platform
  • adventure
  • narrative
  • mystery
  • single-player
  • open-world

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