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[Gulddom]

Insaniquarium but with resolution options and more fish. I would buy it in a heartbeat.

[flabort]

I think I remember seeing some games a couple years ago where you explore the ocean.  Would something like that work?

I'm watching my brother play Endless Ocean right now. It's not exactly... endless. However, it does fit the wish to a T.

[varnish]

If Endless Ocean is the one, it does sound right, but I don't own a Wii.

[Sirus]

I would like to have an open world exploration game where the focus was just on exploration, nothing else. No violence, no quests, possibly no people. I guess a bit like the game Proteus, but with more interaction with the environment. Or like one of the elder scrolls games with the enemies and people removed, and the wildlife made non-aggressive. A world where you could find and explore caves and ruins, or just wander around forests or along coasts if you wanted.

It's a vague idea, I know.

Space Engine has no goals other than to explore the universe. Not much interaction sadly.

[Lightningfalcon]

You also might want to take a look at Outer Wilds.  It is a space exploration game.   There isn't much of a challenge when it comes to actual space navigation, but it has some interesting mechanics to it, and there is a decent bit of mystery involved in everything.  Game is in alpha, however, so you can't unlock the mystery behind everything yet.  Lots of little nooks and cranies to discover in that solar system.  The closest you might try to come to combat is ramming your ship into some of the beasties that inhabit the darker parts of the system. 

[Vector]

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[Gunner-Chan]

Why hasn't anyone reccomended Noctis to Varnish? That's literally what it is outside of the interaction. All the exploring of planets you can stomach though.

[Sirus]

I thought Noctis was a dead project and pretty much unsupported for modern systems *shrug*

[alexandertnt]

Thats not true, Noctis V will come out one day, just you wait and see!

[Gunner-Chan]

Well Endless Ocean is also kinda unsupported and for a dead system. I don't see what's so different about older PC games.

[Sirus]

Unless you have an older computer to play the older computer games on, there's no guarantee that the older games will work with newer hardware and software.

DOS games, for instance, require emulation to play on just about anything newer than Windows XP

[varnish]

I could have sworn that I played Noctis before, but nothing about it looks familiar. Was there some sort of top-down survival game with a similar name?

I actually kind of want an exploration game that is not in a procedurally generated world or universe. I mean, I know the idea of those is re-playability, but I imagine a game with a hand crafted world could be a lot more interesting.

[Sirus]

The top-down game you're (probably) thinking of is Notrium.

[EnigmaticHat]

I could have sworn that I played Noctis before, but nothing about it looks familiar. Was there some sort of top-down survival game with a similar name?

I actually kind of want an exploration game that is not in a procedurally generated world or universe. I mean, I know the idea of those is re-playability, but I imagine a game with a hand crafted world could be a lot more interesting.

Golden Sun 2?

(its not actually a survival game, its a JRPG.  But it gives you a ship at one point and let's you go explore the ocean and go on adventures, so it felt like an exploration game when I was a kid)

[Mech#4]

There was a game which was hand made and focused entirely on exploration. Came out maybe 3-4 years ago? I remember screen shots of it had a lot of blues and purples with caves and underground mushroom forests or something.


Quick search. "Dear Esther" is the one I'm thinking of.

But yes, I agree a hand crafted world is nicer than a procedurally generated one because they can have those little touches in small places that really encourage careful exploration. "Sacred 2" is a nice example of that, there's a number of references to movies and other games hidden around the world, as well as mini bosses.