Palworld lol
Just Cause 4 is the embodiment of this lol
Pillars of Eternity Deadfire :D
Wouldn’t it be kind of boring if it was just like the great plains for 40 miles with maybe a singular river on the far side?
You’re lucky if the game has reasonable climate progression like this. Most games the frozen zone is right next to forest zone which is right next to the volcano zone.
Not enough caves.
People “this game is so unrealistic, there’s no way these biomes would be this close and distinct”
Also people “flying through space for weeks to visit a baren rock is so bullshit and biting”
Yes, and I love them for it. ^^
Wait, no tributaries? Unplayable!
Far Cry to some extent.
Rippin off Grundo!
Lol in Witcher 3.
I never completed that one but had explored most of the mainland. I really need to go back and go through it all again. I loved the small details throughout the world. The wilderness and countryside was so well done, with little shrines along the roads here and there and so many lived-in places throughout. I spent 75% of my playtime with Roach set to a slow trot just so I could really absorb the world and feel like I was making a journey on those old roads. There’s something so profoundly Witcher about quietly riding dark paths at night and stopping to hear a monster in the woods. You climb off Roach and draw your silver sword, then make your way into that decrepit forest to deal with whatever is going on out there.
Witcher 3 was one of the few games I 100% and didnt use fast travel… the journey was half the game.
This is how playing Pokemon Scarlett feels
Name one open-world game from the past 5 years whose map looks like this. Seriously. I’d like to play it.
Monster Hunter Rise, although it’s not exactly open world
Minecraft with this intensity would be fun to try.
Breath of the Wild
Subnautica
Satisfactory. Alien planet version.
Satisfactory does it really well. You’ve got all those biomes (except ice?) but some areas are really three dimension or twisted up. Exploring in Satisfactory 1.0 is a real highlight in what is otherwise a very chill sanbox building game.
Honestly I’d love is someone made exactly that map to play around in in a sandbox game
Zelda did that in the 80s