ADVENTUREWORLDMAGAZINEA journal for
the endlessly curious.
THE READING ROOM
160 real destinations, each with its own route, landscape and photograph. Plus 32 exploration-game features.
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Underwater ruins and marine habitats · 2 MIN ·
ABZÛ follows the Diver through kelp forests, coral reefs, and darker depths, pairing fluid swimming with responsive marine life and time to observe without an air gauge.
A mysterious island · 2 MIN ·
On The Pathless’s cursed island, a spirit mask reveals distant points of interest while talismans, an eagle companion, and collected crystals turn discovery into continuous movement.
A suburban backyard at insect scale · 2 MIN ·
Grounded makes a suburban yard into a varied landscape of pond, termite den, hot sandbox, hedge branches, and Haze Lab, where materials, wildlife, and changing capabilities shape exploration.
The Marrows and surrounding archipelagos · 2 MIN ·
From The Marrows, fishing, dredging, and trawler upgrades open routes among remote islands, while reefs and night fog make each return part of the exploration.
The desert world of Midden · 2 MIN ·
On Midden, Sable’s Gliding connects monumental ruins and spaceship remains with a customizable hoverbike, independent travel, desert fishing, and the Vivarium’s growing collection.
Desert ruins and a distant mountain · 2 MIN ·
Journey’s anonymous crossing moves between ancient ruins and open sand toward a looming mountaintop, with gliding, cloth-assisted flight, and optional encounters shaping its pace.
Seven-planet solar system · 3 MIN ·
ASTRONEER links seven celestial bodies through hands-on terrain work: dig and reshape with the Terrain Tool, establish modular infrastructure, then use tether-aware boards or a fuelled VTOL to read difficult ground.
Exploration & discovery · 2 MIN ·
The Little Scout, Signalscope and Translator investigate different kinds of evidence on planets that keep changing while the explorer travels.
Estelle’s bicycle journey · 2 MIN ·
Estelle cycles through a world nearing a cataclysm, stopping to photograph sights, record sounds, speak with people, and assemble a personal journal.
A near-future ocean research setting · 2 MIN ·
Beyond Blue follows scientist Mirai through research dives to track marine life, with Ocean Insights films connecting the fictional expedition to real scientists and ocean footage.
A dried seabed and industrial ruins · 3 MIN ·
FAR: Lone Sails sends a train-like vessel across an ocean floor, past submarines, supertankers, roadblocks, and hilltop settlement ruins, with wind, fuel, and salvage shaping progress.
The merchant ship Obra Dinn · 2 MIN ·
Aboard the fictional Obra Dinn, an insurance investigator pieces together a vanished crew’s history through death scenes, a chronology, maps, sketches, and cautious deductions.
The Nebula · 2 MIN ·
Aliya Elasra and robot Six sail the Nightingale among lost moons, ruins, villages, and archaeological sites, where uncertain glyph readings can redirect the investigation.
A fictional archipelago inspired by New Caledonia · 2 MIN ·
Tchia’s fictional islands, reefs, shipwrecks, and coconut trees turn traversal into a set of changing choices, from climbing and sailing to borrowing an animal’s movement.
The fictional Amazon survival setting · 2 MIN ·
Green Hell frames Amazon exploration through Jake Higgins’s search for Mia, where resource gathering, body inspection, shelter building, and relationships with rainforest animals shape each decision.
An ocean of islands and abandoned structures · 2 MIN ·
Raft turns a small floating platform into a mobile base, linking drifting debris, island resources, underwater exploration, Trading Posts, and story locations such as Varuna Point and Temperance.
Exploration & simulation · 2 MIN ·
Research driving in Arizona and the Carpathians uses different tools for three different problems: seeing the route, measuring the water and finding a winch attachment.
Olympic Exclusion Zone · 2 MIN ·
Pacific Drive makes each expedition a planned station-wagon run through the fictional Olympic Exclusion Zone, where forests, swamps, towns, radiation, anomalies, repairs, and a closing storm shape the return.
