genre
Open world
A game with a large world the player can explore freely.
An open-world game lets players roam a large space and choose their own order of activities, rather than moving through a fixed sequence of levels.
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VGS Daniel. “Open world.” Video Game Scholar, 25 Sept. 2026, videogamescholar.com/dictionary/open-world.
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