#01What Remains of Edith Finch
2017Primary genreAdventure › Narrative Adventure
Supporting signalsRelationships · Exploration · Mystery
Find walking sim games with evidence-backed adventure roots, related hybrids, and useful structural filters.
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#01Primary genreAdventure › Narrative Adventure
Supporting signalsRelationships · Exploration · Mystery
#02Primary genreAdventure › Walking Sim
#03Primary genreAdventure › Walking Sim
#04Primary genreAdventure › Narrative Adventure
Supporting signalsOpen World · Farming · Community Building
#05Primary genreAdventure › Narrative Adventure
Supporting signalsRelationships · Exploration · Mystery
#06Primary genreAdventure › Walking Sim
Supporting signalsExploration · Mystery
#07Primary genreAdventure › Walking Sim
#08Primary genreAdventure › Walking Sim
Supporting signalsExploration
Observed alongside this lens
Why these games appear
Exploration-led narrative in which moving through spaces and discovering environmental story material outweigh combat or formal puzzle systems.
Include when
Assign Walking Sim when exploration-led narrative in which moving through spaces and discovering environmental story material outweigh combat or formal puzzle systems. This must be a sustained, defining part of play rather than an isolated mode or sequence.
Leave out when
Exclude exploration games with substantial combat, survival management, or formal puzzle progression.