Games With Gigantic Maps That Don’t Waste Your Time (Exploration Without Filler)

The Assassin’s Creed franchise can be thanked for helping create modern standards for open-world games. With each new Assassin’s Creed, the worlds got bigger and filled with more stuff to do, but then things became a bit bloated with the release of Assassin’s Creed Unity, which had too many icons on the screen. Flooding a map with too much can make players feel like they are playing a checklist simulator rather than an open-world game.