Open-World Games Without Handholding

It seems like open-world games have resigned themselves to leaning on quest markers to guide players through increasingly massive game worlds. While these are helpful and sometimes essential, they definitely take away from the immersive aspect of the games themselves. After all, there are no quest markers in real life. If you want to feel like you’re truly living in the game you’re playing, following a floating dot on your screen does little to help that process.