The Explorator

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The Explorator is a single player role playing shooter game with fantasy, violence and science fiction themes. It was developed by Remnant games studio and was released on June 7, 2025. It received mostly positive reviews from players.

The Explorator is a game inspired by Atmospheric FPS with a cell-shaded visual style. As an Explorator, you take your courage in both hands to set foot on the most dangerous island in the known world, Ospolis. Prepare yourself well, as many challenges and obstacles await you. Legend has it that the ancient city of Atlantis lies beneath this island, which has been suddenly invaded by goblins…

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79%

Audience ScoreBased on 24 reviews

graphics4 positive mentions

gameplay3 negative mentions

The game features a unique and charming art style with hand-drawn 2D characters combined with 3D environments, creating a whimsical and immersive atmosphere.
Gameplay includes tight and responsive gunplay that encourages tactical combat and stealth, supported by simple inventory and healing mechanics.
The world design and atmosphere are highly praised for their detail, immersion, and evocative lighting, making exploration feel rewarding and rich despite early access status.

The game suffers from significant technical issues including poor optimization, frequent frame drops, crashes, and some UI/menu bugs that affect the experience.
Navigation and mission design are limited by a lack of interactive maps and mission variety, with mission repetition unrewarding and poor enemy AI causing frustrating combat encounters.
Key gameplay systems such as crafting, loot economy, controls (especially keybinding and controller support), and mission structure are underdeveloped or clunky, detracting from long-term engagement.

story
25 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The story presents an intriguing world with strong world-building and a unique visual style reminiscent of storybook and graphic novel influences, which keeps players engaged despite some lackluster mission design and limited exploration incentives. However, the narrative delivery relies heavily on mission progression with minimal rewards for revisiting content, and the overall mission structure feels restrictive, impacting player immersion and the sense of adventure. Players appreciate the concept and setting but desire more expansive, exploration-driven storytelling and improved mission variety in future updates.
- “Like many other people, I really want to like this game, and there is a good concept here for some good quick fun and some interesting story.”
- “I actually quite like the world-building the devs are doing and the setting/tech/etc. It feels very Ghibli and European graphic novel influenced, both visually and story-wise.”
- “The art style feels like your imagination, like you're looking at people and places that leapt off the pages of a storybook and are acting out this grand tale before your eyes.”
- “The big environments are nice to look at, but once you realize that nothing you loot comes back to camp with you, nor does it translate into coins, there really isn't any reason to look around outside of your quest markers.”
- “I thought that maybe I could farm some quick workshop items by doing some of the other missions again, but you cannot. Redoing old missions does not give you rewards again.”
- “You have to continue to do the missions you get and with the exponential workshop costs and building enemy difficulties, it became more and more unenjoyable with heavy ammo management and a lot of hide and seek gameplay.”
graphics
12 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The graphics receive high praise for their unique, captivating art style and atmospheric level design that blends 3D and 2D elements into a storybook-like world. Though visually impressive with well-crafted characters and environments, some users report poor optimization causing stuttering even at low settings. Overall, the artistic direction strongly enhances exploration and immersion despite technical performance issues.
- “The art style feels like your imagination, like you're looking at people and places that leapt off the pages of a storybook and are acting out this grand tale before your eyes.”
- “Despite being low poly graphics, they managed to use lighting, scale, and color to make those places feel enormous, ancient, and full of mystery.”
- “Game looks great; picked it up because I loved the goofy aesthetic and the very atmospheric level design.”
- “However, the game seems to be terribly optimized and stuttered horribly even on the lowest graphics setting and resolution.”
- “They dumped all their points into visuals and exploring the game.”
- “Atmosphere and world building: the big 'gimmick' of this game is the 3D-2D hybrid graphics.”
gameplay
6 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The gameplay has a solid core and an engaging story loop that holds some interest, but it is currently hindered by repetitive missions, challenging resource management, and technical issues like low frame rates and clunky mechanics. While the art style and setting are praised, the gameplay experience feels unfinished and could benefit from further development and refinement.
- “The story and gameplay loop is interesting enough to keep your attention, even with the lackluster missions you have to slog through.”
- “Gameplay needs to be fleshed out (obviously, it's an alpha), but the core of it is really solid.”
- “You have to continue to do the missions you get and with the exponential workshop costs and building enemy difficulties it became more and more unenjoyable with heavy ammo management and a lot of hide and seek gameplay.”
- “As of October, the gameplay loop is basically, you drop into a mission, complete specific objectives, and the game immediately drops you back to the hub upon completion.”
- “Sadly my initial reaction to the barren landscapes, janky shooting mechanics that feel worse than an N64 game, and permanent 15-30 fps, is that even for an early access game, this wasn't quite ready for release.”
music
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The music in the game is highly praised for its beauty and effectiveness in setting the mood, creating a captivating ambience. Several tracks stand out enough to inspire players to seek out the soundtrack separately.
- “Another high mark is the soundtrack!”
- “A couple pieces really grabbed me and made me want to look up if the soundtrack was available to download or not.”
- “The music is also amazing.”
atmosphere
4 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game features a distinctive and immersive atmosphere, combining a unique 3D-2D hybrid visual style with strong world-building that effectively captures the feeling of exploration. Players appreciate its personal vision, engaging level design, and appealing aesthetic.
- “This game has a unique atmosphere and a very personal vision, I had a great time playing it and being lost in its universe.”
- “Game looks great, picked it up because I loved the goofy aesthetic and the very atmospheric level design.”
- “Atmospherically the game is well on the right track and nails the feeling of being an explorer.”
optimization
2 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game suffers from poor optimization, causing frequent stuttering and inconsistent performance even on the lowest graphics settings and resolutions.
- “However, the game seems to be terribly optimized and stuttered horribly even on the lowest graphics setting and resolution.”
- “Lastly, performance is a bit all over.”
stability
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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The game exhibits minor glitches occasionally, but overall remains stable, with expectations that these issues will be resolved over time.
monetization
1 mentions Positive Neutral Negative
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Users find the current monetization, which includes ads, acceptable and enjoy the game's fast-paced interactions, expressing hesitation about changing this balance despite wanting some incentives for watching ads.