Curious Expedition is a 2016 roguelike-adventure video game developed by Maschinen-Mensch for Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, and Xbox One. The player takes control of a party who attempts to navigate through several lost locations on Earth, each one created through procedural generation. Reviewers have praised the game as charming and challenging, but others have criticized it as repetitive. Wikipedia
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Djemili, Riad. “Memorable Stories from Simple Rules in Curious Expedition.” In Procedural Storytelling in Game Design, pp. 127-134. AK Peters/CRC Press, 2019.
Johnson, Mark. “When Darwin Met Lovecraft: Generating Mystery and Discovery in The Curious Expedition.” In The Rise of the Roguelite, pp. 18-35. CRC Press, 2025.
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