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Hiking sims, but unironically

Ranarama

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Miasmata sounds ideal for you. It's hiking, unique walking mechanics (i.e. you walk downhill you need to hold backwards to slow your descent), has orienteering based on triangulation with landmarks.

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Zed Duke of Banville

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The Faery Tale Adventure (1986) by David Joiner was the hiking simulator of the future, though sadly underappreciated in its own time:

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I second the mention of Outward, released earlier this year, which features multiple logistical constraints, 3D graphics, and 4 distinct zones to hike through:

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Nifft Batuff

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I think if you look at indie games you will find a lot of examples were you just have to hike and little else.
 
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Robinson Requiem (1994) had interesting exploration and survival elements in it, especially on the health and hunger departments. Sadly, it has aged pretty badly, like lots of early 3D titles.

Otherwise, best exploration in a video game I played those last years was in the already mentionned Breath of the Wild, where just getting on top of the next mountain range can be and objective in itself.
 

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How about 7 Days to Die? These survival building games aren't really my thing, but I remember hiking across half the map looking for a good place to build my pathetic wooden fort and having quite a good time. It's got the food/water thing as well as stuff to see and scavenge if that's your bag.
 

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DayZ and Kingdome Come Deliverance for beautifully crafted czech forests and countryside.
 

Beastro

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IMind you, hiking is not exploration, that is you do not discover hidden secrets and snippets of the world gone by, but you simply cross the terrain.

You lost me there.

I'd think for anyone the whole enjoyment of the hiking simulator factor in a game is what you emergently encounter (especially fight) and discover.

May I ask a question: Have you ever hiked, IRL? Cus a big thing about it is exploration. Going your own way, even if differently along the same trails and trying to discover new stuff you didn't notice before. Heck, last month I went to some local falls I'd never heard of until this year and found the trip too easy, so decided to follow the river to see if it emptied into a lake I'd never been to. It did and I realized the ravine I'd gone through following the river had been the exact same one I'd noticed while at a mall looking out at our nearby mountain it flows down.

Even a damn walk around town is exploration, even if you walk the same damn route, you'll notice things have changed here and there.

I'm logistically challenged (ie. can't walk too far on my own)
Which is why I play games right

Unless you've got some major problem you can't change like fucked up knees or some disease that messes with you, like a friend of mine has Crohn's like symptoms, wants to walk but going more than 100 feet at a time results in him shitty blood for a week, then the only thing keeping you from walking it you're not used to it and that will change.

I ran into that being sick myself and unable to walk in my teens, but in my 20s I got into it, then lost access to a car and began carrying groceries home, walking from place to place sitting to rest, until I finally was able to make the distance in one go. After that I got into the habit of wandering around town finding new roads and alleys I'd never gone down to explore inbetween trail hikes.

It takes time, and my health still isn't that great, but with enough food and water I've reached that stage where I can walk for as long as I want, even if I'll have trouble and pay for it tomorrow.

Start, see what you can do. If it's weight fucking with you, lightening the load to pull it off is a good goal to use to lose it for. My brothers friends wife ran into that walking with them, and even losing like 20 pounds made the difference on her knees.
 
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No idea if it fits your criteria but 'The Forest'. If you completely ignore the tree house building BS it has great atmosphere and tension while exploring. And also a fuck off YUGE cavern complex that was incredibly fun to map out.
 

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The Long Dark sounds like what your looking for. It has some combat in the form of fighting off wolves and hunting shit for food, but it's mostly about getting from A to B while managing your resources so you don't die a horrible death.
 

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