Overview
Exploration is a core pillar of Honor of Kings: World, built to reward curiosity across every corner of Primaera's 64 square kilometer open world. The game fills its landscape with over 200 points of interest, more than 30 dungeons, over 500 collectibles, and 50 or more fast travel points. This density ensures that players rarely travel for long without encountering something worth investigating, whether that is a hidden chest, an environmental puzzle, a lore fragment, or a new enemy encounter.
Traversal Methods
The scale of the open world is matched by a diverse set of movement tools. Players can ride horses and hoverboards across open terrain, deploy gliders from high points for controlled descents, use grappling hooks to scale vertical surfaces and swing across gaps, and even take to the skies on flying mounts. Each traversal method opens up different exploration paths. A cliff face that blocks a ground-level approach can be bypassed with a grappling hook or approached from above with a glider. This layered approach to movement means that the same area can be explored in multiple ways depending on the player's available tools.
Sword flight offers another option for aerial traversal. Players ride their weapon through the air, covering distances quickly while enjoying a distinctive visual presentation rooted in the game's eastern fantasy aesthetic. The combination of practical utility and stylistic flair makes sword flight one of the most visually memorable traversal methods in the game.
Environmental Puzzles
Scattered throughout Primaera are environmental puzzles that require players to interact with the world in creative ways. Some puzzles involve using elemental abilities to manipulate the environment; for example, freezing a waterfall to create a climbable ice wall, or igniting dry brush to reveal a hidden passage. Others are spatial puzzles that require moving objects, activating switches in a specific order, or navigating timed platforming challenges.
The puzzles range in complexity from simple interactions that can be solved in seconds to multi-step challenges that require exploring an entire area to find all the components. Rewards for solving puzzles include crafting materials, equipment, lore documents, and occasionally access to hidden dungeon entrances.
Kun Roaming
Kun Roaming is a dedicated exploration gameplay mode that encourages players to seek out secrets and landmarks across the world. The system marks areas of interest on the map and provides hints about hidden content in each region, guiding players toward discoveries they might otherwise miss. Completing Kun Roaming objectives rewards exploration-specific currency and collectibles that track a player's progress toward fully uncovering each zone.
The Kun Roaming system is a structured framework layered on top of the open-ended exploration. Players who enjoy methodically completing each region can follow the Kun Roaming prompts, while those who prefer undirected wandering can ignore the system entirely and still stumble upon the same content organically.
Dungeons
The 30-plus dungeons in the game range from small caves with a handful of encounters to multi-room complexes with boss fights, puzzles, and unique environmental hazards. Dungeons are distributed throughout the open world and are often hidden behind exploration challenges; finding the entrance can be as much of a puzzle as clearing the dungeon itself. Some dungeons are designed for solo play, while others scale up for cooperative groups of two to four players.
Collectibles and Fast Travel
With over 500 collectibles spread across the world, dedicated explorers have significant incentive to comb every area thoroughly. Collectibles include lore fragments that flesh out Primaera's history, crafting recipes, rare materials, and cosmetic rewards. The 50-plus fast travel points are unlocked by discovering and activating waypoints throughout the map, gradually building a network of instant-travel nodes that reduce backtracking as the player progresses.
The density of content ensures that exploration remains rewarding throughout the entire gameplay experience. Even players who have completed the main story will find new things to discover by revisiting earlier areas with traversal tools and abilities they did not have during their first visit.