See that mountain in the distance? You can actually go there!
That concept has become a trope of open world game design, but it takes on a different meaning when I think about it in Baby Steps, the walking simulator from the developers of Ape Out: Gabe Cuzzillo, Maxi Boch, and Bennett Foddy (of Getting Over It and QWOP fame).
Yes, there's a massive, snowcapped mountain looming in the distance in the open world of Baby Steps, but unlike when I first set my eyes on Skyrim's tallest peak...