free-roaming

Allowing the player to move freely through a virtual world or choose the game narrative and objectives at will; an open world.

While Metroid introduced multiple endings to a linear game, other more recent designs have presented free-roaming worlds incorporating multiple gameplay paths.

Let the player trigger these in any order she chooses; this is vital because the game ceases being static and takes on the illusion of a free-roaming game.

Having the ability to move about unconstrained by reins, leashes, fences, cages, barns, and so on.

From the distance of today, my guess is that it was the free-roaming horses that had most to do with the increase in carnivores, mainly because nobody was trying to protect them.

Further, the chickens are free-roaming, which means that it is necessary for the farmers to closely watch what the birds ingest.

Not orbiting a gravitational center.

Microlensed double-image quasars have sent a consistent message that the baryonic dark matter consists of a dark population of free-roaming planet mass objects.

This would offer an explanation for some of the free-roaming planets that have been found and it could mean that more exist across the Milky Way.