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The gameplay is very different, but for a similar sense of archeological discovery there's Heaven's Vault. It's got the open-ended exploration and the piecing together of degraded information, but it's less Eureka and more satisfied Ah of pattern recognition.

It doesn't strike the same tone or have as expansive a world, but for a metroidvania that trades on information I recommend the Swapper. You have the tools to solve every puzzle from the start even if you don't realize it, and later puzzles nudge you to rethink how your abilities fundamentally work.