One thing that the gaming community can never seem to agree on is genre definitions. What exactly is a visual novel, and what’s the real difference between psychological and survival horror? Genres ...

WolfEye, the studio founded by Dishonored co-creator Raphael Colantonio, has a new game coming out. It's apparently a first-person immersive sim with a structure between Prey and Fallout: New Vegas, ...

Explaining himself, Colantonio said "If you really think about it, Bethesda games - or Obsidian games - are very, very immersive sim. The overlap between first-person RPG and immersive sim, it's very ...

We may earn a commission from links on this page. Immersive sims are traditionally thought of as single-player titles. They can be really dense and systems-heavy games in which having even one player ...

Jack Coleman (He/Him) is a Lead Editor from Ireland. This is his third full year in games media, having previously worked freelance for various outlets, including NME. A lifelong gamer, Jack is ...

If you like Doom, Dead Space, retro FPS games, and disco, I may have found the perfect game for you, with one of the best trailers I've seen in quite some time. All the above elements and the ...

The producer of Deus Ex and System Shock remains committed to immersive sims but wants to bring something new to the mix. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate ...

Immersive Sim is a genre of video games that you definitely should play. It’s not something you get to see all the time, floating around like the other popular video games. Most importantly, everyone ...

If you miss old-school Thief or immersive sims like Deus Ex and Dishonored, there are plenty of indies carrying on the legacy. The newly released Selaco channels the genre in surprising ways, but we ...

That shift has placed new emphasis on physical locomotion as a core layer of immersive systems. The ability to walk terrain, ...