What Are DF's Favourite Immersive Sim Games Of All-Time?

[drealms]

Life of Black Tiger has to be up near the top. Its so immersive I start forgetting I'm not a tiger during long gaming sessions.

[Gabrilos]

This genre should come back, and urgently

[blast_processing]

It's a damn shame that Arkane Studios' Prey never got a sequel, or a remake as a 2D metroidvania.

[vuxpee]

Thief: The Dark Project is my favorite

[karolis.burzinskas]

Alien Isolation, Dishonored: Death Of The Outsider, Prey, System Shock 2, Deus Ex: Mankind Divided. Flashback on Genesis is immersive af :D

The immersive sim genre is probably the best in gaming, because of its complexity from year to year, and from game to game. Strategy, 4X, and simulation games are great too, but immersive sims are the best, at least for me.

[blabo]

Hot Take: I consider that Metal Gear Solid V transcended the stealth genre and became a good Immersive sim.

[spandel]

John said what I have always been saying.Deus Ex and System Shock 2...two of my favourite games of all time.Deus Ex is the only game to keep me up till after 2am on a work night.

[MultiAmmar]

Every time I hear "Immersive Sim" I can't stop thinking of how stupid that term is.

[hrafnafadhir]

I would lovingly call mid-2000’s Euro games “stiff”.

[willianjohnam]

Prey 2017 is awesome.
I would also mention Thief: The Dark Project and Deus Ex: Human Revolution. I really enjoyed these games on pc back in the day.

[JJSideshowBob]

I've never quite understood why these games are called "immersive sims", which doesn't seem like a good term to summarize them, but they're all great.

[eugkra]

I had no idea these were "Sims". I thought we were talking like Flight Sim or MechWarrior.

[Makrss]

I really like old Deus Ex and the newer ones.
But if I may, I consider Alien Isolation to be an immersive sim as well so that would br my favorite.

[HellShredder]

Nightdive Studios could remake the original Deus Ex (AHEM), and it would be the biggest thing to happen since the Oblivion remaster that came out recently. If not Nightdive, Bloober proved themselves capable with The Observer/System Redux edition. (RIP Rutger Hauer)

[treeokk]

I swear, there’s always a sea of nerds that have a hissy fit when you say a game is an immersive sim. it’s so annoying lmao. Don’t get mad at us for using a genre tag that’s on hundreds of games on steam and has OBVIOUSLY stuck within that community. Plenty of notable games have come out in the indie scene for example and many more are in development, and people love them. It’s just so pretentious to keep complaining about it at this point. Immersive sims don’t play like FPS games and it’s ridiculous to say that. Prey or System Shock 2 does NOT play like Wolfenstein or DOOM or COD or a billion other games. The stealth in farcry isn’t the same as stealth in dishonored or thief it’s not even close. The level design philosophies are also fundamentally different from your standard linear fps design. So many people in the comments are making it seem like having emergent systems and dozens of pathways in a game is dumb easy to do and every game does it which is soooo far removed from reality. The stealth in dishonored ISNT the same as assassins creed. I feel like 50% of the people who say all this played deus ex and system shock 2, didn’t see the big deal cos they never experimented and are now acting like every game does what those games do/did when majority of games don’t even give you an option for 90% of the things you do in the game lol

[eirianrobotto]

Real life is probably the ultimate immersive sim. It's so immersive you can play immersive sims in it. /hj

[taproot]

Crulity Squad is my favorite personality.

[Bdestiny]

Metro Exodus is the best immersive sim imo

[ecventr]

The "Immersive Sim" term that was settled on for this gerne really is not doing it any favours. The gerne is immersive sure, but implying these are simulations is neither true cause they just have isolated systems that happen to interact coherently with each other if the devs build them that way (and most of the time they do this deliberately, e.g. think multiple pathways), nor does this characterization seem to attract people to these games, cause in peoples minds a sim is not a game but usually just an experience like Flight Simulator or racing sims, while Immersive Sims are the full game package and then some. I think these games need an evolution of perception and the right kind of communication to attract people like what RPGs went through in the 2000s. There is nothing fundamentally niche with this games that prevents them from achieving success, if a turn based RPG like BG3 can do it anything can.

[Arnold_]

Didn’t play those who were released before 2010 so Dishonored 1 for me, close to Deus Ex HR. Prey was good but I wasn’t a fan of the enemies (I prefer humans who you can throw of a cliff), felt less fun, Weird West is good, so is Deathloop but less « im sim » imo.
Now looking towards playing System Shock Remake!