FPS/RPG - Immersive Sim List

[Hermit]

Immersive sim is a game genre that tries to allow the player to follow a rich story with his own playstyle, while being as immersive as possible in often vast and detailed environnements and characters. Theses games are often based on a mix of first person shooter and role playing games elements and tends to provide multiple paths for a single objective. Immersive sims are rare, often underated and not well known, This is why I'd like to list as many immersive sim as possible in this thread. However I'd like to precise that it's based only on my experience, feel free to mention each game that you think belong to this genre.

These are some notable Immersive sim:

- Ultima underworld
- Ultima underworld 2
- Strife
- System shock
- System shock 2
- Thief : The dark project
- Thief 2 : The metal age
- Thief 3 : Deadly shadow
- Thief reboot
- Arx Fatalis
- Deus ex
- Deus ex : The Invisible war
- Deus ex : Human revolution
- Deus ex : The fall
- Deus ex : Mankind divided
- Project Snowblind
- Dark Messiah of Might and Magic
- Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Shadow of Chernobyl
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Clear sky
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Call of Pripyat
- Bioshock
- Bioshock 2
- Bioshock infinite
- Singularity
- E.Y.E. Divine Cybermancy
- Syndicate (reboot)
- Dishonored
- Dishonored 2
- Prey
- City of Brass
- Consortium : The Tower
- We Happy Few *
- Daïkatana* (do that really count?)


Upcoming games :

- Underworld ascendant
- System shock remake
- System shock 3
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R. 2
- Atomic Heart
- Cyberpunk 2077

Cancelled Games :

- Arx Fatalis 2 ( actually became Dark Messiah due to Ubisoft having the rights for a M&M game and publishing Arkane at the time)
- The Crossing (cancelled Arkane title too)
- The Black Glove ( made by former Irrationnal Games devs)

* Sorry, I forgot theses :)

[sasuke uchiha]

Nice list my dude, i love games like these.

[=CrimsoN=]

You got STALKER on their but no Fallout?
My dude, they go hand in hand.

[echelon]

You should have a look at this:

https://store.steampowered.com/app/233860/Kenshi/

[Arya]

Would you consider games that are partially/fully online for this?

Because if so I'd like to add EVE Online. It was almost a social experiment; the idea was to immerse players in a simulated society and economy and see what would happen. As it turned out, murder, betrayel, and the best Emergent Stories I've ever seen in fifteen years of gaming.

[Manic Jorge]

YAKUZA 0

[pants]

how on earth did you acquire that list of my favourite games, OP, i've been keeping it a secret for years

[Alpha_pro]

Ghost of a Tale is the best immersive sim to me

[Arvaos]

I think you covered the majority but you may want to add We Happy Few.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/320240/We_Happy_Few/

[Arvaos]

https://store.steampowered.com/app/91700/EYE_Divine_Cybermancy/?curator_clanid=6860769

[Crazy Tiger]

Fallout 3, 4 and Vegas should be on the list.

[Exiled Alchemist]

Originally posted by patje.lol:

Fallout 3, 4 and Vegas should be on the list.

They don't really count for the immersion part. When the physics get buggy it can be immersion breaking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5V5p2uemOs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZpN5DlW-YM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V91O5ooJJx0

[Crazy Tiger]

Right, cause the random objects in Vampire weren't immersion breaking...

Never encountered that bug in Fallout 3, I'm still calling for them to be added.

[tmwfte]

Originally posted by ExiledAlchemist:

They don't really count for the immersion part. When the physics get buggy it can be immersion breaking.

Did you play the original Deus Ex when it came out?

[pants]

Originally posted by tmwfte:

Originally posted by ExiledAlchemist:

They don't really count for the immersion part. When the physics get buggy it can be immersion breaking.

Did you play the original Deus Ex when it came out?

OH MY GOD JC, A BOMB

[pants]

Deus Ex was so ahead of its time, it didn't even need immersion breaking physics, of which it had plenty. It had immersion breaking voice acting! I SPILL MY DRINK!