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 ...

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 introduces an incredible number of variables, as ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

Immersive sims are a rare breed in the gaming landscape. They are games that whisper "what if?" instead of shouting, "do this." They also come with layered systems and focus on open-ended ...

The immersive sim might be the most ambitious concept a room of developers has ever drawn out, nodded at, and subsequently convinced a room of publishers to bankroll. It’s a maximalist genre of ...

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 ...

"Stranded alone at a gas station in the middle of the desert. Dark Rituals. Demonic Pursuers. No escape," that's the short pitch for Ad Infernum, an in-development immersive sim from Glass Knuckle ...