It's a genre where you have to decide what to do, you have to choose how to interact with the world. It's not the kind of genre where you just solve a puzzle the designer created for you, or kill everything that moves and you win. The immersive simulation is not the kind of game where if you keep moving forward, like a shark, you'll eventually win. "The reality is we ask people to work," he told. At Reboot Develop, we asked Warren Spector - known for immersive sims, including Deus Ex, Thief and System Shock - why the segment is struggling. It would be easy to argue the genre is dying, at least at the level of major publishers, and the scope of such projects makes them difficult for indies to deliver. Immersive sims is a genre all about choice, but fans are rapidly running out of them.ĭeus Ex, Thief and Dishonored are all on hiatus following the disappointing performance of their latest outings, and the poor reception for Underworld Ascendant (the spiritual successor to Ultima Underworld, deemed by many to be the first immersive sim) makes a follow-up unlikely.
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