> There is a trend to call many modern games "immersive sims" and somehow they don't produce such stories. For what it's worth, "immersive sim" is more a sub-g

> There is a trend to call many modern games "immersive sims" and somehow they don't produce such stories. For what it's worth, "immersive sim" is more a sub-genre of first-person action game (games with a heavy focus on world-building, player choice, and stealth, heavily inspired by the games Thief and Deus Ex) than a descriptor. It fit better when it was first introduced in the early aughts, when those games were notably more interactive than the more static worlds of fast-paced, action-first, twitchy shooters of the era (Quake, Half-Life, Unreal, etc).