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What is immersion to you? (thelemmy.club)
submitted 7 months ago* by to c/games@lemmy.world
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I find my brain extremely happy when a game provides ample opportunity to make connections, like in Dwarf Fortress, where I watch an event unfold, which can stir my creativity and imagination like nothing else. Writing a story out of it is extremely smooth and easy compared to other sandbox games.

I also find myself in love with immersive sims like Desu Ex and Thief, where level design and exploration take a front seat, every map is like a big playground with verticality and branching paths, where you find secrets and lore hidden around every corner in an atmospheric world.

What is immersion to you?

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[–] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Zomboid, for me personally, is one of the most immersive games. It's a life sim with such in depth mechanics i feel like my character is an actual person growing

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 7 months ago (1 child)

    I kinda know what you mean, but I come from Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead, not Zomboid. I lost my first character when I was happily siphoning gas from cars. At the same time, I was too relaxed and bumped headfirst into a gang of giant wasps, can't fight or run because I was carrying a steel jerrycan, RIP. That was a month of work with this character. xD

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