A tragic circumstance and a case study, Abermore is marked by the harshest of the imsim curse of dev hell, a game which could have been one of the best in its genres is instead one of the worst.

An acquired taste, E.Y.E's polarizing and dense odyssey of player freedom, stylish action and personal guilt is charming, deeply compelling and endlessly replayable, an experience unlike any other.

Arkane's debut is a dungeon crawler drenched in atmosphere, offering some of the most detailed gameplay and world-building in the genre, even if its gameplay choices focus too much on melee and magic.

Deathloop is a betrayal of Arkane's own history - It fails as an immersive sim, it fails as an FPS, it fails as a roguelite, it fails as a stealth game, and it fails with its narrative.

While a better remaster than that of the first game, it still features a lot of the same A.I., audio, performance and crash-related technical problems as the first remaster.

This remaster of a classic immersive sim, although still playable, provides a huge amount of technical issues - As well as breaking many important A.I. functions and downgrading the audio quality.

Cruelty Squad offers on-point comedic and dramatic satire and philosophy on life in the modern age, and some of the best and most idiosyncratic sandbox gameplay and levels of any immersive sim.

Modernizing elements of the original sometimes to its detriment, System Shock 2 continues mastery of immersion, open-ended levels and a twisted, engaging narrative with excellent music and sound.

Some could say its outdated due to its clunky UI and controls, but most won't deny the mastery of search action level design, atmosphere and an open-ended sandbox that pioneered immersive sim design.

Mankind Divided worsens the combat and stealth, but with a tradeoff for even better level design and much improved worldbuilding, while maintaining its profound themes on technology and excellent OST.