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"Immersive Sim" pertains to a game design philosophy born in 1992 with the release of Ultima Underworld.

I'll break down some key components:

1) Immersive Design: game design that meets players expectations and/or doesn't remind them it's a game:

Simulated game elements and illusory scripting. Game elements are either executed in a unscripted/simulated manner, or are scripted with illusory design to come across as organic/natural to the player. Everything from the heads up display, AI behaviour and presentation, level design, to storytelling, and even often execution of RPG systems, all are variably simulated or illusory scripted.
No fourth wall breaking. "Fourth wall breaking" essentially meaning "Immersion breaking" in theatre lingo; breaking the figurative "fourth wall" and addressing the audience directly.
Consistency in all the things to a high degree: if aspects of your game are inconsistent, players notice.
Abstract elements. Let the player's imagination fill in the blanks where detail would be inferior: an example of this would be all Immersive Sims not having first person interact/grab/pickup object animations, because there are no current methods to satisfactorily achieve animations that are convincing and unintruding.
Realistic design: see: realism vs gameplay below.

2) It's still a video game, silly: the goal is not to create the ultimate simulation that is optimally immersive, but rather the blend of simulation elements, immersive design, and traditional (or not so traditional) game design concepts. Refer to "Warren Spector's Ten Commandments of Game Design" (google it) and note how each all apply to Immersive Sims, for instance. The goal is to create an Immersive Simulation Game.

3) Realism vs Gameplay: Immersive Sims are typically moderately realistic because it aligns with players expectations, making it easier to induce a state of immersion in the player. Just how realistic? It depends. Often, gameplay and the optimisation of entertainment takes precedence over realism and immersion. Far from everything aligns with reality perfectly in Immersive Sims, and nor should they. Other times, if a game feature is just too "gamey", like a score system or xp system for killing NPCs in a variety of ways, it will not make the grade for a variety of reasons (not to mention that is just flawed game design in most types of RPGs anyway). It's all about optimising entertainment and the creation of immersion both by selectively picking and choosing when one is more appropriate than the other in any given design decision. After all, both entertainment and immersion are explicitly tied: if the player finds the game utterly boring any chance of them being immersed goes out the window when he or she decides to turn the game off.

4) Open-ended gameplay and storytelling: again derived from RPGs but also expanded upon with simulated systems, gameplay and storytelling is variable and open-ended so as to create a highly dynamic, extensively replayable experience, and reward player creativity. Additionally, ideally, in every possible gameplay scenario that is directed by the plot, the related NPC/story will react to the player's course of actions appropriately, and may even do so for minor player actions.

5) "Genre-Busting" Design. Aside from often being a blend of RPG and simulation genres, Immersive Sims often go beyond the norm when it comes to gameplay genre hybrids. System Shock 2 = Survival Horror/Sneaker/Puzzler/Platformer/Shooter/RPG/Simulation. And, if you include the portable game pig, that expands even further to Text Adventure, Sports and more. Across the industry, the average number of blended gameplay genres per game is approximately something like 3. For example, Half-Life 1 = Shooter & Platformer with occassional Puzzle elements.

6) Miscellaneous: Immersive Sims are always primarily played in first person perspective. They use cutscenes very, very sparingly (intro and ending, usually) so as to not disconnect the player from the protagonist's shoes. Game over states are rarely if ever attainable through plot failures (e.g failing to protect a specific NPC) and so much more.

Emergent gameplay: as a result of simulated and highly dynamic elements an Immersive Sim is deep enough so as to work in ways the developers never feasibly predicted. This is a double-edged sword though, as it can result in both positive and negative results. Bugs and glitches are the negative. But when it works out positively, it's usually really cool. Emergent gameplay is not a concept unique to the Immersive Sim, however. Any game with moderate complexity is bound to feature it in some form. Many of these concepts aren't unique when taken alone. It's the sum of them all and the spectacular execution that makes the Immersive Sim what it is.

All these design concepts can be selectively bent or ignored to better suit your game, but even slightly too much of that and you no longer get an Immersive Sim...which is what Human Revolution and MD are: games that only loosely follow the design ingenuity of the Immersive Sim. While Dishonored more accurately qualifies as an Immersive Sim, it too bends the rules and spits in the face of tradition and not in any innovative or commendable way.

While the Immersive Sim is a design philosophy, the term is also used to identify it as a genre of game, which is appropriate since the philosophy defines absolutely ALL aspects of design.

For a better understanding of what the Immersive Sim is, I highly recommend playing System Shock 2, the original Deus Ex and Arx Fatalis back to back, the peak of the genre and from which it was all downhill imo. Afterwards, if you're still curious (if you're not, I suspect you were dropped on your head as a child :P), then try Ultima Underworld, the original System Shock and Thief to expand your understanding even further.

I say an Immersive Sim is a clever balancing act of gameplay and realism, simulated and scripted elements, entertainment and deeper meaning...

Disclaimer: Just what exactly is an Immersive Sim? There's not been any books written on the subject. This is my interpretation as someone with a ardent interest in game design and the Immersive Sim in particular, years of playing the games and analysing them, the reading of dev interviews and published articles on the subject, and finally culminating in trying my own hand at adding something worthwhile with GMDX (mod of the original Deus Ex). Furthermore, this is only the tip of the iceburg; a short summary. There's many finer intricacies that makes the Immersive Sim what it is. But that's for another time, a more in-depth write up.
Отсюда: https://www.reddit.com/r/Deusex/comments/6uoo9d/immersive_sim_what_is_it/