A new game from WolfEye, the studio founded by Dishonored co-creator Raphael Colantonio, has been announced. Apparently a first-person immersive sim with a structure somewhere between "Prey" and "Fallout: New Vegas," it's exactly the kind of story we at PC Gamer HQ need to revitalize our advertising engine.

Colantonio was recently interviewed by PC Gamer's Joshua Wolens, who went into what exactly an immersive sim is. It turns out that Colantonio's definition is unusually broad. When asked why there are no Call of Duty-level hits in the genre, he replied, "There are: it's Skyrim."

"If you think about it, Bethesda games and Obsidian games are very immersive sim games," said Colantonio.

"The overlap between first-person RPGs and immersive sims is very blurry: it's less physical and more statistical than Arkane's games, but ultimately it's entirely simulation-driven. It's definitely the same immersive experience of putting a bucket over a merchant's head and trying to trick him. [Colantonio is not the first to declare that Bethesda's open-world RPGs belong in the bucket of immersive simulations. Our history of best immersive sims includes "Oblivion," whose physics engine (which can do outrageous things like stack paintbrushes to build ladders) and stealth-focused missions like those for the Dark Brotherhood, a dark organization, are close brothers to "Deus Ex" The rationale for this is that it is.

Colantonio, known for "Prey," "Weird West," and "Dark Messiah of Might & Magic," clarified what he meant, saying, "We have always made immersive sims. Always have been and always will be. But now, when it comes to the general stuff, you can make an action immersive sim or you can make an RPG immersive sim. I don't want to speak for Bethesda, but I would be surprised if they said, 'Oh, it's totally different. Their games rely heavily on simulation.'

One RPG that relies heavily on simulation is Baldur's Gate 3. It has been compared to an immersive sim because of its willingness to let you rob a bank by stacking 45 crates on top of each other in order to get the best position to fire a magic arrow. Similar hijinks were possible in Larian's previous RPG, Divinity Original Sin 2.

"I see 'Baldur's Gate' as at least adjacent to an immersive sim," replied Colantonio. If being turn-based still makes sense as an immersive sim. I loved the game, by the way. Baldur's Gate was a great game.

Finally, on the subject of what defines the immersive sim subgenre, Colantonio said To me, immersive sims are real-time, and some people say that immersive sims are first-person perspective. So it's about where do you draw the line?