I forgot to mention the game has a great voice lineup!
09.03.2026 18:08
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I forgot to mention the game has a great voice lineup!
Immersive sim is when you don't know if you're doing it right but it worked anyway.
If you search Dishonored or BioShock 2 in the end-game desktop search bar, The Magic Cricle will tell you they're great games!
100%'d The Magic Circle. It's half an immersive sim where you assign verbs to different minions to explore and solve problems, and half a fourth wall-breaking fever dream where the developers invite you on a sweat and tears behind-the-scenes tour.
- Krafton is said to "have not once stepped in"
- "We're confident that we're going to appeal to all the imsim fans, and we know we're going to appeal to a lot of the openworld, shooter and narrative guys, the cyberpunk fans - maybe a lot of people coming from The Ascent"
- The team caps at about 25 people with limited external support and has an average age of 40, in a way it's more similar to Raf Colantonio's WolfEye Studios: "a haven for hands-on veterans looking to punch above their weight"
- The game also supports stealthy and hacky play style: shooting lights, stunning enemies, muting sound, hacking...; When you a more experienced with hacking, your "heavy button presses of an elder gent" will turn into "fluid touch typing"
- Characters will comment on your ruthless actions but without sense of judgement, you don't get punished or rewarded for how you play, learning from lessons of Deus Ex and Dishonored
- The city is an outlaw zone between 3 countries in conflict, there are also peacekeepers and local gangsters in the city, high bounty on you will make enemies shoot you on sight; don't expect to win a fight with peacekeeper mechs easily
- You can choose to pay for groceries or rush out of the store, affecting reputation; Killing a shopkeeper and their store will be permanently closed; You can kill anyone, the game will remind you if you want to reload because an important NPC died, but you can choose to continue
- World building is inspired by Deus Ex and Dishonored and aims to ease the burden on the player
- The city Port Desire is flanked by jungle and coast on two sides without invisible wall boundaries; it's dense and highly-detailed: grocery store are rich of objects of fascination
Important new information from NO LAW, a cyberpunk immersive sim FPS (Edge #421): 🧵
I was expelled from the Party. "Every comrade saw you jumping there, it was embarrasing!", they said.
The dev added no dithering option to the early playtest today
Beautiful risings gamers,
Spectra demo is out RIGHT NOW
From the developer of Legend of Grimrock and Noita:
store.steampowered.com/app/3989530/...
I have tried the playtest/demo for this System Shock-inspired puzzler FPS-RPG, it's pretty neat!
❤️
Today (March 3) is the Chinese Lantern Festival, which marks the end of the Chinese New Year. I pray for peace, harmony, prosperity, happiness for all.
Spectra
Death to imperialism.
Two ways to win a free key when Rhell @slugglove.bsky.social launches on March 12 <3
- Answer a new quiz every day until March 10
forms.gle/1vwSyLFYN4xV...
- Play the Rhell demo for more than one hour
gleam.io/qHtPj/rhell-...
Did you play any immersive sim demos at the Steam Next Fest?
1️⃣ Hark the Ghou: Kings Field-inspired action dungeon crawler
2️⃣ Rhell: semi-open-world adventure puzzler
3️⃣ Cralon: Ultima Underworld-inspired old school dungeon crawler
4️⃣ Blood Facsimile: surreal sci-fi shooter
Did you do the sign-up last year?
Thick As Thieves (pvpve multiplayer stealth game by OtherSide Entertainment, Warren Spector, Greg LoPiccolo, and Paul Neurath) playtest invitations have been sent out!
I think I'm going back to singleplayer immersive sims soon 🫰
Building a contraption to send yourself high up:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=py-g...
Using explosion blast to turn fixed explosive mine into a mobile nuke:
bsky.app/profile/sinn...
Stacking traps to climb, fly with ARC rockets, and cancel fall damage:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyRd...
