Immersive sim
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An immersive sim is a genre of videogame in which you play in first person and you can pick up and move boxes in order to solve a problem. Sometimes you have to put points into box lifting, but if you can lift and move a box to solve a problem, and you play from a first person perspective, the game is an immersive sim.
History
Once upon a time there was a prospector named Warren who became trapped inside a gold mine after a collapse. Unable to escape, he attempted to use crates of mining supplies in order to reach a vent, so that he could escape. While he managed to stack the boxes successfully, his tower toppled and he was crushed under their weight, killing him instantly.
Years later a video game company would be build atop the abandoned mineshaft. The ghost of Warren, now named Warren Specter, haunted the video game company, and would roam up and down the corridors screaming about stacking boxes. The developers at the company decided to make an interactive box stacking simulation game in his memory, in hopes this would calm his soul. Because they are played from a first person perspective, they are immersive. SIM is an acronym for Sokoban Is Mechanics.
The new game idea was a hit, but it was unsuccessful in exorcising the spirit. Some say he haunts the abandoned videogame offices to this day.
List of immersive sims
| Name of the Game | Release Date | When do you stack boxes? |
|---|---|---|
| Deus Ex | The Nineties | Once you have the arm augmentation that lets you do it |
| Pathways into Darkness | 1993 | You have to put a box inside another box as part of a puzzle |
| Jurassic Park Trespasser | 1998 | Basically all the fucking time |
| System Shock 2 | 1999 | I think you stacked boxes at some point but I'll be honest I didn't get very far in this one |
| Half Life 2 | 2003 | Barney fucking makes you do it in the tutorial |
| Pathologic | 2005 | You should snort multiple snuff boxes in a row and see what happens |
| Dark Messiah of Might and Magic | 2006 | Knocking stacks of crates onto enemies is one of the best ways to kill them |
| Bioshock | 2007 | I'm stacking up all the boxes I have from all the copies of Bioshock I've managed to accumulate over the years why do people keep giving these to me? |
| The New Prey | Idk like 2017? | Not only can you stack boxes rawdog but the game gives you a box stacking gun |
| BitchSpace | 2025 | The meaning of life |
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