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Most immersive games

by redfoxbennaton

Games that send you to different galaxies!

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Half-Life

1. Half-Life

Half Life is the most immersive games of all time. You play as Dr.Gordon Freeman who must escape Black Mesa after causing a resonance cascade! There are no cutscenes, just scripted events to push the story, completely first person, the environments and AI are interactive, the levels are well thought out, experiencing the story is like reading a book. Chapter by chapter.

Half-Life 2

2. Half-Life 2

Gordon Freeman returns to a Fascistic Combine infested Earth. Half-Life 2 does the same thing but better with more physics.

Unreal

3. Unreal

Unreal is a beautiful and immersive game. As the name suggests Unreal is the first game to run on Unreal Engine. You are a lone prisoner who escaped Vortex Rikers marooned on a planet run by the evil Skaarj to take over the Nali life forms. There are no cutscenes. There are scripted events that tell the story as well as notes. The atmosphere is stupidly dense. The sound system is good to! The levels are insane to.

Half-Life: Alyx

4. Half-Life: Alyx

Half-Life Alyx is the small minority of VR games that are actually immersive.

Dead Space

5. Dead Space

Dead Space is in much in the vain of System Shock 2 and Resident Evil 4. Dead Space did things I thought games could never do before. You play as Isaac Clark who has to investigate a space station run by a cult. The atmosphere is insanely dense and dark, manipulate physics, the story is told by scripted events, set pieces, and audio logs. There are NO cutscenes.

Resident Evil 4

6. Resident Evil 4

RE4 has a dense atmosphere that gets better and better as you play. B-tier plot. Indie movie level of subtly and pacing. -Amazing sound system -Malaise atmosphere. -Intelligent AI

System Shock 2

7. System Shock 2

System Shock 2 does many things better than any other Shock game. Probably the most scary game of all time. The player can hack, shoot or many any choice they want. Intense RPG elements. The game has little cutscenes but scripted events and audio logs to keep the pacing go along as well as set pieces.

Portal

8. Portal

Portal will immerse you in it's puzzles and physics! As well as it's story full of wit and charm. Most say it's better than Half-Life!

The Climb

9. The Climb

The Climb is the most immersive VR game Next to Half-Life Alyx. You have 2 hands and you try to climb. You really feel it. It's pretty good. If you fall you feel like you fall!

Myst

10. Myst

The entire Myst Franchise is so immersive you wish you where there! You are thrusted into a beautiful world that is long gone. You must revive the said world by solving puzzles.

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