For a genre that once risked slipping into obscurity, the immersive sim hasn't had a bad run. It's been kept afloat for the last decade by developers mining its roots, producing plenty of PC gaming favourites. Arkane's Dishonored took the eerie stealth of Thief and added a dose of industrialisation, Prey mixed System Shock 2's sci-fi horror with a gallon of GLOO, and Eidos Montreal's Deus Ex reboots revived the genre's superhuman poster child... Read more.