• Enter The Matrix [Ties Into The Matrix Resurrections]

• Avatar: Frontiers Of Pandora [Co-Exists With The Avatar Movies]

• Ghostbusters: The Video Game [Acts As A Sequel To Ghostbusters II]

• Marvel’s Spider-Man (2018) [Exists In The Spider-Verse]

• The Thing [Takes The Mystery Out Of The Movie’s Ending]

• Saw: The Video Game [Saw’s Creators Contributed To The Game]

• Mad Max [Introduced Furiosa’s Main Villain]

• The Lord Of The Rings Online [Expands The World Of Middle-Earth]

• Star Wars Jedi: Survivor [Part Of The Star Wars Timeline]

• Kingdom Hearts 3 [The Toy Story world is meant to take place before Toy Story 3 in the canon timeline of the movies.]

Some of these are a stretch, imo

Cool, so I’ll wait to pick this game up until it’s $10 on a steam sale in 5 years, and play the community’s modded version.

Not at all, please read my comment again.

Good job. I have never felt the need to Google that since I never had a reason to question what I thought it meant.

I want to thank you for asking this question, and also explain why for the, “just google it” crowd.

I have believed for the last 10+ years that this meant combat-rpg. My ignorance would never have been fixed if someone hadn’t asked the question in a place like this; I never would have googled the answer to a question I didn’t have.

How many more serious questions out there would benefit from more discussion, rather than individual research?

Alright, take my soap box from me.

The old adage is relevant here:

Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.

So, is “immersive sim” just a vaguely plot-driven game in a setting with good world building?

I agree with you. I also sympathize with the above comment’s sentiment. The issue is that a lot of games released on PC / other consoles take much longer to release on the Switch, if they come over at all. (ie Red Dead Redemption 2 may just now be coming to the Switch)

So a PlayStation owner for example will have a much larger library of quality games to choose from.

This is why I have found myself personally touching my Switch a couple times a year versus every day like I used to.

Pointing to a franchise that has been incredibly stale and unimaginative for years now and using that to condemn video games as a whole is pretty misguided, I think.