Video game developers, designers, and scholars have devoted a substantial amount of time to understanding immersion—the psychological state in which players feel present within the game world—and ...

The first-person perspective can be a great boon in a huge range of games. It's very effective indeed at making the player feel more immersed in the experience. For example, first-person horror titles ...

Tristan Jurkovich began his career as a journalist in 2011. His childhood love of video games and writing fuel his passion for archiving this great medium’s history. He dabbles in every genre, but ...

Deathwish is a first-person action game set in the World of Darkness universe, which also includes franchises like Vampire: ...

Decrepit is a first-person action game with Soulslike combat about fighting your way out of a forsaken castle. Every death strips your gear and drags you back to the dungeons, restarting in a ...

Like Silent Hill f, we aren’t in the town in the game’s title for this adventure. Our new hero Simon Ordell instead finds himself on St. Amelia Island in Scotland. He isn’t exactly sure what’s going ...

Fans of grounded, gritty fantasy RPGs might want to keep an eye on Fatekeeper, an upcoming first-person role-playing game fueled primarily by melee combat and spells. Its reveal clearly caught the eye ...

Fresh from its reveal at The Game Awards 2025, first-person open world shooter RPG No Law is already raising eyebrows for looking a fair bit like CD Projekt’s Cyberpunk 2077. It turns out developer ...

From looter-shooters to portal-powered puzzles, these games are a literal blast from the start.

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...