2022 Was the Year of the Immersive Sim Comeback
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
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2022 was a good year for Immersive Sims, a comeback dare I say. We got A LOT of stuff this year: Abermore, Blood West, Weird West, Ctrl Alt Ego, and more! Lets roundup the year with what came out, the promising early access ImSims, what's (Still) written off, and what's coming up in 2023!
LINKS!
Warren Spector's Blog Post in re Immersive Sims
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Abermore
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My video on it: • Abermore: The Immersiv...
Weird West
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My video on it: • Weird West: Immersive ...
Ctrl Alt Ego
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My video on it: • Ctrl Alt Ego is the Be...
Blood West
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My video on it: • Blood West: The Spooki...
Gloomwood
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My video on it: • Gloomwood is Finally H...
Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
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Gamedeveloper is Paradox CEO: Bloodlines 2 still exists
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System Shock Remake
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KS post in re Backer Beta soon(TM)
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KS post with them at Cons and people saying they still don't have that beta in the comments
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VentureBeat: How Warren Spector got back to making his latest game
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IGN: Ghost of Tsushima Writer Joins Bioshock 4 as Narrative Lead
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An ARG that never happened
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Peripeteia
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My video on (the demo) • Peripeteia: The Upcomi...
Corpus Edax
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VG247: Square Enix sold off Western studios due to concern of Japanese game sales being "cannibalised"
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NME: Embracer Group completes acquisition of ‘Tomb Raider’ and ‘Deus Ex’ studios
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PC Gamer: Embracer Group wants to make a lot of Deus Ex and Tomb Raider
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Jason Schrier's Twitter (because Bloomberg has a paywall) In re old Eidos Montreal project being cancelled
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Gameindustry: East meets West: Yosuke Matsuda on growing Square Enix's global empire
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Gameindustry: Saudi Arabia acquires $1bn stake in Embracer Group
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PC Gamer: Guardians of the Galaxy/Deus Ex prequel writer is BioWare's new senior narrative director
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JUDAS (Ken Levine's game)
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Neverlooted Dungeon
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Spectra
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SCP: Fragmented Minds
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Imprisoned Hyperion
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Chapters:
00:00 Intro
01:45 Full Releases
01:53 Abermore
04:27 Weird West
07:10 Ctrl Alt Ego
08:37 Promising Early Access Games
09:12 Blood West
11:16 Gloomwood
14:11 Deadeye Deepfake Simulacrum
16:04 Write-Offs
16:22 Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2
18:12 System Shock Remake
19:50 System Shock 3
20:35 ImSims to look forward to in 2023
20:50 Peripeteia
21:55 Corpus Edax
22:19 DEUS EX IS BACK BABY
24:22 JUDAS (That thin Ken Levine has been working on for nearly a decade)
25:22 Lightning round
26:30 It was a good year for Immersive Sims
27:45 Talking shop: I'm done playing the Algorithm game
33:57 Cat video. Frisk is a blanket lump
I almost hit the character limit for descriptions... Woah. 
Игры
Merry Christmas and happy holidays everyone! There's always room in the discord if you wanna come by discord.gg/J59vxy6D
I subbed to you after that rant, it's nice seeing larger channels have the same feelings as I do as a content creator
To the "Talk shop" section, FUCKING AMEN!
I appreciate the organized timestamps on this vid
Man, the speech about not playing youtube's game was... one of the most inspiring things I've heard in some time!
You go king!
I had the biggest grin by the end of it.
I love this fucking channel and I love all of you guys too. Never forget that!
Absolute king shit, real human bean moment
Great speech! Amen :)
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🙏🙏🙏🔥🔥🔥
Cruelty Squad really marked the genre's return to form for me
Too bad it burns my eyes.
@@Gatorade69 Skill issue.
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You get used to it
@@kasra8255 Nah dude, I'm a speedrunner but it doesn't help that by the end of the run my eyes are bleeding.
skill issue, no CEO mindset
Just gotta add that Streets of Rogue 2 is coming in 2023 as well! It's incorporating all the immersive simm-y stuff from the original into an open world! Steam page is up right now with some screenshots and details. (full disclosure I'm the dev :D)
Fuck yea more SOR
hyped for the new vehicle mechanics in particular, looks like theyll be a fun addition
Madguy you just made my day! Absolutely love SOR and can't wait to play the sequel
bro you are the true goat. SOR1 was insane. Super polished but still robust. Me & the wife put 400hrs into it.
We're dying for SOR. DYINGGGGG BROOO
so that was a fucking lie
I wasn't expecting that ending and you have no idea how happy I am to hear you're going to do whatever you want. I love irregular video uploads and the cooking segments are based.
So glad to learn I'm not the only person hating the term "content", the biggest devaluation of someone's creativity both in games and around them I've heard in my life. A full shitter also has "content" but you don't spend a lifetime learning to create and then creating it. Screw that shit.
At this point immersive sims is anything that after 5 playthroughs there's still thing that makes me say : "You can do THAT ?!"
So Breath of the Wild 👀?
Do the Gothic series and GTA SA count?
Then the souls/born/ring series is that, but instead of box stacking, it's buffs stacking
its a meaningless descriptor, and not a genre. Literally every game's goal is to be immersive and to simulate. Even if you go to the bullet-points from various websites that try to quantify "immersive sims" its literally bullshit fluff that can apply to any game.
@@mechanicalmonk2020 i explored the whole map in 60 hours including dlc shizz and.... there's really nothing left. that game is basically an app or mobile game, and about as full of content. BOTW is 1/10th the game skyrim was, and with botw coming out 3 years later that's hella uninpressive.
Was about to start a legal petition for enforced reinstatement of your beard, but, damn. Ending touched my hardened soul, man. Thats how creator should feel IMO and thats what people should hear. You, sir, just got yourself a backer - there is alot of great entertainers out there, but few willing to speak up a worthy thought. Thanks.
Cheers and hugs from Ukraine and happy holidays.
Don't worry, the beards coming back. It's just a matter of time
I'm not much of a commenter, but damn that end got me wanting to say this. Thank you for being yourself through all of this and making videos (that I only found two years ago so I'm late) that I look forward to every time you release a new one. I truly look forward to what you will continue to put out; sticking to your gut. Thank you again, and a happy Christmas and New Year's with your family.
I'm glad you're thinking about your mental health and having a healthy work-life balance! I hope your 2023 is even better than this year was!
I'm a huge ImSim fan and I love to see your love for the genre, it's truly inspiring... so screw youtube man, you do you! We'll all still be here whenever you decide to upload a new video, cheering you on! :D
Love your end of the year immersive sim videos! Thanks for all you do! Merry Christmas and happy new year!
Unrelated: daily reminder that Warren Spector didn't start calling Deus Ex fans crazy until he started making Disney games!
What does that mean to you? Did Disney push him to make such statements?
what being a goofy fella does to a mf
@@HoboHunterRik What? Oh I think I get it. You guys are anti-semites and anything you don't like is because of jews. Though I still don't know what the C word is supposed to be.. cunt?
Or did the Deus Ex fans diss him for making crap Disney games and he took it badly?
@@edgepixel8467 so epic Mickey 1 and 2 erases his pedigree? Also you know it took a whole team to create deus ex right? People need to quit this whole game director worship nonsense.
Hey, I just wanna say I really appreciate everything you've done. I'm glad you're getting the help you need, and I do really appreciate the cooking segments, they've helped me improve as a chef!
That ending was fuckin amazing. Thank you so much for just being so open and down to earth about everything. I will forever and always watch any video you release, and look forward to the amazing videos you will put out in the coming years.
Yay! New Charlatan! I'd been waiting for your last video of the year! Thank you and Merry Christmas! And thank you for being vulnerable and sharing about your mental health and staying committed to who you are.
Damn bro, I love your attitude at the end of the vid! I've been watching you for at least two years now and gotta say you were the one who showed me that a specific kind of games I enjoy has a name - immersive sim. I used to backtrack your channel, searching new titles to check out. Man, I'm so greatful for VTMB, Pathologic 2 and Cruelty Squad. Keep up the great work, I wish you all best and hope the channel will grow against all odds. Merry Christmas!
I've been following your channel for a little while now, always loved the passion you put into your videos. It's become one of my favorites alongside people like Jacob Geller, and as someone who is also struggling heavily with depression, your speech about the desire to create art in the face of marketability cut a little too deep.
RUclips's greatest strength to me has always been about enjoying the shared experience of making some cool/funny/interesting shit, for the absolute fuck of it, because it's fun. Some of the most enjoyment I've extracted from this site was watching shoddily made Gmod machinimas, stick figure flash animations, lego stopmotion, youtube poops, wonderful covers of my favorite songs etc etc. You're touching on stuff that's much deeper than fighting an algorithm, stuff people like Nietzsche and Camus and Proust have clamored on and on about. Humans were never meant to be "products" or "brands", toddlers don't pick up crayons with the market in mind. Art is a sanctuary we create for ourselves, it has the power to color all aspects of life and that sense of humanity will always matter more than notoriety in the long run. And fuck what anyone else says, video games are art!
I like to think this kind of stuff still matters to a lot of people, like myself, and we're rooting for you. I don't have the means to donate at the moment, but the minute I do I most definitely will. Keep up the fight brother
I love your videos, and probably discovered you through those immersive sim ones. Thank you for doing what you're doing!
charl i been watching you since your kenshi video, and it was what got me into that masterpiece of a game. your videos are great, you got me to try so many new games, and especially helped me figure out what kind of games i like, even if i have to wait months for an upload that’s worth it for me, take care of yourself charl!
The idea of abandoning the word content and instead realising what you're doing is art is beautiful, only just found you and this makes me want to do what I do even more and not shove any reaction faces in my thumbnail due to fear of overdosing on bad sewage. I hope you go even further than you have and kick all of the dead eye smiles into a box you can safely keep locked away under some sort of wooden IKEA mattress.
just wanted to comment that the ending segment was extremely truthful and very inspiring.
i really do agree that when it comes to people and their creations, undermining yourself by becoming a so-called content creator instead of a true artist honing their craft (whether it be through music, or in this case a visual art such as video-making) just to pump out videos that pander to the masses instead of what *you* really want to create, really does diminish individuality, if i am interpreting the message correctly. i am very sorry for what you've gone through recently, and i hope 2023 is an excellent year for you! keep doing what you're doing man
your easily one my favorite youtubers of all time, strictly with how real you are, I can safely say ive never seen a fake version of you and thats what i like. I hope you keep doin what your doin, cuz creators are dying off by the second by shilling themselves to corpos and algorithms. If you keep making videos, I'll send you money whenever i can because at least I know all of that is going towards making your shit better
You are the best immersive sim gaming channel on RUclips!
I think I might be one of the only ones too. It's a tough niche to break into
@@CharlatanWonder True, but it is still going very strong and only seems to be growing year by year thanks to new games and content creators like you. You guys are an inspiration for future immersive sim channels, games. Hopefully, things will snowball from there :)
as someone who is just discovering how much I love ImSims, I found your channel while searching for games to play. I found so so many gems to play and had a very good time.
the outro about RUclips, weirdly made me cry. I know this video is almost a year old but I really appreciate you and your videos and I am SO glad you are going to keep being you.
I hope you are doing better, Love you
genuinely so happy that you're doing better, and hell yeah man!! i love all your videos, but i and everyone else loves them way more if you're genuinely happy and interested in making them, while also taking care of yourself in the process. merry christmas, happy hanukkah, cool kwanzaa, nice yule, and whatever else people do/don't celebrate. you got this man 💪💪
Hey champ. Amazing Video. I never saw any of your videos you were just randomly on my recomended tab. your ending was really moving. i'm in a similar mental state. i don't know why but it's a tuff winter. but tuff times never last. at some point we must embrace our suffering and live on for the sake of living. i wish you alot of strength and you defenitely earned a new subscriber. God bless you, man! And Merry Christmas (or whatever you may be ccelebrating) :D
Powerful ending my dude. Glad you are finding yourself in a good place. Love your work and your art.
im not big into immersive sims, but the thoughtful way you talk about games and making art is so refreshing, you've got a sub from me.
Man, the second to last segment really hit the nail on the head. Your videos are awesome and it's great that you are prioritizing your own well-being and health over arbitrary content creation. Wish you all the best with any future endeavours and happy holidays!
Man I didn't come here for that outro but I couldn't click away, thanks a lot buddy hope you find yourself and make this already good channel work even better in the process.
27:47 Glad to hear that you're getting out of the RUclips "success" rut and feeling better. Always happy when people get help for themselves and are comfortable with talking about it, making it more accessible and less stigmatized. 32:06 This feels great to hear someone say. We're in such an expansive information era that all this wonderful art from creative people just gets categorized as something to consume, rather than appreciate, be it games or the videos about them. So long as you strive to make something you're proud of, people will recognize that passion and integrity.
You go Charl! Keeping to a tight schedule to output repetitive hottakes on whatever is trendy is the king of content I abhore, especially with pogface thumbnails. Please do keep on making videos on things you're passionate about and I sincerely hope you can continue making a living off it.
Man.... I found your channel only recently, but totally love your format and am in line with your views about ImSims... The "rant" at the end was so....honest, true, inspiring... Thank you for deciding to stick to being you and not giving in to the corpo pressure... Although I can't support financially right now (2 kids, crisis coming etc..), whenever I will be able to, you'll be the first on my Patreons-to-subscribe-to list.. Keep up the great work, thanks and bye!
love your videos, super happy to hear you're doing better! here's to a better year!
Sad to hear about your struggles with RUclips. That speech at the end was amazing! You make amazing videos, so don't let the current situation affect you! Hope you'll make the stuff you want to make and nothing more.
Happy Holidays!
I hugely respect you sticking to making videos the way you want, authentic to yourself! This vid was great, I'm looking forward to the next!
also pls dont stop the cooking content, i love those fun parts as a nice break in between the video
You do you, Charl, I enjoy your videos :) I hope you have a great holiday season, love whatever you fling our way!
I've been utterly seethed over the Immersive Sim tag on Steam, so I'm happy to have someone out here who genuinely loves the genre to help put these titles out there. Thanks homie!
Huzzah to refreshed Charl coming next year. Food, cats and my sort of games in one place will always be my RUclips jam !
Your speech at the end was, I say this with all sincerity, one of the most inspiring things I've heard in recent memory. Keep on keeping on.
Happy holidays, man! Take care of yourself and stay safe.
I've almost never commented on any RUclips video, but as I was watching this on my phone I 100% realized that I needed to hop on my computer just so I can subscribe to you. you sir are an artist at work and have earned a subscriber
Love your work Charl, it's been a pleasure to watch the channel grow! And this next step seems like the most logical step not only for your health, but your creativity too.
Loved that speech at the end, Charl. I don't post often, but I felt compelled to wish you the best of luck!
Keep doing what you're doing. We love it, and I for one am willing to pay for it.
"I want to spend Christmas with my family." Please do Charl! God bless you and have a merry Christmas! You've earned it!
This upload is the unexpected Christmas gift I love, especially since I get to open it early. Merry Christmas to the cat that speaks directly into my brain and Merry Christmas for all.
You`re awesome. Just wanted to mention that. Happy Holidays!
Happy New Year Charlaton, you too, Mr. Frisk!
Your speech at the end is inspiring and a breath of fresh air!! Creators need to be driven by passion and not fear of making money or an unfeeling algorithm!!
Very inspiring ending. As someone who is going to start his own gaming RUclips channel I appreciate hearing that. What I'll be covering will be pretty niche so my mindset is geared toward doing it for myself, and if I get some sort of small fanbase great. Anyway, I'm glad you turned your mental health around and I wish you continued success with that and your other endeavors.
Piked up Ctrl Alt Ego by your advice, played an hour and I'm already loving it, thank you
Charl starts his Joker arc and I'm all for it. Fuck the algorithm!
Great video and an even greater ending, keep doing you!
Hey man, love your stuff. Happy holidays.
I love the ending section, keep it up man, we’re proud of you!
Fantastic video, loved the depth and passion, you just earned a sub.
I'm suddenly filled with determination and it wasn't the BIG SOUP I made last week. Keep up the great work Charl and stay saucy.
I enjoy your vids so much even if they are not recommended I regularly check your channel for new ones.
I didn't see the last four or five of your videos because you RUclips decided I didn't need to see them.
I'm happy to see you're getting off the algorithm treadmill man. Good on ya. Happy holidays and happy new year man. Here's to another successful year on your terms.
Started searching for immersive sim on RUclips and found your vids. The shitty algo sometimes works. Thanks for the video, especially the last part about not becoming slop manufacturer.
love you Char, Thank you for everything you do!
Love the vid king, excited to see what 2023 brings! I’m glad you’re making what YOU want, because your videos are truly unique and one of a kind. 😊
Love your vids Charlatan. Your love of imsims shines through
Couldnt wait for this video, it was great! Also hope you get better!
god lord dude, keep it up, your videos are amazing keep enjoy doing them!
Wow. Super proud of you, dude! What you said at the end of the video must have been a long time coming, but most importantly, hard. Massive respect!
Hope you have a better year next year. Been a fan for awhile, always love your ‘content’ and especially appreciate another cat lover. I loathe the word myself, and dissolving any art down to ‘content’ makes me think of a product, not something someone made. Do what makes you happy, I’m glad you reject the norm. I like to listen to your videos while I’m out feeding a feral colony I take care of, it’s my zen haha. Keep goin’, your videos are great.
Respect to the end of the video.
Best of luck and glad tidings.
Best part of the video is the rant at the end. Totally unexpected, but amazing.
thx for introducing CTRL ALT EGO to me. I realy need to cover more of your videos
even if u either didnt like or just dont remember Deathpool. The Second good MCU Film franchise since 2004
Just subscribed to your Patreon. I definitely agree with your stance against the algorithm
man that rant of yours, totally earned my sub :) Keep on making content dude :)
Fantastic speech at the end. Keep doing you! Definitely on the short list of youtube channels where I like the video before I start playing it.
Shit I didn't know about Ctrl Alt Ego, looks fantastic fam thanks for having it in the video. Immediately purchased it, it's like 15 gigs as well so let's go!
spittin bars at the end there i loved that, need the charlatan wonder mixtape interlude in 2023. Thanks for being true to yourself
Happy xmass, and love your ending. Fck content. Long live cooking segments and random niche stuff
Love the content and respect the stance, hope to see your work continue into the new year! Cheers.
i loved this video so much. thank you so much for all of your videos, love your content.
Good for you, Charl. I hope it works out. You're definitely one of my favorite creators on this hell scape of a website.
"There will be no consistency, there will be no marketability."
I love how this is said with rage and honesty. Reminds me of when Super Bunny Hop made the thumbnail of one of his videos a rock.
You may not be my favorite RUclipsr, but you might be the one I respect the most. The part where you said "there will be no RAID SHADOW LEGENDS" was God damn legendary
Love your vids man, keep up the good work. To all immersive sims fans out there, take a look at Shadows of the doubt”, it will release (hopefully) next year. Happy holidays everybody.
the music really made that ending speech there, bravo
I love your content sm, keep up the good work 🧘
Wow! Amazing video- thanks for the shoutout!!
Speech about not monetizing passion got me. Keep it up!
That ending monologue was so god damn great I can barely comprehend it. You really put words to why I like you so much despite having zero interest in games.
I remember your video from about a year ago of you hoping for more immersive sim games. And now we have more of them. 😆 hopefully these games release fully sometime soon.
Also, I loved your rant at the end of the video. I love the transparency about what RUclips's up to bc others can also see their bullshit.
Please keep up the good work. Also as wondering if you might cover the game colony ship.
one of my favourite creator not wanting to bow down to youtube is one of the nicest news to hear around this time :)
I for one fell in love with your channel because you didn't do the POG face or ad shit. You can tell more and more who really are passionate in making videos now adays and who are just trying to make money. Keep being you Char and I'll keep watching.
I love that ending rant. I think you’ve just earned my Patreon sub.
The thing that jumped to me in gloomwood the most is that fancy-looking pistol isn't actually "less lethal" option but instead MORE LETHAL AND ALSO MESSIER OPTION. Fuck those "tranquilizer darts", they are fake anyway, instead you can SET ENEMIES ABLAZE.
Hi I admire how your videos are educative and funny and have everytime Cat who makes me happy.
we shall defeat da youtube algorithm! i wish the best for you on your endeavor and i enjoy ur content lots
Ctrl Alt Ego is an unbelievable game. It's a crime it's only got a few hundred reviews on Steam
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Fuck all things that pressure inspiration. You gotta do what you love and thats it! Much love and happy new year
awesome video dude, keep it up man
Oh man, it's so dope that DDS got featured, it's been one of the better games I played this year, even with just the hacking you got a ton of stuff to play and a ton of missions to do. I highly recommend it right now.