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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The just-announced Bloodmoored is a first-person psychological horror game for PC where you try to escape an abandoned ...

Neon White is the most acclaimed game in this month’s offerings. It is a speedrunning-focused first-person game that came out in 2022, garnering a high average score of 89. Neon White has guns, but it ...

Indie game developer and publisher Running With Scissors announced their latest game in development, as we got our first look at Flesh & Wire. This is a horror first-person shooter where you play a ...

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 ...