Survivalcraft games. Something like Vintage Story where you struggle to survive and eventually thrive, while allowing you creativity to make yourself a comfy custom home.
Don't know if it's the MOST immersive, lotta games have sucked me in, but Death Stranding was the most surprising in that regard. I never thought I would enjoy a game about walking and delivering Amazon packages so much.
Oooh, Morrowind was a GOOD one. No hand holding tutorials or waypoints as you wandered aimlessly through a mysterious, ashen land... I remember using alchemy to make some super skooma that made me run so fast i crashed the game. It's also the first and last game i tried to mod, with disastrous...
single player or multi? I can see how the story and side activities are good for distracting one from life's woes, but the multiplayer just stresses me out.
I think I played a game with a similar premise... I suspect it's abandoned by now. Games with too many characters and options tend to scare off their own creators.
Doesn't matter if it's SFW or NSFW, what are some games you play for comfort? You know, the kind of games you retreat to for escapism when you're sick, or feeling down, or just trying to get your mind off of physical or emotional pain.
If someone's going to take the time to lovingly craft a story, the least I could do is read it. Assuming their writing is good, of course, and it becomes evident fairly quickly which way they lean on that spectrum. Poor writing gets discarded swiftly from my machine.
I'm not gonna trust an ad in a porn forum! I'll get my malware packaged with pictures of tiddies like a true red-blooded American, thank-you-very-much!
I feel the sandbox form is a more enjoyable way of presenting short stories, but it has the issue of being a pain to code and cuts into development times.
Came back to this thread after looking at a few HTML as, uh, "research"... So I think the main problem with HTML games is that they appear to be low-effort, which is also why we get an oversaturation of crappy realporn games that got abandoned when their devs realized coding isn't a walk in the...
There's a character that lounges in the menu that you can click on. If you click on her, her boobs slowly get bigger. So I set up an auto-click macro. Now the only thing I can see is a giant nipple covering the whole screen... I REGRET NOTHING!!!
Twisted World (the old version)
The Inn
Straitened Times
A Family Venture
My New Neighbors
The Lewdest House
...That's all I can think of off the top of my head, I've probably forgotten some gems.