# The 27 Best Immersive Sims of All Time

> Lockpick, vent crawl, or blast through the front door: these are the games that let you decide, and then live with the mess. Cult classics and big-studio hits share the shelf.

*By YPB Team · Published October 23, 2026 · https://youpick.best/ranking/the-27-best-immersive-sims-of-all-time*

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1. **Deus Ex** — score 1000/1000
   Ion Storm's 2000 cyberpunk conspiracy RPG where every mission can be solved in several ways.
2. **System Shock 2** — score 626/1000
   The 1999 first-person horror RPG set aboard the starship Von Braun.
3. **Dark Messiah of Might and Magic** — score 626/1000
   Arkane's 2006 fantasy action game built on physics-driven combat.
4. **Deus Ex: Human Revolution** — score 607/1000
   Eidos Montreal's 2011 prequel about augmented security chief Adam Jensen.
5. **Thief II: The Metal Age** — score 542/1000
   The 1999 sequel in which master thief Garrett takes on the Mechanists.
6. **Arx Fatalis** — score 492/1000
   Arkane's 2002 debut, a first-person dungeon crawler with gesture-drawn spells.
7. **Dishonored** — score 492/1000
   Arkane's 2012 stealth-action game about a framed royal bodyguard turned assassin.
8. **Ultima Underworld** — score 491/1000
   The 1992 first-person dungeon RPG that laid the groundwork for the genre.
9. **Prey (2017)** — score 491/1000
   Arkane Austin's space-station thriller with shape-shifting Typhon and the GLOO Cannon.
10. **Gloomwood** — score 491/1000
   A 2023 Victorian-horror stealth game blending Thief and survival horror.
11. **Deathloop** — score 491/1000
   Arkane Lyon's 2021 time-loop shooter on the island of Blackreef.
12. **Cruelty Squad** — score 434/1000
   Consumer Softproducts' 2021 grotesque, hyper-flexible stealth shooter.
13. **BioShock 2** — score 434/1000
   The 2010 return to Rapture playing as a Big Daddy.
14. **S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl** — score 434/1000
   GSC's 2007 open-zone survival shooter set in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone.
15. **Dishonored: Death of the Outsider** — score 367/1000
   The 2017 standalone expansion starring Billie Lurk.
16. **Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines** — score 367/1000
   Troika's 2004 cult-classic vampire RPG set in Los Angeles.
17. **BioShock** — score 289/1000
   The 2007 spiritual successor to System Shock, set in the underwater city of Rapture.
18. **Dishonored 2** — score 289/1000
   The 2016 sequel with two playable protagonists and the clockwork mansion.
19. **System Shock (2023)** — score 289/1000
   Nightdive's ground-up remake of the 1994 original, released in 2023.
20. **Ultima Underworld II** — score 289/1000
   The 1993 sequel, Labyrinth of Worlds, with a larger and more complex setting.
21. **Deus Ex: Mankind Divided** — score 289/1000
   The 2016 sequel that returns Adam Jensen to a segregated, augmentation-wary Prague.
22. **Deus Ex: Invisible War** — score 197/1000
   The 2003 sequel that streamlined the series with universal ammo and a faction-driven plot.
23. **Thief: The Dark Project** — score 197/1000
   The 1998 game that invented first-person stealth with light, shadow and sound.
24. **The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay** — score 0/1000
   Starbreeze's 2004 first-person stealth-brawler prison break.
25. **System Shock** — score 0/1000
   Looking Glass's 1994 sci-fi horror classic that introduced the rogue AI SHODAN.
26. **Thief: Deadly Shadows** — score 0/1000
   The 2004 third Thief game with a hub city and third-person camera option.
27. **Weird West** — score 0/1000
   WolfEye's 2022 top-down immersive sim set in a supernatural Old West.

Tags: games, horror, rpg, stealth, immersive sim