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Re:Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain by cubefox on Monday May 29, 2023 @02:03PM (#36116337)
There are also "sandboxy" games like the open world Zelda, with a chemistry/physics system and multiple-solution puzzles, but wouldn't quite fit the prototypical immersive sim, as there is still fairly limited NPC interaction. Maybe those count just as systemic games in the wider sense.
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Re:Deus Ex – Alpha Terrain by ethbr0 on Monday May 29, 2023 @11:43PM (#36120900)
I'd hazard that a good summary definition might be "game rules are universally applicable."

In that if there is a rule/mechanism anywhere, it can be used everywhere, with anything responding to it.

Or in Dwarf Fortress + OO/Smalltalk/message terms: every object can and must respond to every message. (to the extent technically possible)

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