Game Report: Return of the Obra Dinn

One of the things that lots of games seem to desperately chase is a sense of "immersion." These days, that seems to usually mean super-realistic physics, fancy lighting techniques, and of course high-rez graphics. And yet, if immersion is about how deeply you're pulled into a game, how much you get a good sense of its world and the people in it, I think one of my most immersive experiences in recent memory was in a game that has almost no non-player motion, two-tone graphics, and a pixelated effect that looks like I'm running it on the already-outdated computers in my elementary-school computer lab.

( No spoilers, just long! )