This game is frankly exceptional.

Every immersive sim you've ever played owes its skeleton to this because it's the foundation of the entire genre, and it's honestly very impressive how little that framework has really changed in the decades since. The visuals and the interface may betray its age - the interface in particular is unusual and takes some getting used to, but once you're comfortable with it it's a brilliant relic of the time when the standards of games were still being figured out and developers were unafraid to do unusual things with such basic elements - but the actual gameplay holds up perfectly well, in terms of atmosphere it's still hard competition to any modern competitor, and SHODAN is a brilliantly sinister antagonist.

This game is frankly exceptional. Every immersive sim you've ever played owes its skeleton to this because it's the foundation of the entire genre, and it's honestly very impressive how little that framework has really changed in the decades since. The visuals and the interface may betray its age - the interface in particular is unusual and takes some getting used to, but once you're comfortable with it it's a brilliant relic of the time when the standards of games were still being figured out and developers were unafraid to do unusual things with such basic elements - but the actual gameplay holds up perfectly well, in terms of atmosphere it's still hard competition to any modern competitor, and SHODAN is a brilliantly sinister antagonist.