Immersive sims are traditionally thought of as single-player titles. They can be really dense and systems-heavy games in which having even one player introduces an incredible number of variables, as that one player uses the freedom they’re afforded to tackle situations in any number of ways. It takes no small amount of creative ingenuity and coding wizardry to allow for all those possibilities, and that would only be magnified by the presence of another player, or a whole set of other players. T
Multiplayer? With randoms, hard pass. With friends-only, sure, why not.
But I’d still rather save scumm my way through immersive sims on my own like I usually do, I don’t need witnesses to my shame.
It only got called save-scumming when consoles were unable to save outside of their precious save points.
For us who have always played on PC it was called playing the game.