[romanzubenko]

I really really wish, there was a VR game/app where I can transport myself to different places/times in the past and just walk around to get the texture and feel for what it felt like living in that time.

Walking around a Roman town, hearing what people talked like, what they wore, what technology was around, what did they do most of the day.

Someone please make it real.

[devnulll]

The Assassin’s Creed Odyssey game, set in classical Greece, has a feature like this. It works really well as a teaching tool, and the immersion is excellent. Even today, the overall quality of the graphics and the game still holds up.

The “education mode” is officially called Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece. It removes all combat, enemies, and time pressure from the game and turns it into a large, interactive, open-air virtual museum.

https://www.ubisoft.com/en-us/game/assassins-creed/discovery...

My kids have actually used this (without any prompting from me) in middle school history classes.

There’s also a Story Mode, which lets players build their own narratives and share them. It can be quite a lot of fun.

https://assassinscreed.ubisoft.com/story-creator-mode/en-us

[satvikpendem]

There are discovery tours for the other modern AC games too included if you own the base game.

[bwv848]

I don’t understand why folks mention AC games first when this kind of thing is brought up, KCD is not perfect but much better for historical accuracy.

[thunderfork]

To be clear, they're taking about an "edutainment mode" feature, and not the standard game with its narrative about templar-aliens.

[soperj]

I wish there was a "camping mode" for Breath of the Wild. Would be fun just to fish and hunt and camp.

[wonkyfruit]

It's coming. I actually imagine it will seem trivial in a few years. "Better Than Life" from Red Dwarf is the next tier of computer games I guess. They wrote that episode back in the late 80s or early 90s and here we are with Google Genie 3 and the models that will supersede it.

[michaelbuckbee]

Assassin's Creed Brotherhood is kind of like that for the architecture and period it covers.

There's an interesting small YT channel that did a series on ACB + History

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hebq-fObdhY

[evantahler]

Check out the city builder Nova Roma - it’s got these apartments! https://store.steampowered.com/app/2426530/Nova_Roma/

[nottorp]

Hm is that any good if i'm an old Caesar/Pharaoh player?

[satvikpendem]

For ancient Rome there is The Forgotten City.