Cass Marshall identified that some indie developers were able to create successive immersive sims by single-person or small teams, including Shadows of Doubt, Corpus Edax and Ctrl Alt Ego.

Arkane's Harvey Smith believed that while the sales trends for immersive sims in the 2010s were disappointing, there will always be a market for them but there will be a need to balance the cost of development to lower sales numbers. Smith attributes