You read Inscapes? I wrote on page thirty-nine about how/when playing as someone other than my approximate self is also immersive:
"I had been thinking that playing every game as my approximate self, like I wrote in The Ink That Bleeds, was needed for immersion, but I was wrong. I learned playing Untitled Moth Game that what’s actually needed is for a game to be part of the happenings and narratives of my inscape. So playing as my approximate self does that, but also, playing as the moth/princess contending with the same awful otherworld of my Dandelion Puff play was equally as consuming and immersive.
And then later I played Everything That Happens Before You Die In the Wilderness, and The Ferryman, and After the Accident, all as Lindsley within my inscape, and they were all super immersive for me too."