For more immersun and real oldskull turn off monitor and play in complete darkness with sounds only - at least in areas without lightsource -
using paper and pencil should be considered as cheating worth of casual noobs.
Is there anything better than get lost for 10 hours while you have angry wife and bunch of children, job, other hobbies outside the game?
It will be great with Oculus Rift to see nothing! But OR is for casuals, real hardcores use something like this while playing dark and mature crpgs :
Step 1: "Im going to play my hardcore crpg honey, can i borrow your freaking cool paper box? "
Step 2: Hmphh, oldchool they said... , maps they said... , manuals theuy said... i will take more serious approach... let's cut here...
Step3: Now im true Codexian!
Go play as true pro, join the Elite, no compromises.
It has multiplayer too:
[to be clear: I love Underrail, own it and love it , one of best crpgs released in last year ]