Immortality Game

Immortality from Half Mermaid games is a game like nothing I’ve ever seen before. You’re curating clips of movies about a missing film star from the past. The clips include out-takes, interviews and chunks of three different movies. You can pick the clips from a menu, or you can click on items in them to transition to a linked artefact in a different clip. The content is pretty grown up and the atmosphere of movie production is very well created, as are the kinds of dodgy movies that got made before everyone could get all the dodgy stuff they wanted via the internet.

So far, so murder mystery. Then things take a serious left turn that I don’t want to tell you about because you really should play the game for yourself. It must have taken a huge amount of effort to get the look and the performances that make the whole thing work. It’s both a tour-de-force and a really engrossing experience. The game is out on Xbox game pass. You really should take a look at it, but it is not one for the kids.