NOTHING LASTS FOREVER

In IMMORTALITY, art is a force that creates and destroys

- Kaile Hultner

NEED TO KNOW

WHAT IS IT? An immersive interactive movie where you are the editor and the film might be haunted

EXPECT TO PAY £20/Free on PC Game Pass

DEVELOPER Sam Barlow, Half Mermaid

PUBLISHER Half Mermaid

REVIEWED ON AMD Ryzen 5 3500U, Radeon Vega Mobile Gfx 2.10 GHz, 12 GB RAM

MULTIPLAYER No

LINK halfmermaid.co

Where does art come from? What makes creating a film different from writing a letter or inventing the toaster? Does it come from within us, or is it, sort of, all around us, y’know? This is the realm of philosophy that Immortality delves into as you unravel its FMV-led mysteries. It is presented less as a game and more as a box set of forgotten (and fictional) French model and actor Marissa Marcel’s filmography.

Players begin with a question posed in the Short History of Marissa Marcel, written by Immortality director Sam Barlow: what happened to the actor? Why has she been absent for 20 years? Why were none of her movies released? Where is she now?