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The Immortal

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Your old mentor Mordamir has disappeared - probably kidnapped. You're not too sure where he might be, but a dungeon is always a good place to look, so you seek out the nearest one and plunge into its depths. Beware: eight levels of traps and deadly enemies await. The Immortal is an isometric g...

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Developer
Electronic Arts

Released on
1991

Size
1 Player

Version
Sega Genesis

Requirements
Sega Genesis

Downloads
Action

ESRB Rating
Not Rated

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Your old mentor Mordamir has disappeared – probably kidnapped. You’re not too sure where he might be, but a dungeon is always a good place to look, so you seek out the nearest one and plunge into its depths. Beware: eight levels of traps and deadly enemies await.

The Immortal is an isometric game with puzzle-solving and action combat. Progress is made by encountering a hazard, dying, solving the problem, encountering the next hazard. To solve a level, you have to know its traps and their patterns by heart. The puzzles range from simple avoidance of traps to the correct use of items; you collect objects in an inventory. Every now and then, the game offers a special challenge. For example, you’ve got to ride a magic carpet through a hallway full of fire traps, or ride a barrel on an underground river.

The dungeon isn’t empty: some friendly characters may have valuable information or trade items, the nasty sort of guys will attack. Combat is fought man-to-man on a special screen. Your adversary indicates his next attack a few seconds before he executes it, so you’ve got time to react appropriately. You can dodge to the left or the right, as well as attack from these two directions. There is no save option in the game, but you may restart each level as often as you like. Levels can be skipped by entering passwords.

The Immortal

Overview & History

Developed by Will Harvey and originally published by Electronic Arts, The Immortal made its grueling descent onto the Sega Genesis in 1991, following its earlier Apple II and MS-DOS debuts. Standing out from the era's standard side-scrolling platformers, this dark isometric fantasy RPG-adventure is notorious for its unflinching difficulty, dreary dungeon atmosphere, and famously gruesome, highly detailed death animations. You control an unnamed wizard descending deep into the treacherous Labyrinth of Eternity in search of your missing mentor, Mordamir, navigating a perilous underworld populated by goblins, trolls, giant worms, and deadly traps.

Gameplay Features & Mechanics

Unlike traditional action titles, The Immortal blends slow, methodical puzzle-solving with tense, 3D-perspective melee combat. Progression requires careful exploration, potion brewing, spellcasting, and interacting with subterranean denizens. If you misstep on a trapped floor tile or fail to properly time a defensive block, you will trigger one of the game's iconic, visceral fatalities—ranging from being dissolved by acid to torn apart by goblins. The combat shifts to a dedicated dueling screen whenever you encounter an enemy, requiring precise timing for sword thrusts, parries, and retreating.