Immortality: A Game That Shook The Internet With Its Game of The Year Nomination

It is mostly known that every ‘Game of the Year’ nomination has a very strong presence in the gaming community. If not very popular, the nominated games somehow manage to get fans to play them as a onetime-experience due to their uniqueness.

But the game ‘Immortality’ is capable of doing something no other game has ever done before. A mysterious game filled with a unique substance of horror and suspense, the game is a hidden masterpiece. If not the Game of the Year, it can be even considered as the Game of the Century. Here’s why?

Immortality isn’t a game

Recently, you would have come across several games that use the ARG method to convince their players that they are not a game but rather a piece of real software used by real people, but later forgotten. One such example of this type of game is Inscryption. A brilliantly crafted game that doesn’t follow the conventional gameplay method, but rather uses its uniqueness to differentiate itself from all other games.

Immortality, more or less, does the same, but in a much more gory fashion. The game has a separate Content Warning tab on the opening screen itself that tells players that the game contains a lot of explicit content. But despite all this, there is a mysterious soundtrack and a lady from the 1970s & 80s that gives out a sense of mystery.

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While navigating through the game, you will also find that the game is actually divided into several segments, trying to tell a story of a woman. On further investigation, you will find out that the game is actually real-life footage of a would-be actress Marissa Marcel, who mysteriously disappeared and was never found.

Why is this game a nominee for the Game of the Year?

Thus, the question arises if the game is just another mystery-solving game, why is it nominated for the game of the year? Well, because it’s a sort of experiment, combining film direction, acting, and storytelling.

Immortality is an experimental film that uses the cover of a game to explore the hidden details of it. But a good story always has a good ending, thus if you think that the game is just about searching for a disappeared movie star, then think again, you might be wrong all along.

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Immortality is nominated for 3 categories for the Game of the Year awards, them being Best Game Direction, Best Performance, and Best Narrative. What are your thoughts on this? Let us know in the comments below.