The Mines of Immortia 12+

A fun mix of choice and chance!

There’s a lot to like in The Mines of Immortia: good presentation, an engaging but not too serious writing style, and a fun mix of Choose Your Own Adventure style interactive fiction choice with the occasional randomness of the Powered by the Apocalypse skill check system. This game would also serve as a good demo for someone new to tabletop RPGs who wonders what a game of Dungeon World might be like.

To the developer: this was a lot of fun! If you update this game or make another like it, please consider implementing the option for the player to save their progress. After my first few deaths I gave up on starting over all the way from the beginning. But this is a small issue in an otherwise enjoyable experience. To the mines!

Has potential, but ...

Success is almost entirely based on 2d6 die-rolls where actions fail on a roll of 6 or less which almost alway results in death. With no bookmark/save function, you have to restart from the beginning after dying which becomes a real grind after only a few runs. I appreciate the challenge of permadeath but not when it’s based almost entirely on RNG.

Developer Response ,

That’s pretty fair criticism. Thank you for that. I don’t think it’s something I can really fix in this game without a really serious systemic overhaul, but I’ll definitely work on making future games fail forward more.