Our highest-reviewed game of 2022 so far is immediately on Game Pass

Half Mermaid, the three-person studio led by FMV maestro Sam Barlow, released its latest game today. It’s called Immortality, and like Barlow’s past games, it’s a live action video adventure in which players steer the storytelling by watching mysterious scenes out of order. We gave it a glowing 95% (opens in new tab) in our review, calling it Barlow’s “best, most thought-provoking game yet.” That’s literally all I want to know about a story-heavy game before giving it a shot myself.

It’s times like these that I’m happy to still be a Game Pass subscriber. Immortality is available to play immediately if you’re a member. Barlow’s games are a perfect match for the Game Pass library—short, sweet, single-serving narratives that I’ll almost certainly never play a second time. At least, that’s how it’s gone so far with 2015’s Her Story (90% (opens in new tab)) and 2019’s Telling Lies (87% (opens in new tab)), both of which are also on Game Pass at the moment.