Immercenary (1995)
Genres:Shooter
Themes:Open world, Action, Science fiction
Game modes:Single player
Story:In the future, mankind has been enslaved in a virtual reality simulation known as Perfect. This simulation is controlled by an entity known as Perfect1 and it has to be destroyed in order to shut down the system. You are Immercenary Number Five, and it's your job to do it.
From a secret lab you log into the simulation which sends you to a place in Perfect known as the Garden. Every entity in the game has a certain rank that determines its offensive and defensive capabilities. You start at 255, the lowest rank, and must rise in ranks to defeat Perfect1, who holds rank number 1. To do so, you destroy higher-ranked Rithms, as the other entities in the game are called. To pass beyond certain ranks, unique Rithms high in the Perfect hierarchy have to be destroyed.
Different weapons and power-ups can be collected and spent offensive and defensive energy can be recharged at energy spires. In the center of the Garden is a place called DOAsys, which functions as a neutral zone and healing center. There you can talk to other Rithms and ask for hints about combating special Rithms and where to find special items. These dialogue sequences take the form of live action clips of actors in elaborate costumes playing the Rithms.
When the player logs out of the simulation or is violently forced out, he returns to the lab where one may load and save a game and access detailed statistics on the trips to Perfect.Show more
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When I approach the end of 2025, I am confident that Immercenary will remain as one of my favorite gaming experiences of the year. According to my notes, I beat the game for the first time on March 15, 2025, coincidentally just as it turned 30 years old. Truthfully, this might be one of my favorite games of all-time, and easily my favorite game on the 3DO. The platform I just mentioned is precisely why I think Immercenary deserves a second chance -- It's stuck on a console with a reputation for having shovelware FMV games. While any 3DO enthusiast knows this isn't entirely true, the fact still stands that the few bright gems it has will forever be stuck on that platform unless someone does something about it. I hope that GoG is the entity that brings back Immercenary. Certainly unlike any console game released in 1995, and quite unique even when stacked up against the full history of video games as a medium, Immercenary was an ambitious open world sci-fi shooter RPG that should have been a classic. More people need to play this game and recognize the genius that came from a team of five out in Little Rock, Arkansas. It's their only game, but man, is it a good one.
I grew up with the 3DO and was surprised at how DIFFERENT this game was compared to everything else back then. It's an open world semi-rougelike shooter unlike ANYTHING else. Literally nothing else exists like this game. It's worth a re-release!
A true Hidden Gem from the 3DO console, few games were good like these one. ¡It deserves to be placed in some of the best games from 1995! It was basically enter the Matrix before the Matrix.
shoutout to humblemud digging this one out of the depths of obscure 3DO history and bringing attention to it in 2025. this is some serious archival necessity - peak era creativity.
This game isn’t just a hidden gem for the 3DO library, this is a hidden gem of gaming history. It broke the mold in so many aspects and was truly only held back by the same things that make it so charming; it’s hardware, it’s era, FMV. If this got a preservation it would be a meaningful addition to any library, potentially even providing the first English release of the more complete build, This also might inspire a redux that could give us a true shot at seeing if this really could become larger than life in the modern era.
I bought my 3DO in 1994, and over the next 2 years bought at least 20-30 games. Some were awful, some were great. But Immercenary was one of the 3-4 that i really loved and played a lot.
It had such a bizarre world and such crazy characters. The gameplay was really intense and fun. Once I learned how to power-up and use the spires, I was hooked. This would make a fantastic battle Royale style game today too.
Having a 3DO and trying to figure out how this game worked was a huge part of growing up. It is also way ahead of its time! A single-player "MMO" before MMOs were a thing. The trippy visuals were 90s flavored, sort of like playing a segment of "Gate to the Mind's Eye" or "Televoid". Being able to talk to the many enemies of the game in the main hub was also just unheard of. Honestly, if I could go back and replay this game for that 90s 3D surrealism, this is the game for it.
I think Games like Immercenary deserve to be preserved because they show that great concepts and great ideas can come from literally everywhere if your look deep enough.
It's a game that has a charm of that "Early 90's Hitek" designs and tropes that lands and is actually fun, the FMVs don't feel out of place and the game genuinely feels like it had some cool ideas that were ahead of it's time.
I hope that one day this game, along with others from it's era aren't forgotten just because they are from a forgotten console or a computer line.
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