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As a battle mage, Jak wields different types of magic that act as stand-ins for a familiar arsenal of precision (Blue Magic), rapid-fire (Green Magic), and heavy (Red Magic) attacks. Therein lies the most interesting throughline for Immortals of Aveum, in that the fast-paced and hectic combat is explosive, challenging, and also very weird. Read: Immortals of Aveum wants to make magic hardcore again The game aims for a more exciting speed, which is very much in keeping with the pace of the game’s sense of action. This made getting into the game’s world feel easy, as opposed to having to contend with dense and sprawling lore from the outset, like The Lord of the Rings or The Wheel of Time.

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While the setting of Immortals of Aveum is high-fantasy through and through, leaning hard on the familiar sword & sorcery trappings, the style and tone of it felt more like a popcorn action film or TV series, somewhat similar to the recent Dungeons and Dragons: Honor Among Thieves. Of course, combat encounters come first, but I did get a sense that it was leaning into those familiar RPG moments, with you gradually unraveling its visually stunning world. While Immortals is a story-driven game set across different chapters, each of which whisks you away to other areas of the world, it was clear from the opening hours that it’s actually a larger game with hidden secrets and points of exploration, including spaces where you can interact with townsfolk. As Jak gains new powers and artefacts while completing missions, he’ll uncover a larger conspiracy that reveals a more significant threat, which puts all those in the realm at risk. With his aptitude for spellcraft, he gets recruited into an ancient order of mages known as the Immortals, to fight in a long-standing war that has spread worldwide. Immortals of Aveum focuses on the story of Jak, a young battle mage with the rare ability to wield three forms of powerful magic simultaneously. I got taken with the idea of rethinking traditional FPS combat and the intuitive nature of handling a gun in a game, and all within a magical setting, which was exciting.’ ‘I still have my Hexen and Heretic discs back from when they were first released. ‘When we first started coming up with the game, the idea of doing a first-person shooter without guns was super interesting – like how would that work?’ said Warnke about the early days of developing Immortals.

According to Warke, Immortals of Aveum began with rethinking tropes for the popular first-person shooter genre – the most obvious one being about how an FPS always puts a gun in the hands of a protagonist.