Mortalus: The Quest for Immortality

The player is the squire of a noble lord, Sir John of Harrow, riding upon an abandoned castle. The player's lord instructs the player that he is there to meet the head of a devoted order named the Dark Brotherhood, attended to by the Servants of the Hand. After Sir John leaves to meet them, the player meets Peter, a former novice of the Brotherhood. Peter says that Sir John is in fact aiming to join the Brotherhood and the player has been marked to die. To escape this fate, John tasks the player to read the Dark Book of Knowledge to locate the Chalice, which can grant them immortality and the power to defeat the Brotherhood.^[2]

Expressing that the game was "short, simple and uninspired", John Altman of Computer Games Strategy Plus praised the visuals, but critiqued the game's "comically bad" action sequences, "god-awful" dialogue and "mediocre" video.^[3] Despite praising the graphics of Mortalus, Sage Friedman of Mac Gamers' Ledge did not recommend the game, considering the plot to be "ugly" and "cliche-ridden", as well as its combat and live-action performances.^[2] Ultimate PC similarly critiqued the game's "pathetic" battle sequences for lacking challenge or skill, and that its web capabilities had been overstated by the developer as it was "nothing more than a boring adventure title with the opportunity to access a Web site".^[4]