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The evil Necromancer and his demonic servants have conquered the land. All the people of the Earth have been enslaved. All the great sorcerers are being held captive except for one - you. Your mission is to rescue your fellow sorcerers and save the Earth before it is plunged into eternal darkness. You will have to be quick as time is running out.

Sorcery is a 15-screen arcade adventure. Your sorcerer starts somewhere on the right-hand edge of the screen and you must reach the gate on the left to get onto the next level. Demonic servants have been sent by the Necromancer to stop you so you must watch your energy when you go into battle with them: if it reaches zero, you're dead.

A very good title screen sets the atmosphere. Old-fashioned lettering scrolls across the TV set, wishes you good luck and tells you the control keys. Unfortunately, the choice of keys is particularly silly. The left and right keys are one above the other and would have been easier to use if they had been on the same row of the keyboard. The scenes all have a title. You start in a forest and must pass through wastelands and castles before you reach your goal. Graphics are above average and the forest scenes have excellent trees. Neither the monsters nor yourself are animated, but everything does move smoothly.

All of the screens are easy to get through but the cumulative effects of battling with the monsters make it difficult to get beyond screen eight.

Sorcery will never become a cult game like Atic Atac. However, it will no doubt be taken out of the cassette box a fair few times.