The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction, and a re-imagining of the critically acclaimed mod that won a national Writers’ Guild award and racked up over 3 million downloads.
Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city,...
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction, and a re-imagining of the critically acclaimed mod that won a national Writers’ Guild award and racked up over 3 million downloads.
Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. Combat is an option, but violence will only get you so far. Only by questioning an intertwined community of colourful characters, cleverly exploiting the time loop, and making difficult moral choices can you hope to solve this epic mystery. Here, your decisions matter. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Explore an open-world ancient Roman city with historically authentic art, architecture, costumes and customs
Investigate a gripping, non-linear mystery with multiple endings
Become entwined in the lives of richly detailed, deeply interactive characters
Grapple with moral dilemmas which have life-and-death consequences
Play as whoever you want, by choosing your character’s gender, origin and backstory
Solve problems with reason, charm, bribery, intimidation, violence, or by cleverly exploiting the time-loop
Enjoyed the mod?
If you liked the mod, you’re going to love the stand-alone game. We've taken the best elements of the mod, re-written the script, which is now more than twice the length of the original at 80,000+ words, and added plenty of exciting new twists, endings, and surprises. Walk the streets of a brand new city. Get to know re-imagined characters. Solve challenging new puzzles with new gameplay mechanics, and enjoy an all-new orchestral score and professional voice acting. This is the story we always wanted to tell, for you to enjoy all over again - and again.
The Forgotten City may have evolved from a mod for an action RPG, but like the mod, this game is in a totally different genre. It’s a mystery adventure game, developed by a core team of three people. If you don’t go into this expecting a Triple-A action RPG, you’ll have a much better time!
I REFUSE TO BUY THIS GAME UNTIL YOU FIX THE SHADER COMPILATION STUTTER AND LOADING STUTTER. every unshit engine game has it, chernobylite, trek to yomi, ALL. all you need to do is let it compile like forza horizon, or horizon zero dawn in the main menu before starting the campaign. THATS. ALL. if there are people who refuse and want stutters and real time shader compilation because they are too impatient to wait a few minutes. GO TO HELL YOU MONKEY.
This is a mystery game with a white supremacist conspiracy theory as the answer. (Just because white people weren't there doesn't mean it was aliens!)
The game starts off with an interesting premise, but grows more and more uncomfortable over time. I can overlook the occasional odd animation or camera angle, but not the central mystery devolving into racist nonsense. Dry exposition dumps are treated like a reward for the player doing a good job. The attitudes toward gay people are ahistorical. The portrayal of religious groups exaggerates similarities into all religions being interchangeable with modern, corporate Christianity. Galerius is a lovely himbo who stands out among an otherwise bland cast of characters.
Overall the story seems less interested in actually exploring anthropology, history, religion, or philosophy and more in using those subjects as cudgels for edgy atheists to pwn the Christians.
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