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!
The overall rating of the game is too high. First off, there is a strangely high amount of lag when moving the mouse that didn't go away even when I tried adjusted the settings.
The story is alright, but navigating can be difficult in ther world, especially when looking for specific people or places to go back to.
The graphics aren't great by today's standards but they aren't the worst. However, the loading times were awful. Not sure if it is just me or if it is like that in general. Luckiliy there aren't too many areas that have loading zones so its usually not a big deal/
It’s more of an interactive movie than a proper game.
The story—despite some plot holes—and the dialogue are quite engaging, but the gameplay is minimal at best.
It took me 6 hours to complete it 100% and see all the possible endings.
Worth picking up at a deep discount (75% off) to play through once.
Even though this game started out as a Skyrim mod it's more an adventure-type game than an RPG. After a slow start it quickly drew me in when I started with the quests.
Strong points:
- Characters and dialogue are well-written. All characters have their own background and motivation.
- Quests are short and sweet. I don't recall a single quest that felt like it was dragging its feet.
- No menial repetition of already completed tasks after going back in time (the tasks can be offloaded to an NPC).
- No backtracking.
- Small, but very detailed location.
- Most (if not all) quests can be completed in different ways.
- Persistent inventory allows for creative use of the time loop mechanic.
- Interesting historical/archeological tidbits every now and then.
Weak points:
- Graphics aren't bad, but still sub-par for a 2021 game.
- Some of the voice-acting felt like they were over-acting their character.
- Combat is meh (but then, combat isn't the focus in the first place).
- Character creator is very basic, though it could be argued that aside from profession bonuses the character doesn't matter much in the game anyway.
- No map (but the location is small enough to not require one).
It's amazing to see a game get so many things right in the story/character department as well as on the mechanical level, when so many games these days seem intent to go in the opposite direction (boring characters, bad writing, political agendas instead of intersting plot lines, repetetive gameplay to keep players "engaged").
I strongly recommend this game to anyone with at least some level of interest in adventure games.
Played for 8 hours straight and completed all endings. It's a good little game. If you like stoicism, you'll enjoy the quotes used and if you enjoy religion or ancient history, likewise so. It's simple to get going and there were a few really hilarious moments that I won't spoil, but which are related to time travelling and modern culture. It's not a big game at all and that is maybe the biggest drawback. Otherwise I would recommend it to casual gamers or those who enjoy dialogue. There's only a little action, but lots of investigation and the size of the game makes it manageable to deal with, since you have to talk to a good few characters in order to get anywhere. I wouldn't say it's an "open-world" like the description says, because it's more a little tiny sandbox, but a good one.
Got the best ending within 7.5 hrs on my first try. Awesome little experience.
My only real gripes would be technical: really dopey and funny enemy animations (which completely ruined any semblance of intimidation they could have provided), overall funnily bad facial animations, and random performance issues (specially while using the flashlight)
I paid 8 bucks for it so def got my money's worth, i'd say it's worth a good $20! Get this game if you like a good story, good graphics, engaging dialogue, and decision making.
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