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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.
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About The Forgotten City
About this game
Developed Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers.
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game centred around exploration, deduction, and smart choices. With your power to rewind time, you'll go back 2000 years and try to unravel the mystery of who destroyed the ancient underground city.
Be Whoever You Want
Choose your character's gender, origin, and backstory before heading into the mysteries of the ancient Roman City. Aside from your narrative, you'll be able to control how you react before intense moral dilemmas that will have life-and-death consequences. Be careful before you act! After all, the fate of the entire city is in your hands.
Questions Not Fists
Throughout your playthrough, you'll interrogate many colourful characters, each with their own personality and life. Whilst combat and violence is an options, they will only get you so far; use your head, and work smart, not hard.
Not the Only Way
Thankfully, fists and questions aren't the only way you can go about your business in The Forgotten City: reason, charm, bribe, and intimidate your way through the playthrough! And that's if you can't just learn to exploit the time loop.
Think, Think
Aside from getting to know the cast of characters, finding the multiple endings, and walking around the beautiful open world, you'll also spend a ton of time solving puzzles and challenges that will keep your mind engaged!
Open-World
Roam around freely through the open-world setting of ancient Rome, with historically-authentic art, architecture, costumes, and customs! It's easy to get immersed in The Forgotten City.
Game Details
- Platform:
- steam
- Release Date:
- July 28, 2021
- Developer:
- Modern Storyteller
- Publishers:
- Dear Villagers
Plug In Digital
- Rating:
- Supported Languages:
- English
- Link:
- Themes:
- Mystery
Historical
Time Travel
Investigation
Philosophical
Atmospheric
Rome
Fantasy
Silent Protagonist
Beautiful
Great Soundtrack
- Play Styles:
- Multiple Endings
First-Person
Choices Matter
- Features:
- Captions available
Partial Controller Support
Singleplayer
Product Requirements
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit or newer
- Processor: 4 Core 3GHz or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 | AMD Radeon R7 260X or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 26 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 8 Core 3.2 GHz or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | AMD Radeon RX 580
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 26 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Critic Reviews
85
Based on 34 Critics
GameSpot
90 / 100"The Forgotten City rewards your inquisitive mind with equally satisfying rewards at every turn, making its time-travelling tale one not to miss out on."
IGN
90 / 100"The Forgotten City does a fabulous job exploring interesting moral quandaries through excellently written dialogue and characters."
PC Gamer
84 / 100"An intriguing mystery adventure with outstanding writing and performances."
Reviews provided by MetaCritic
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Easy
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Relax & enjoy! 60% of players consider this game to be Easy
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Completionist! 56.25% of players have Conquered It
The Forgotten City User Reviews
All our customer reviews are open and honest. We publish all reviews that are relevant and follow our guidelines.
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Asura
Verified purchase
Really great game. Though, it is not a long game (with certain character it can be finished very very fast - and with other characters it can also be finished fast - but it is not a good ending) and its replay value is a little bit diminished, the story is great. It is enjoyable to figure out all the plots while you can achieve that with multiple ways.
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Fantastic game
Verified purchase
When I started playing, i did feel there was some form of “combat” missing, but the story was so engrossing I kept playing regardless. But then, I ended up getting that too. Its a great game all the way through, and there’s multiple endings.
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Fanatical User
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I was so invested into the story and the characters, that I even got emotional over different endings of the game, as well as situations. I played through various endings and got all the achievements, yet I feel saddened to know I finished the game. I would have loved to play even more of it. Looking forward to other games from them!
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Lemon
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If one commits a crime, the entire village will turn into gold.
I really liked the setting and bought it, but I was disappointed.
It includes a twist, but it's not surprising.
And I was lost for a long time because I didn't know exactly where to go.
It was so boring to watch the ending in the middle.
I don't know if the story is that organized. I don't think it's because I haven't played these games a lot,
I personally want to recommend it.
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YetAnotherReviewer
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Fun mystery adventure game. I liked the time-loop aspect and the overall narrative, but I did not care for the out-of-place combat.
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Metallah
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A very good story. You'll have to speak with the inhabitants of the city to solve the mistery. It is better not to know anything. The graphics and the art are beatiful, the script is perfect. Enjoy it!
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conninator
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Like Skyrim but Rome and with a good story
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g
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havent played all the way through it yet but the dialogue already isnt impressing me in the beginning, hopefully itll get better as it goes on because the mystery does seem to be fairly interesting
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Frequently Asked Questions
Available DLCs for The Forgotten City include Collector’s DLC and Digital Soundtrack
Relax and Enjoy! 62% of GameFAQs users said The Forgotten City is Simple or Easy. 36% of GameFAQs users said the difficulty is Just Right.
According to USK, The Forgotten City is suitable for players aged 16 and above.
Yes, The Forgotten City is Steam Deck Verified. Valve’s testing indicates that The Forgotten City is Verified on Steam Deck. This game is fully functional on Steam Deck, and works great with the built-in controls and display.
- All functionality is accessible when using the default controller configuration
- This game shows Steam Deck controller icons
- In-game interface text is legible on Steam Deck
- This game's default graphics configuration performs well on Steam Deck
Minimum:
- OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit or newer
- Processor: 4 Core 3GHz or better
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 | AMD Radeon R7 260X or better
- DirectX: Version 10
- Storage: 26 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
Recommended:
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: 8 Core 3.2 GHz or better
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 | AMD Radeon RX 580
- DirectX: Version 11
- Storage: 26 GB available space
- Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
The average playtime for GameFAQs users is 10 hours.
Yes, The Forgotten City has broad critical consensus. 89% of critics on Metacritic recommend The Forgotten City. The Metascore is 85 out of 100.
77% of Fanatical users recommend The Forgotten City. The average review score is 4.5/5
Yes, 77% of Fanatical users and 89% of critics on Metacritic recommend The Forgotten City.
The Forgotten City was released on July 28, 2021
The Forgotten City is published by Dear Villagers and Plug In Digital
The Forgotten City was developed by Modern Storyteller
Fanatical users tagged The Forgotten City as Story Rich, Adventure, Walking Simulator, and Exploration
Fanatical users tagged The Forgotten City as Mystery, Historical, Time Travel, and Investigation
Yes, Fanatical users tagged The Forgotten City as Story Rich
Yes, Fanatical users tagged The Forgotten City as Adventure
Yes, Fanatical users tagged The Forgotten City as Walking Simulator
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