The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction, and a re-imagining of the critically acclaimed mod of the same name. Combat is an option, but violence will only get you so far…
The Forgotten City is an adventure developed by Modern Storyteller, released 28 July 2021 on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. It currently starts at $2.49 at IndieGala. The main story takes about 9.2 hrs to finish.
What The Forgotten City is
The Forgotten City is an adventure game developed by Modern Storyteller and released in 2021. It was published by Dear Villagers. It is available on PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on Unreal Engine 4.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. Trapped in a secret underground city during the Roman Empire, twenty-six lost souls cling to life. In this precarious utopia, if one person breaks the mysterious Golden Rule, everyone dies. As a time-traveller drawn two thousand years into the past, you’ll relive their final moments in an endless loop, exploring and interrogating, and changing the course of the day with each secret you uncover. Only by 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…
How it plays
It is played from a first person perspective. Its themes are drama, fantasy, historical and mystery. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. There are 40 achievements to unlock.
How it was received
The Forgotten City holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,527 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2021 averaged 74, so it scored 16 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 85, across 162 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 9.2 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 12.9 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path. At its current cheapest price of $2.49, that works out to about $0.27 per hour of the main story, or $0.19 per hour if you finish everything.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for 3GHz (4 Core) CPU, 8 GB RAM and NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265. An 8GB memory requirement is modest by current standards; most machines sold in the last five years clear it. Install size is roughly 26GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it costs, and where
The cheapest verified price right now is $2.49 at IndieGala, 90% below its usual price. Across the 4 stores we track, the same game ranges up to $4.99 — a spread of $2.50 for an identical product.
What it launched against
The Forgotten City launched on 28 July 2021, within three weeks of Death's Door, Black Book, Road 96 and Final Fantasy. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 1 year into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Death's Door, Black Book, Road 96, Final Fantasy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for The Forgotten City yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
Official trailer
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