The Forgotten City

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  • Summary: The Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction. 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 anThe Forgotten City is a mystery adventure game of exploration and deduction. 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.
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Critic Reviews

Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 29 out of 33
  2. Mixed: 4 out of 33
  3. Negative: 0 out of 33
  1. Adventure Gamers
    Aug 16, 2021
    100
    Uniformly excellent writing, acting, and audio-visual presentation of an ancient Roman city and its imminently doomed citizens make The Forgotten City a mystery well worth solving—and the clever time-looping mechanics make your investigation a lot of fun.
  2. WellPlayed
    Jul 27, 2021
    100
    The Forgotten City is a beauty to behold no matter the eye, a deeply contemplative story matched with wonderful puzzles based in classical antiquity.
  3. Game Informer
    Aug 1, 2021
    90
    Regardless of the visual shortcomings, The Forgotten City stands tall as a unique game that pulls you in with its world and words. I got a huge kick using time travel as a detective tool and found many of the characters to be delightful to chat with (even if they hold many dark secrets). If you are in the market for a different type of game that pushes you to stitch together a story in different ways than you would expect, don’t sleep on this inventive experience. It’s one that you won’t soon forget.
  4. Stevivor
    Jul 27, 2021
    80
    The Forgotten City expands upon the original concept of a small mod and has been developed into a rich and well-balanced experience. While its gameplay is simple, its narrative and atmosphere shine through. A great game from start to end, The Forgotten City is a perfect gem for gamers who love a mystery. More than that though, it’s a fantastic game that explores the complexity of morality and challenges players to do the same long after its completion.
  5. Games.cz
    Nov 30, 2021
    80
    A brilliant game that’s all about conversations. You get stuck in a time loop which sounds potentially frustrating but actually isn’t because you don’t have to repeat yourself in any way. It’s just a shame that the game’s a bit ugly and the puzzles a bit trivial.
  6. AusGamers
    Aug 10, 2021
    80
    The characters are not only memorable, but the questions they and the overall story raise go beyond plot twists for the sake of plot twists. There’s care and an attention to detail worth celebrating here. Roman culture isn’t simply a cool historical backdrop, customs, behaviours, what we now know of the times can be found and felt in every corner of the world. And in many of the conversations you’ll have.
  7. Hardcore Gamer
    Jul 27, 2021
    70
    For all its occasional grievances — that don’t add up to too much — it’s the intriguing mystery as much the appeal of its investigative leads across many a conversation where the strengths of The Forgotten City end up standing out most of all.

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  1. Positive: 38 out of 48
  2. Mixed: 7 out of 48
  3. Negative: 3 out of 48
  1. webhivbbr4vio3b
    Aug 1, 2021
    10
    I am genuinely so impressed. With a team of only 3 developers, they have managed to accomplish so much:

    Fantastic story- time concepts,    I am genuinely so impressed. With a team of only 3 developers, they have managed to accomplish so much:

    Fantastic story- time concepts, history, philosophy, and an open-worldish type adventure ticked all my boxes. The content of the quests was also very unique; no fetch x quests, each was memorable

    Acting- both the animations and voice overs were very well done; it was super engaging. Each character felt real

    Stability- with time loops involved and the quests that are included, theres a lot of potential for bugs. Surprisingly, I did not run into any (except a money exploit that I used to my benefit)

    The only downside is that I felt it was fairly short, but that might be because I loved it I wanted to explore as much as I could ASAP.    … Expand
  2. BoeliB
    Jul 6, 2022
    10
    good game. good game. good game. good game. good game. good game. good game. good game.
  4. AleM123
    Aug 25, 2021
    10
    Amazing game! Hard to find these days games like that. Impressive! Started to play and couldn't stop for hours and hours
  5. buficek
    Nov 27, 2021
    9
    This game has an amazing story full of twists and turns, original puzzles and beautiful graphics. I would give it 10/10 because it's anThis game has an amazing story full of twists and turns, original puzzles and beautiful graphics. I would give it 10/10 because it's an experience you won't forget. But you also won't forget the problems that the game has and they annoyed me all the time. Lags and objects appearing in front of you or the fact that the game sometimes just stops and starts loading wouldn't bother me that much. What bothered me though was the over the top political correctness. It was very annoying especially because story is everything in this game. Some of the characters were in the game to impose the author's political views to the player. I want to enjoy an otherwise interesting story, not be lectured on political issues.

    The Forgotten City is an amazing game that is only stopped from perfection by its not-so-good technical state and completely inappropriate political propaganda. I look forward to more games from these developers and hope they avoid the mentioned problems in their next projects.    … Expand
  6. MetoTheBabo
    Jul 6, 2022
    9
    This game is pretty good if you like history or fantasy. A pretty good adventure , graphics are decent , story is really great. But just oneThis game is pretty good if you like history or fantasy. A pretty good adventure , graphics are decent , story is really great. But just one thing I don't like about this game is that the face expressions of the chacaracters . But its not a really big problem.… Expand
  7. Mene0
    May 23, 2022
    8
    A great game, with an exciting story told in a way that could only be told in a video game. The characters and situations are well written andA great game, with an exciting story told in a way that could only be told in a video game. The characters and situations are well written and the juxtaposition of ancient rome and modern times is entertaining. The amount of historical research that went into the making of this game is staggering, considering the short dev team.… Expand
  8. sex69
    Oct 8, 2021
    0
    There are too few supported languages. So it's not fun. It's annoying. Please support a lot of languages.

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