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The Forgotten City

The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.

Released Jul 28, 2021Overwhelmingly Positive · 95% of 11.3KPEGI 16≈ 9 h to beat
Steam Deck VerifiedAdventureIndieRPGTime TravelMysteryExploration
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
The Forgotten City
Developer: Modern Storyteller
Publisher: Dear Villagers
The Forgotten City
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About The Forgotten City

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The Forgotten City


About the Game

The Forgotten City

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

Story

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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 your hands.

Trailers

Trailer
Developer Interview
Trailer
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Game details

Developers
Modern Storyteller
Publishers
Dear Villagers
Release date
Jul 28, 2021
Genres
Adventure, Indie, RPG, Time Travel, Mystery, Exploration, Choices Matter, Investigation, Story Rich, First-Person, Multiple Endings, Walking Simulator, Atmospheric, Philosophical, Great Soundtrack, Rome, Fantasy, Remake, Open World, Silent Protagonist
Modes
Single-player
Controller
Full controller support
Steam features
40 achievements, Steam Cloud, Family Sharing
Themes
Fantasy, Historical, Drama, Mystery
Camera
First person
Engine
Unreal Engine 4

Languages

LanguageInterfaceFull audioSubtitles
EnglishSupportedSupportedSupported
GermanSupportedNot supportedSupported
FrenchSupportedNot supportedSupported
Spanish (Spain)SupportedNot supportedSupported
Simplified ChineseSupportedNot supportedSupported
RussianSupportedNot supportedSupported
JapaneseSupportedNot supportedSupported
KoreanSupportedNot supportedSupported
System requirements

Minimum

  • OS *: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit
  • Processor: 3GHz (4 Core) CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 26 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

Recommended

  • OS: Windows 10 64-bit
  • Processor: 3.2 GHz (4 Core) CPU
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1060 | AMD Radeon RX 580
  • DirectX: Version 11
  • Storage: 26 GB available space
  • Sound Card: DirectX Compatible
  • Additional Notes: Recommend installing on SSD

Ratings

Steam reviews

Overwhelmingly Positive

95% of 11.3K

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Metacritic

85

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IGDB critics

90

5 critic scores

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Age rating

PEGI 16

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Steam Deck & Linux

Steam Deck Verified

  • Everything works with the default controls
  • Shows Steam Deck button icons
  • Text is readable on the Deck screen
  • Runs well with the default graphics settings
  • External controllers don't work for the main player
  • SteamOS: Playable
  • Steam Machine: Verified

ProtonDB: Platinum · 68 reports See reports

DLC & editions

Also on Steam

  • The Forgotten City Soundtrack
  • The Forgotten City - Collector's DLC
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Release date: Jul 28, 2021

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