
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.














About The Forgotten City
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About the Game

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.
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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
| Language | Interface | Full audio | Subtitles |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Supported | Supported | Supported |
| German | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
| French | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
| Spanish (Spain) | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
| Simplified Chinese | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
| Russian | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
| Japanese | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
| Korean | Supported | Not supported | Supported |
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 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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