Name: The Forgotten City

Publishers: Dear Villagers, Modern Storyteller

Developers: Modern Storyteller

Genres: Action, Adventure, RPG, Indie

Platforms: PC, PlayStation 5, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, Xbox Series S/X, Xbox One

Released: 2021-07-28

The Forgotten City

OS: Windows 7 SP1 64-bit or newer
Processor: AMD FX-6300 | Intel i5-2500 @ 2.7GHz or better
Memory: 4 GB RAM
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 | AMD Radeon HD 6950 or better
DirectX: Version 10
Storage: 10 GB available space
Sound Card: DirectX Compatible

The Forgotten City is a game about time travel, a mysterious murder, and avoiding fate. It is based on an award-winning Skyrim mode of the same name. The game retains most of the original mod's lore, but reimagines the characters and the setting and features a completely new voice acting and a music score. The game is powered by Unreal Engine.

Plot

The game is set in a mythological ancient Roman city somewhere deep underground. A group of 26 archeologists explored the city until one of them accidentally broke a taboo and activated an ancient curse. Now they are trapped in a time loop and cursed to die and relive their deaths forever. That is, unless one of them changes what happened to the city and its inhabitants long ago, thus preventing the curse. In the ruins, there's a portal, which leads to the past and allows the characters to relive and alter the previous events in the vein of The Groundhog Day movie. The Forgotten City features branching non-linear plots with difficult moral dilemmas and plot twists. There are multiple endings that depend on the player's actions.

Gameplay

The player controls a protagonist that is fully customizable, up to his or her sex and physical appearance, in a 3D ancient city. Compared to the original mod, the game introduces new combat mechanics and wall climbing. However, most of the gameplay is based around characters' interactions and timeline manipulations.