The Forgotten City 2021

About

The Forgotten City came out on July 28, 2021 for PC, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5 and Xbox One, then for Mac on February 23, 2023. On Steam, 96% of 11,278 player reviews are positive (Overwhelmingly Positive). 18 people are playing it on Steam right now, with a peak of 74 in the last 30 days. It is Verified on Steam Deck. The main story takes about 7 hours, doing everything about 13 hours. It won the Pégase Award for best international game.

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. Only by questioning an intertwined community of colorful 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.

Story

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.