The Forgotten City
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The Forgotten City - Launch Trailer
The Forgotten City - Official Launch Date Trailer
The Forgotten City launch trailer... Again!
Critic Reviews for The Forgotten City
An intriguing mystery adventure with outstanding writing and performances.
The Forgotten City does a fabulous job exploring interesting moral quandaries through excellently written dialogue and characters.
Ultimately, though, The Forgotten City is one of those games that will inspire other games for years to come. It’s absurd to think it was mostly developed by a three-person team, and yet the clear, unanimous focus a team this small permits is evident throughout the entire game. It is clever not just in terms of its story or themes, but in how it packages and delivers those themes through one of the most inspired and tight gameplay loops I’ve seen in a long time.
One of the better choice-driven games in recent memory that makes you feel like you have ownership over your actions and the narrative flow
The Forgotten City is a deeply satisfying puzzle adventure that will have you questioning what it means to sin.
Clearly The Forgotten City is a game that speaks to those who revel in conversation. Those RPG fans who’d prefer not to fight or lash out, but converse and take a more steady, expository approach to finding a solution. It’s no exaggeration to say that the mythos Modern Storyteller both utilize and borrow from here is both surprising and satisfying with where it ends up heading. And while the narrative’s conclusion can come off too immersion-breaking or plain ridiculous for one’s taste, the caliber of writing for the most part is no less impressive for a game of this physical scale.
The Forgotten City is a brilliant piece of narrative work that feels like a time capsule of Skyrim's jank, revitalised with a gripping story that's just long enough that it never loses momentum. It is, as always, hard to fully recommend a Cloud Version of a game that's available elsewhere in a more concrete form, but if you're accepting of the associated 'risks', this is a well-presented and brilliant time loop game and well worth a play.
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