The Forgotten City is a beautiful game with some incredible locals. There are weapons in the game, but the gameplay is really focused on dialogue due to the golden rule. Navigating through dialogue trees provides more of an understanding of the events and citizens. Each citizen has a unique background that is intertwined in this city. The magistrate permits you to enter everyone’s living quarters, interrogate the citizens and inspect their personal documents. Your primary mission in the game is to decipher who will break the Golden rule, which is the leading cause of these characters’ bleak fate.
Through interrogating all of the city’s inhabitants, you uncover their backgrounds and find out why they are here with the hopes of escaping. You are promptly greeted by a stranger named Galerius, who informs you that the year is 817, nearly 2000 years in the past and that it’s best to follow their one “Golden Rule” as breaking it results in horrific consequences. Once you reach this portal, you have no other choice but to jump in.Įntering the portal sends you through a wormhole that deposits your body to the same ruins before everything was destroyed. Al states in his final message that no matter what he did, he was destined to live the same day over again. Reading Al’s note, you find that at the apex of the ruins is a portal to the past. Searching the ruins leads you to discover that Al has suffered the same fate as the rest of the inhabitants of the ruins. Upon falling through a trick door, the first thing you notice is that the inhabitants of this place have all turned into gold statues. You quickly stumble upon underground ruins discovered by this mysterious Al. A stranger with a boat informs you that someone named Al is lost in the ruins behind you, but if you can find him, she will ferry you back to civilization. Players can choose their character’s background, which provides unique characteristics such as greater health, speed, or even the chance to start the game with a weapon. You begin the game on the edge of the Tiber river in Italy, unaware of how or why you arrived there. The Forgotten City is a first-person action-adventure mystery heavily based on unraveling the events of the city through the dialogue of its citizens.