The Forgotten City

Platforms

• PC

  Jul 28, 2021

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  8.6

  playscore

  8.3

  22 Critics

  9.6

  9.32K Players
• PlayStation 5

  Jul 28, 2021

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  8.5

  playscore

  8.5

  14 Critics

  9.2

  1.72K Players
• Xbox Series X|S

  Jul 28, 2021

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  8.6

  playscore

  8.5

  12 Critics

  9.3

  2.19K Players
• PlayStation 4

  Jul 28, 2021

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  NA

  playscore

  9.0

  5 Critics

  NA

  0 Players
• Xbox One

  Jul 28, 2021

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  8.7

  playscore

  8.8

  8 Critics

  9.4

  2.00K Players
• Nintendo Switch

  Sep 23, 2021

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  NA

  playscore

  NA

  0 Critics

  NA

  0 Players

49 critic reviews · 3 community reviews across all platforms

Critic Reviews

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  RPGFan

  9.0

  It’s among the most thought-provoking mystery games I’ve ever played, and my only serious gripe is that Modern Storyteller hasn’t released DLC that would allow me to continue my adventure. The Forgotten City offers an unforgettable journey into an ancient town filled with a charming cast, a rich, sprawling narrative, and a world-class soundtrack. This is one city that I recommend everybody visit.

  Reviewed on Series X|S

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  Pure Xbox

  8.0

  All in all, The Forgotten City has surprised us with how engaging it is. The time loop mechanic is used to great effect and works much more than a simple gimmick, and the standout is the writing, which keeps you invested line after line. It's not a home run, with some overall clunkiness to the game and certain segments that could easily have been stripped out, but it's definitely a 10-12 hour adventure worth taking, with many paths and possibilities to uncover.

  Reviewed on Series X|S, XB1

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  Gaming Trend

  9.0

  The Forgotten City is an incredible game with meticulously crafted puzzles and an engrossing time loop story. While it has some quirks, this cloud version is a fantastic way to play the game thanks to the Switch’s portability.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  GameSpace.com

  8.0

  The Forgotten City is praised for its excellent storyline with multiple endings that can bring tears to tears. Maud even won an Australian Writers Guild Award and won the award for Excellence in Narrative at the 2021 Australian Game Developers Awards. In addition to this, 18 voice actors were involved in the work, and the original soundtrack was written by an entire orchestra.

  Reviewed on PC

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  NintendoLife

  9.0

  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.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  Nintendo World Report

  9.0

  Its narrative driven focus gives it time to breathe and even during combat segments I never felt like I was playing anything less than a full game that was looking exceptionally pretty on my Switch’s screen. I have no problem recommending the Cloud-version of The Forgotten City, but as with any streaming version your mileage may vary.

  Reviewed on Switch

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  GameSpot

  9.0

  The Forgotten City rewards your inquisitive mind with equally satisfying rewards at every turn, making its time-travelling tale one not to miss out on.

  Reviewed on PC, PS5, Series X|S, PS4, XB1, Switch

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  Adventure Gamers

  10

  Uniformly excellent writing, acting, and audio-visual presentation of an ancient Roman city and its imminently doomed citizens make The Forgotten City a mystery well worth solving—and the clever time-looping mechanics make your investigation a lot of fun.

  Reviewed on PC, PS5, Series X|S, PS4, XB1, Switch

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  Softpedia

  8.0

  The Forgotten City would have been a good game, if the developers would have remained in the lane of adventure games. The action scenes are more of a miss, since the whole game was built on the idea of observing and solving puzzles.

  Reviewed on PS5

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  Push Square

  7.0

  For fans of storytelling, The Forgotten City is a solid recommendation. Freed from the shackles of Skyrim, the full game tells a captivating story elevated by clever and humorous writing. With the interesting time loop mechanic creating further situations full of comedy and intrigue, settling down across a few evenings with The Forgotten City will delight. We just wish the combat was either improved or not there at all, and the technical setbacks weren't quite so rampant.

  Reviewed on PS5

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