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The Forgotten City
Jul 28, 2021·96% positive·
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The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
Best games like The Forgotten City
The best games like The Forgotten City are Expeditions: Rome, Vambrace: Cold Soul, THE LONGING, Omensight: Definitive Edition, and Timespinner. GAMESLIKE ranks these alternatives using shared gameplay metadata, Steam review sentiment, and similarity signals. Evidence includes 96% positive across 10k Steam reviews, Steam genre and tag overlap across RPG, Indie, Adventure, platform support for Windows, and $24.99 pricing signal.
- Expeditions: Rome - Expeditions: Rome is closely similar to The Forgotten City because both are RPG games, and share gameplay elements like Choices Matter, Story Rich, RPG, Atmospheric, Rome.
- Vambrace: Cold Soul - Vambrace: Cold Soul is loosely similar to The Forgotten City because both are RPG and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Exploration, Story Rich.
- THE LONGING - THE LONGING is loosely similar to The Forgotten City because both are RPG and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Mystery, Exploration.
- Omensight: Definitive Edition - Omensight: Definitive Edition is loosely similar to The Forgotten City because both are RPG and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Time Travel, Mystery.
- Timespinner - Timespinner is loosely similar to The Forgotten City because both are RPG and Indie and Adventure games, and share gameplay elements like Adventure, Time Travel, Exploration.
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Travel 2,000 years into the past and relive the final days of a cursed Roman city, where if one person sins, everyone dies. Combat is an option, but violence will only get you so far. Only by questioning an intertwined community of colourful 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.
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Explore an open-world ancient Roman city with historically authentic art, architecture, costumes and customs
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Investigate a gripping, non-linear mystery with multiple endings
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Become entwined in the lives of richly detailed, deeply interactive characters
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Grapple with moral dilemmas which have life-and-death consequences
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Play as whoever you want, by choosing your character’s gender, origin and backstory
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Solve problems with reason, charm, bribery, intimidation, violence, or by cleverly exploiting the time-loop
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