The Forgotten City
Modern Storyteller · Dear Villagers
A Roman city where one person's sin turns everyone to gold. The Forgotten City resets the day when that happens, and you keep the conversations. The loop is an interrogation you return to.
What kind of game is it?
A first-person investigation with dialogue trees and no combat you need to win. Twenty-odd residents each hide something; the Golden Rule collapses the day as soon as any of them acts on it. You come back knowing what they will say, which lets you open a conversation on the answer instead of the question.
Who is it for?
For players who keep returning because they finally know what they will say.
- Loop
- Exploring a map
- Sessions
- Medium sessions
- Progression
- Runs that reset
- Players
- Single-player
- Structure
- Systemic
- Tone
- Tense · Accessible
Game DNA
What playing it feels like, out of 100. Our reading, separate from Steam reviews.
- Progression35
Estimate
- Story82
Estimate
- Social18
Estimate
Key Steam facts
Steam store figures, checked 17 Sept 2026.
2021-07-28
Checked 17 Sept 2026.
Steam positive percent.
Checked 17 Sept 2026.
Checked 17 Sept 2026.
How many people play The Forgotten City?
Estimates from public Steam data, not figures from the studio. Ranges, not exact numbers.
Steam reviews × 25 to 55. For a free game: players, not sales.
Most people playing at the same moment, per SteamCharts.
Peak that month: 91.
Half of 300 recent reviewers played 6.8–12.1 h. 2% under 2 h.
Players over time
Where the players are
Languages of the last 300 Steam reviews. A proxy for regions, not a country split.
- English55%
- Simplified Chinese16%
- Russian7%
- Korean5%
- French5%
- Spanish (Spain)4%
Steam data checked 4 Oct 2026
What makes it different?
It started as a Skyrim mod and kept the part that made it famous: the loop is a dialogue tool. Where most time-loop games ask you to route through a space, this one asks you to route through people, and the multiple endings turn on which reading of the rule you accept.
Core mechanics
How it scores
The fantasy: Narrative and Exploration. Our scores out of 100, separate from Steam reviews.
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Store price checked 17 Sept 2026.
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