Xbox Game Pass is a great way for people to try out plenty of excellent titles for a relatively low cost. One of the best features of the service is when new games are listed. Whileall of Microsoft’s first-party titles come to the serviceon the day they launch, some third-party games come a few months after they release, as with one of this month’s Game Pass additions:The Forgotten City.
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What is The Forgotten City?
Originating as aSkyrimmodbefore becoming a standalone experience,The Forgotten Cityis about a person from the modern day who magically enters an ancient Roman city. As they meet and get to know some of the 22 occupants of the town, the player discovers that everyone lives under a system called “the Golden Rule,” which is that “the many shall suffer for the sins of the one.” Essentially, everyone has been told that if they commit a sin, they’ll all be turned to gold and killed instantly. As a result, the town lives in fear that someone, somewhere, will commit a sin and doom everyone.
If the idea of not committing a “sin” sounds vague,The Forgotten Cityasks a lot of questionsregarding individual morality, the morality of only following rules out of fear, and the definitions of what constitutes a sin. The player eventually discovers that the ruler of the city, Magistrate Sentius, has been resetting the world every night because, no matter what, someone commits a sin and everyone turns to gold. He tasks the player with finding out who’s doing it and stopping them. In exchange, they’ll be sent back to their own time.
The player needs to get to know everyone in the city and get to the bottom of the mysterious Golden Rule while trying not to commit any sins of their own. Fans will definitely be able to seeThe Forgotten City’s origin as aSkyrimmodwhen playing it, but the gameplay is much more conversation and exploration-focused than many ofSkyrim’s quests.
The Forgotten Cityis an adventure gamepurely motivated by the player’s ability to gather information and deduce what comes next. The game keeps track of all of the player’s leads in menus, but it’s usually up to the player to decide how they want to go about solving the game’s many problems. It also features multiple endings depending on the choices made by the player, some of which can be triggered from the first moments they set foot in the Roman city. While it isn’t a particularly long game,The Forgotten Cityis worth a play for anyone who enjoys adventure games or deductive reasoning, and its place on Game Pass means that more people have the option to play it.
The Forgotten Cityis available now for PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S.
