



There are Romans and folks of a few other nationalities around, but they’re all trapped in the city and can’t leave. You then stumble into a portal and find yourself caught in an underground Roman city 2,000 years in the past. You head on in, only to find that Al is not only very old, but also very dead. A woman asks you some questions, some of which have a bearing on some of your capabilities, and requests that you head into some nearby ruins to find a man named Al. The Forgotten City starts off with your character waking up on a riverbank. The game is short, taking only five or six hours to get through (or even less if you don’t go for the true ending), but the high quality of the writing and compelling nature of the world design makes it easy to recommend to anyone who enjoys narrative adventures. As the game was remade entirely in a new engine with original assets, animations, and everything else, substantial changes also needed to be made to its story and systems. The Forgotten City is actually a full-scale remake of an identically titled Skyrim mod from a few years back. Sure, I get sick of seeing them pop up in anime, but I haven’t seen them in games very often.
