I had heard going in that The Forgotten City was a sort of first-person adventure game concerned with morality and the dense questions of right and wrong. And probably free will and the social contract and a bunch of other stuff I am generally too thick to understand.
The Forgotten City reviewPublisher: Dear Villagers, Ubitus K.K.Developer: Modern StorytellerPlatform: Played on XboxAvailability: Out on PC and Xbox (Game Pass), PS4, PS5 and Switch
And it is about those things! But it manages to bring them alive in a way that is fascinating and generous, a way that invites everybody in. And it’s also spooky and weird and thrilling and audacious.
Oh, to begin you are lost in the woods, dragged from a river and prompted to enter a strange ruin nearby. Someone else has gone in recently, a man called Al, and maybe you could find him and make sure he’s safe?
He’s not safe, of course, and neither are you. After a tumble straight out of Alice in Wonderland you land deep underground, in an ancient city that has been chiselled from the rock. No getting back the way you came – only forward.