The Forgotten City News

Exploring the dimly-lit slums of The Forgotten City, you might stumble across one citizen’s room filled with bottles upon bottles of garum—an ancient Roman fish sauce made from fermented fish guts that was basically like today’s ketchup. Some of us might remember 2013’s great "Sriracha-pocalypse" when people feared price hikes and shortages of every hipster’s favorite chili sauce; here in this subterranean ancient Roman city, cut off from the rest of the known world, perhaps this condiment hoarder is also preparing for the worst: a life with no garum...
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With only two more days until The Forgotten City launches, we wanted to share with you a little info about the Digital Collector's Edition!



Always remember your adventure to The Forgotten City with these three real-world keepsakes:

1. A gorgeous hand-painted map of the city by Artist and Cartographer Francesca Baerald, ready to print

Specs: Color, A3

2. An intricately detailed statue of Magistrate Sentius, in classic ancient Roman style, ready to 3D print

Specs: Compatible with FDM and Resin printers. Default size:
28.9cm. Includes Printing Guide.
If you don't have a 3D printer, you can have it printed and delivered
by a third-party 3D printing service for a small fee.

3. The complete official soundtrack of The Forgotten City. Listen to Composer Michael Allen's stunning 30-track orchestral score, and experience the wonder, beauty, and joy of your journey into the past all over again.

Specs: Total length: 1 hour 17 minutes

couple of hundred years ago, the English philosopher Jeremy Bentham dreamt up an enormously unpleasant method of using architecture to stamp out anti-social behaviour. Bentham called for prison cells to be built around shielded watchtowers, or "panopticons", from which guards could monitor prisoners unobserved. He argued that the pressure of living under steady scrutiny, rather than punishments in themselves, would slowly mould each prisoner into a model citizen. Best of all, Bentham suggested, there doesn't have to actually be a guard in the panopticon for the panopticon to 'work'. After all, the suspicion of being spied on is often more daunting than the certainty...
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After over 4 years in development, The Forgotten City finally has a release date! In case you missed the news from IGN at E3, The Forgotten City will be coming to Steam on 28th July 2021!

To help celebrate this auspicious news we have a short new trailer to give you a taste of what’s to come in our much longer release trailer, coming on the 28th of July.

We hope you enjoy it and that you're just as excited as we are for you to begin your adventures in The Forgotten City!

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In The Forgotten City you travel 2,000 years into the past to unravel the events that wiped out an entire Roman city. Helping you solve the mystery is a time loop, which allows you to relive the city's final day over and over again as you investigate. The city is blighted by a curse, and if a single citizen commits a sin, everyone dies. You'll need to explore, talk to citizens, solve puzzles, and even occasionally engage in combat before you get to the bottom of what happened...
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