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    The Forgotten City

    Sep 09, 2021 2 minutes

    Developer Modern Storyteller

    Publisher Dear Villagers

    Format PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series

    Release Out now

    Adapted by a core team of three from a popular mod, is an absorbing reminder that videogames are naturally suited to detective fiction. It arrives at the perfect time, at once riding the recent wave of unconventional detective and , but also the coattails of the time-loop trend. As it casts your contemporary protagonist into a 2,000-year-old cursed Roman city, its hook allows developer Modern Storyteller to throw in a few timely gags. Asked if you can understand the concept of a collective being condemned by the acts of selfish individuals, you’re given the opportunity to reply that, yes, you’ve recently lived through a pandemic.

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