Rather, The Forgotten City leverages its time-travel theme in the form of an actual in-game mechanic. Indeed, different endings might take some trial-and-error, but not in the traditional sense of getting a fail state and loading. The Forgotten City will have you explore the backgrounds of its inhabitants and appraise their characters, taking gambles upon choices the results of which you can only make educated guesses on. Lined with motifs of responsibility and prejudice and slightly darker than Skyrim's usual mannerism, the narrative is not without its leaps, but its execution and scope stand out among what we've come to expect from quest mods in general. The Forgotten City shows you the consequences of a mysterious disaster and sends you into the bowels of an underground Dwemer City, whose inhabitants live under the auspices of an uncertain, draconian law, tasking you with figuring out what happened and how to stop it.
Once you arrive at the ruins, you end up leaping down the proverbial rabbit hole into a land of time-travel fiction, moral judgements, and thinly-veiled themes of social engineering and captive self-government right out of the Vaul-Tec playbook. And so a courier reaches you with a desperate letter, also delivering a first bit of unexpected voiceover, and you get your plot hook. City guards may have difficulty discerning whether you're a glorious hero or have fur coming out of your ears, but to Imperial deserter Cassia you're just the right person to fetch her brother from some dubious Dwarven ruins in The Reach. The plot setup is quite straight-forward. I've spent a few hours over the past weekend delving into what amounted to a multiple-solution story-driven puzzle that made running around to piece info together and open up progression paths altogether engaging.
He pitches us on what sounds more like a story-driven adventure game than Skyrim's standard Action-RPG experience, and I'm happy to say that he delivers. The Modern Storyteller and main architect of The Forgotten City, summarises his creation. It has a dark, non-linear story in which you'll explore the city in multiple timelines, interrogate suspects, navigate challenging moral dilemmas, and fight new enemies." "The Forgotten City offers a unique gameplay experience: a murder mystery investigation set in an ancient underground city.
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