The Forgotten Ones

The Forgotten Ones

Skip · Shooter · 2014

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.

PriceS
Free to play
Reviews▼
60% of 1,657
Genre rank
Top 86% Shooter

Holding it back: Reviews, Reach

Time and effort

Main story
2.3h
To 100%
5.6h 2.4x the story
Finish
10% reach the ending
Achievements
12

Players and genre

Online
0 now
Better reviewed
13% of its genre
Price and player charts

The drop-off

18% start to 10% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

Steam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements

The value story

The value story

It is less well reviewed than 87 percent of its genre. Cry of Fear (free, scores 77) outscores it, and so does Zombie Panic! Source (free, scores 66). Both sit among its closest neighbours.

More about The Forgotten Ones

Steam's global achievement data puts about 10 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 2.3-hour game, that is a lot of evenings the rest never spend.

2.3 hours to finish it, 6 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 2.4 times the campaign.

Buy now or wait

What drives the score

Grades: S best, D weakest

S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work

Raising the score
Cost per hourFree
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Engagement10% finish
How far players get (achievements). It can only add points
Holding it back
Reviews
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones. Scored as 61% after the small-sample adjustment
Reach350K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). A free game has no price to weigh, so this is its value read
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
RefundsFree
A free game cannot be refunded, so the label never applies
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

Losing his parents during the holocaust to a mad man of a doctor. You're to play as Grobuskna Vladinov, 20 years after the incident that changed his life dramatically. Grobuskna receives an unknown phone call that'll start a journey that'll twist your mind...
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 5 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
The Forgotten Ones scores 8/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/314280/the-forgotten-ones
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Details

DeveloperBernt Andreas Eide
PublisherBernt Andreas Eide
GenreShooter
Released2014
Players350Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12