The Forgotten City
Worth it · RPG · 2021
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $24.99, a BANGER if it drops to $12.34.
- Length
- 6h
- Value
- $4.17/hr
- Reviews
- 96% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GTX 750 Ti 2GB | AMD Radeon R7 265, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
The Forgotten City is a narrative-driven time loop adventure in ancient Rome. Discover the ruins of an ancient underground city, travel 2000 years into the past, and unravel the mystery of who destroyed it by cleverly exploiting the power to wind back time. The fate of the city is in your hands.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
The value story
The lowest price on record is $4.99, set in August 2026. 53 discounts in the 5 years on record. They run about 60 percent off, roughly 5 weeks apart. It becomes a BANGER at $12.34, a level the record has reached 32 times.
Value puts it in the top 4 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 99 percent. Among the games that feel like it, THE LONGING ($14.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats A Perfect Day ($19.99, scores 61).
Critics scored it 85. Players sit 11 points higher at 96 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data puts 44 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 745 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 13 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written July 2021 to September 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 7 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,162 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,428 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 309 reviews written there were positive, against 96 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
It carries Valve's Deck Verified rating and runs 6 hours, about as long as a handheld game wants to be.
The drop-off
71% start to 44% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
What players say
It's been a long time since I played a game that made me feel so much. The satisfaction of unravelling multiple mysteries, uncovering secrets, orchestrating events, bending fate to your will... what a beautiful experience.
If you enjoy solving mysteries and picking up on scattered clues and putting them together this is a masterclass in that. The characters are interesting and the story was fun to figure out.
Overall, I really enjoyed this game. Bought it some time back after seeing the trailer, loved the concept. Actually sat down and played it recently. I'd rate it a solid 4.5/5, or an 8-9/10. Worth the money, and I might go back and do another playthrough. There's a good mix of mechanics and areas, with a good amount of exploration. Things I noticed that, in aggregate, bring it down half a star: (most of these will be...
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Cite this score
The Forgotten City scores 72/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/874260/the-forgotten-cityReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 18, price as of Oct 1.
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