The Forgotten City
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Developers | |
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Modern Storyteller | |
Publishers | |
Dear Villagers | |
Engines | |
Unreal Engine 4 | |
Release dates | |
Windows | July 28, 2021 |
Reception | |
Metacritic | 85 |
OpenCritic | 83 |
Taxonomy | |
Modes | Singleplayer |
Pacing | Real-time |
Perspectives | First-person |
Controls | Direct control |
Genres | Adventure |
Art styles | Realistic |
Themes | Classical, Detective/mystery |
The Forgotten City is a first-person single-player detective adventure game featuring predominantly dialogue-based gameplay. It is developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers. The Forgotten City is the first game by Modern Storyteller and is a spiritual successor of a mod of the same name for The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.[1] The Forgotten City uses Unreal Engine 4.
The Forgotten City was released on Epic Games Store, GOG.com, and Steam on July 28, 2021. The launch was successful and was met with generally positive reception, however, the game contained several technical issues set to be addressed in future updates.[2][3][4]
General information
Availability
Source | DRM | Notes | Keys | OS |
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Epic Games Store | Digital Collector's Edition also available. | |||
Digital Collector's Edition also available. | ||||
GOG.com | Digital Collector's Edition also available. | |||
Humble Store | Digital Collector's Edition also available. | |||
Steam | Digital Collector's Edition also available. |
Monetization
DLC and expansion packs
Name | Notes | |
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Soundtrack | ||
Collector's DLC |
Game data
Configuration file(s) location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\ModernStoryteller01\Saved\Config\WindowsNoEditor\ |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/874260/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game data location
System | Location |
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Windows | %LOCALAPPDATA%\ModernStoryteller01\Saved\SaveGames |
Steam Play (Linux) | <SteamLibrary-folder>/steamapps/compatdata/874260/pfx/[Note 1] |
Save game cloud syncing
System | Native | Notes |
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Epic Games Launcher | ||
GOG Galaxy | ||
Steam Cloud |
Video
Graphics feature | State | Notes | |
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Widescreen resolution | |||
Multi-monitor | |||
Ultra-widescreen | Vert- by default. See Ultra-widescreen for Hor+. | ||
4K Ultra HD | |||
Field of view (FOV) | 70-110°. Default is 90°. | ||
Windowed | |||
Borderless fullscreen windowed | |||
Anisotropic filtering (AF) | Tied to the "Textures" option. | ||
Anti-aliasing (AA) | "Epic" and "High" use TAA, "Medium" uses FXAA, and "Low" turns anti-aliasing off. | ||
Vertical sync (Vsync) | |||
60 FPS and 120+ FPS | |||
High dynamic range display (HDR) | See High dynamic range display (HDR). |
- The game engine may allow for manual configuration of the game via its variables. See the Unreal Engine 4 page for more details.
Ultra-widescreen
Change the way FOV is calculated[5] |
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[/Script/Engine.LocalPlayer] AspectRatioAxisConstraint=AspectRatio_MaintainYFOV |
High dynamic range display (HDR)
Modify Engine.ini[6] |
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[SystemSettings] r.AllowHDR=1 r.HDR.EnableHDROutput=1 r.HDR.Display.OutputDevice=5 r.HDR.Display.ColorGamut=0 r.HDR.UI.CompositeMode=1 r.HDR.UI.Level=0.3
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Input
Keyboard and mouse | State | Notes |
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Remapping | ||
Mouse acceleration | ||
Mouse sensitivity | Separate Horizontal and Vertical sensitivity control. | |
Mouse input in menus | ||
Mouse Y-axis inversion | ||
Controller | ||
Controller support | ||
Full controller support | ||
Controller remapping | ||
Controller sensitivity | Separate Horizontal and Vertical sensitivity control. | |
Controller Y-axis inversion |
Controller types |
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XInput-compatible controllers |
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PlayStation controllers | See the glossary page for potential workarounds. |
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Generic/other controllers |
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Additional information | ||
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Controller hotplugging | ||
Haptic feedback | ||
Digital movement supported | ||
Simultaneous controller+KB/M |
Audio
Audio feature | State | Notes |
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Separate volume controls | Separate Master Volume, Effects, Ambience, Voice, UI, and Music sliders. | |
Surround sound | Up to 7.1. | |
Subtitles | Options for subtitle size ("Small", "Normal", "Large", "Very Large") and subtitle background. | |
Closed captions | ||
Mute on focus lost |
Localizations
Language | UI | Audio | Sub | Notes |
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English | ||||
Simplified Chinese | ||||
French | ||||
German | ||||
Russian | ||||
Spanish |
Issues unresolved
Dialogue audio may be changed
- Dialogue audio may become muted or lowered despite the set audio volume.[7]
Quests may not be completable
- The "Secret Admirer" quest may not be marked as completed in the quest log.[8]
Other information
API
Technical specs | Supported | Notes |
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Direct3D | 11 |
Executable | 32-bit | 64-bit | Notes |
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Windows |
Middleware
Middleware | Notes | |
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Physics | PhysX | |
Audio | XAudio |
System requirements
Windows | ||
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Minimum | Recommended | |
Operating system (OS) | 7 SP1 | 10 |
Processor (CPU) | Intel Core i5-2500 2.7 GHz AMD FX-6300 |
Intel Core i5-4570 3.2 GHz AMD FX-8350 |
System memory (RAM) | 4 GB | 8 GB |
Hard disk drive (HDD) | 10 GB | 15 GB |
Video card (GPU) | Nvidia GeForce GTX 570 AMD Radeon HD 6950 DirectX 10 compatible | Nvidia GeForce GTX 960 AMD Radeon R9 380 DirectX 11 compatible |
Sound (audio device) | DirectX compatible |
- A 64-bit operating system is required.
Notes
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Notes regarding Steam Play (Linux) data:
- File/folder structure within this directory reflects the path(s) listed for Windows and/or Steam game data.
- Games with Steam Cloud support may also store data in
~/.steam/steam/userdata/<user-id>/874260/
. - Use Wine's registry editor to access any Windows registry paths.
- The app ID (874260) may differ in some cases.
- Treat backslashes as forward slashes.
- See the glossary page for details on Windows data paths.
References
- ↑ The Forgotten City, Once An Award-Winning Skyrim Mod, Is Out As A Standalone Game Today - last accessed on 2021-08-01
- ↑ Metacritic - The Forgotten City - last accessed on 2021-07-31
- ↑ Steam Community - HOW TO REPORT BUGS + KNOWN BUGS & FIXES - last accessed on 2021-07-31
- ↑ Steam Community - Secret Admirer isn't clearing once completed - last accessed on 2021-07-31
- ↑ Verified by User:Aaronth07 on 2021-07-30
- ↑ Verified by User:Aaronth07 on 2021-07-29
- ↑ Please Help The Forgotten City - last accessed on 2021-07-29
- ↑ Secret Admirer isn't clearing once completed - last accessed on 2021-07-29