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Genre: Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Indie

The Forgotten City

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On July 29th, 2022, we celebrated the one-year anniversary of The Forgotten City release date. On this occasion, Modern Storyteller founder Nick Pearce shared a few words about the journey it has been and what these 12 months have been like.

Tweet thread originally published on Modern Storyteller's Twitter account. Read the original thread.

Today is the one year anniversary of the launch of The Forgotten City, so I've been reflecting on what's changed for us in the last 12 months.

Launching the game has been a life-changing experience for me personally...

Before launch I'd been working 80 hours a week, for several years, and suffering from insomnia, worrying about whether the game would do well enough that we'd get to continue making games. A year on, I'm working normal human being hours, and sleeping like a log.

But it has taken a surprisingly long time to get to this point. I think most people assume that once you launch a game, the hard work is done, and it's time to put your feet up, or start work on a new game, but I've learned that that's far from the case.

In fact, we spent about 5 months after launch busily providing tech support to users, and we received about a hundred requests for interviews, which are quite time-consuming, and in the end I had to start turning them down.

We were nominated for a bunch of awards, and even managed to win some, which meant attending award ceremonies (including DICE in Las Vegas!) and recording several acceptance speech videos.

And of course we were porting the game to additional platforms, including most recently, Steam Deck. All that has kept Alex and I quite busy until fairly recently. Now that the post-launch phase is over, and because The Forgotten City was so well-received, our little team is finally working full-time on a new game. We can't wait to tell you about it, when it's ready. But it feels completely different for me because this time it's motivated entirely by the love of making games, rather than existential terror.

Making games has become fun, again. And I hope that comes across, when you eventually get to play it.


Since then, the journey continued and The Forgotten City has been acclaimed again, especially by being included in the top 100 PC games published by PC Gamers, an annual list of the 100 PC games you should be playing.

https://www.pcgamer.com/the-top-100-pc-games-2022/#section-100-91

If you wish to experience The Forgotten City, it is now at 40% off from October 17th to October 20th.

https://store.steampowered.com/app/874260/The_Forgotten_City/

Play The Forgotten City on your Steam Deck!

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Korean subtitles are now available!

You can now play The Forgotten City with Korean subtitles!



That's in addition to Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Russian, German, Spanish, French, and of course English!

Enjoy!

The Forgotten City awarded Best International Game - Pégases 2022

Salve Friends,

Last week we told you about some good news regarding The Forgotten City being nominated for two BAFTAs.

Today's piece of news is in the same vein: we are proud to announce that The Forgotten City has been awarded "Best International Video Game" award from the French "Académie des arts et techniques du jeu vidéo" during the Pégases 2022 ceremony!

Once again, thank you for your support and spreading the word about our game!

Daily Deal, BAFTA nomination & Japanese localization

Salve friends,

We have lots of great news to share with you!

2021 has been an exciting year for The Forgotten City and 2022 is starting just as well.

First, after many requests, we are happy to announce you can now experience The Forgotten City in Japanese with the addition of subtitles and menu localization.

Second, on a more personal note, we are thrilled to be officially able to tell you that we were nominated to the 2022 BAFTA awards in the following two categories: EE BAFTA Game of the Year & Best Debut Game!

While the Best Debut Game is a jury awarded prize, you can vote for EE BAFTA GotY here and show your support for The Forgotten City: https://ee.co.uk/why-ee/baftagames

Finally, we wanted to give you a heads-up that TFC is now at -30% on Steam until March 6th. If you were waiting for an opportunity to finally take the plunge, there's never been a better time!

Steam Weeklong Sale: Celebrate the Valentine's week until February 21st

The Steam Lunar New Year Sale, it's until February 3rd!

The Forgotten City named GOTY by TheGamer & appears in 50+ GOTY lists!

We're absolutely delighted that not only was The Forgotten City named Game of the Year by The Gamer, it appeared in over 50 "top games of the year" lists!

Here's the list so far:

The Gamer - Game of the Year 2021 - Winner

PC Gamer - GOTY 2021 / Jody Macgregor's Pick - Winner

TechRaptor - 2021 TechRaptor Awards / Best Writing - Reader's Choice Winner

TechRaptor - 2021 TechRaptor Awards / Indie GOTY - Reader's Choice Winner

CNET - CNET's Game of the Year awards - Runner up GOTY

GameSpot - 10 Best Games of 2021 - Unranked List

Polygon - The Best Games of 2021 - Unranked List

GamesRadar+ - The 25 Best Games of 2021 - 24/25

Destructoid - Best PC Games of 2021 - Nominee

Game Informer - Best Adventure Game of 2021 - Runner Up

Game Informer - Game Informer's Best Reviewed Indies of 2021 - Unranked List

Rock Paper Shotgun - RPS' favourite games of the year - 11/24

Game Rant - The 10 Best Indie Games of 2021 - Unranked List

Eurogamer - User's Top 50 Games of 2021 - 36/50

VG247 - The Forgotten City and James' other GOTY picks - Unranked List

Kotaku Australia - The Top 10 Australian Games of 2021 - 2/10

Robot Republic - Indie Game of the Year - Winner

The New Yorker - The Best Video Games of 2021 - Honourable Mention

The AV Club - The 17 Best Games of 2021 - 5/17

NPR - The best games of 2021 chosen by NPR - Unranked List

Financial Times - Top 10 games of 2021 - Unranked List

Bloomberg - These are the 10 best video games we played in 2021 - Unranked List

Metro - GameCentral Video Games Top 20 of 2021 - 6/20

GQ - The Best Games of 2021 - Unranked List

Man of Many - 15 Best Video Games of 2021 - 5/15

Cultured Vultures - The Best Xbox Series X & S Games Of 2021 - 16/16

PlayStation Universe - Best PS5 Indie Games Ranked - 4/12

The Sixth Axis - Game of the Year 2021 / Best Independent Game - Runner Up

The Sixth Axis - Game of the Year 2021 / Best Narrative - Runner Up

The Sixth Axis - Game of the Year 2021 / Best Single Player game - Honourable Mention

WhatCulture - 10 Best Video Games of 2021 - Honourable Mention

Nintendo Life - Best Nintendo Switch Camera Games - Unranked List

Thrillist - The 18 best video games of 2021 - Unranked List

Player 2 - The 2021 Player 2 Awards / Best Indie - Rob Caporetto's pick

GamesHub - The Best Australian Games of 2021 - Unranked List

GameReactor - The Best Indies of 2021 - Unranked List

Prima Games - Game of the Year 2021 Indie - Nominee

Gamepur - The five best indie games of 2021 - 1/5

Kotaku Australia - David's Top 10 Games of 2021 - Unranked List

CogConnected - Ranking the 9 best video game surprises of 2021 - 5/9

CogConnected - Top 20 games you should have played in 2021 - 4/10

Digital Spy - Best Indie Games of 2021 - Unranked List

Laptop Mag - Best Games of the year 2021 - 17/20

DenOfGeek - The Best Games of 2021 - 18/20

True Achievements - Team Picks: Game of the year - Sean's Indie Pick

Well Played - The Best Australian and New Zealand Made Games of 2021 - Unranked List

Gameswelt.de - 13 insider tips for 2021 that you have to catch up on - 1/13

Shacknews - Top 10 Games of the Year 2021 - Honourable Mention

Wcctech - Best Indie Games of 2021 - Unranked List

Anait Games - The Best Games of 2021 / Koldo Gutierrez's Pick - 3rd Place

Thanks to each of these outlets for covering our game, and all those who voted for The Forgotten City!