
You begin the game with a simple task, to try and find an archaeologist who has recently disappeared into an ancient Roman ruin.


It’s a clever and intriguing point-and-click adventure, mostly, but instead of cobbling together illogical, disparate items to make some piece of arcane machinery work, the task is to make a small population of characters not implode and destroy their little out-of-time enclave of ancient Roman civilization. After several years of polish and evolution, the game has just been released on PC and consoles. It has been a while since I’ve called a game “smart,” but that was the first adjective that came to mind as I made my way through The Forgotten City, a game that began in the not quite ancient past as a humble, yet popular, Skyrim mod.
