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The time loop, for example, plays a leading role and is also a mechanic to be exploited to solve all the mysteries of the city. Some traits of the history of the mod have been re-proposed practically unchanged. The forgotten city of the title is in this case a settlement built in the depths of the earth that in aesthetics recalls a Roman city. The setting of the new The Forgotten City is divided between the modern era, in which the protagonist lives, and an imaginative version of the Roman Empire. The release date, first scheduled for December 2020, is finally postponed to summer 2021 on PC, PlayStation 4 and 5, Xbox One and Series X / S and Nintendo Switch. The announcement comes in 2018, a year later the studio reveals that it has found a new publisher, Dear Villagers. All references to The Elder Scrolls imagery are removed and the game engine becomes Unreal Engine 4. of secondary importance.Īfter realizing the extent of the mod’s success, Nick James Pearce founded Modern Storyteller in 2016 and begins work on an independent version of The Forgotten City (as we had previously reported). The setting is a forgotten Dwemer city, where the protagonist is trapped in a time loop that can only be broken by discovering what happened in that place: the adventure is mainly composed of dialogues and puzzles, while a role is relegated to combat. The mod’s tale is grounded in the mysteries of the Dwemer people, an ancient race that lived for millennia in the subsoil of Tamriel and then mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind ruins and still functioning automatons.

The Forgotten City has garnered unanimous acclaim from every direction: the press has spoken well of it, it has obtained praise from the world of development, it has been downloaded more than three million times and is translated into eight different languages.

It is a project carried out in over 1,700 hours with the collaboration of both composer Trent Moriarty, active in the panorama of Skyrim mods, and several voice actors, as well as written, developed and programmed by a single person: Nick James Pearce, for whom obtained the Australian Writers’ Guild.

In October 2015, The Forgotten City was released, mod per The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim the result of a noteworthy productive effort.
