Games like The Forgotten City
If The Forgotten City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Eternal Threads, The Unclosed Case and Paradise Killer — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers single out its plot twist is exceptional, story is the gameplay and contemplative. Each pick is ranked by what players of this game also play, shared genres and tags, and review-mined similarity — not a generic popularity list.
Get personalized picks →The Forgotten City is an adventure RPG developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers that centers on time-loop mechanics, investigation, and cause-and-effect puzzle-solving set in ancient Rome. Players explore the ruins of an underground city and travel roughly 2000 years into the past to unravel a murder mystery, using dialogue-driven narrative and character interaction to gather information and find solutions. Reviewers highlight story as the core gameplay experience, noting that trial-and-error exploration is rewarded through the time-rewind system. The game holds a Metacritic score of 85 and a 96% positive rating from over 7100 Steam reviews, with verified compatibility on Steam Deck. Priced at $24.99, it offers a challenging solo experience of medium length.
About The Forgotten City: 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.
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Eternal Threads
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Shares an emotional mood with The Forgotten City.
Top pick for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Eternal Threads is a single-player, first-person story-driven puzzle game of time manipulation, choice and consequence.
The Unclosed Case
WHY THIS
Second-strongest match for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Truth is not singular. Gather the evidence, build your own scenario, and experience the outcome.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with The Forgotten City.
Third-strongest match for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
The Signifier Director's Cut
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an unsettling mood with The Forgotten City.
Ranked #4 for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
This story-driven adventure follows a mystery of death and despair from reality into the surreal realms of objective memories and subjective experiences. Search the mind, solve puzzles, and unravel the dark truth in this psychological thriller.
Shanghai Summer
WHY THIS
Shares dialogue driven narrative and a contemplative mood with The Forgotten City.
Ranked #5 for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Shanghai Summer is an adventure game set in the millennium. Our protagonist, Baichuan, goes through a series of "anomalies" over the length of twelve days. In his pursuit of the truth, he found that his hopes and regrets from the past finally seem to converge. Will he be able to "fix" it for good?
The Talos Principle
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Shares a mysterious mood with The Forgotten City.
Ranked #6 for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
The Talos Principle is a first-person puzzle game in the tradition of philosophical science fiction. Made by Croteam and written by Tom Jubert (FTL, The Swapper) and Jonas Kyratzes (The Sea Will Claim Everything).
The Bridge Curse 2: The Extrication
WHY THIS
Shares puzzle solving and an emotional mood with The Forgotten City.
Ranked #7 for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Try to escape with your life in a first-person survival horror adventure. Play through the eyes of four distinct characters as you evade and confront terrifying ghosts, unravel mind-bending puzzles, and unearth a sinister conspiracy…
The Witness
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Shares puzzle solving with The Forgotten City.
Ranked #8 for The Forgotten City fans by collaborative filtering across millions of Steam libraries. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
You wake up, alone, on a strange island full of puzzles that will challenge and surprise you.
Reviewers mention these as similar to The Forgotten City
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Outer Wilds
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Shares an emotional mood with The Forgotten City.
Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Named Game of the Year 2019 by Giant Bomb, Polygon, Eurogamer, and The Guardian, Outer Wilds is a critically-acclaimed and award-winning open world mystery about a solar system trapped in an endless time loop.
Paradise Killer
WHY THIS
Shares an unsettling mood with The Forgotten City.
Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Paradise Island, a world outside reality. There’s been a murder that only "investigation freak" Lady Love Dies can solve. Gather evidence and interrogate suspects in this open world adventure. You can accuse anyone, but you’ll have to prove your case in trial. It’s up to you to decide who’s guilty.
The Stanley Parable
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Shares an unsettling mood with The Forgotten City.
Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
The Stanley Parable is a first person exploration game. You will play as Stanley, and you will not play as Stanley. You will follow a story, you will not follow a story. You will have a choice, you will have no choice. The game will end, the game will never end.
18 MINUTES
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Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
18 Minutes is a single player FPS that combines stealthy precision with heart-pounding action. Engage in intense firefights, strategically infiltrate enemy base, and make split- second decision to outmaneuver enemy. Get ready for a gaming experience that offers the best of stealth and FPS action
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut
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Shares a contemplative mood with The Forgotten City.
Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares RPG with The Forgotten City.
Disco Elysium - The Final Cut is a groundbreaking role playing game. You’re a detective with a unique skill system at your disposal and a whole city to carve your path across. Interrogate unforgettable characters, crack murders or take bribes. Become a hero or an absolute disaster of a human being.
DEATHLOOP
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Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play.
DEATHLOOP is a next-gen FPS from Arkane Lyon, the award-winning studio behind Dishonored. In DEATHLOOP, two rival assassins are trapped in a mysterious timeloop on the island of Blackreef, doomed to repeat the same day for eternity.
Return of the Obra Dinn
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Shares a mysterious mood with The Forgotten City.
Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Lost at sea 1803 ~ The good ship Obra Dinn.
Detroit: Become Human
WHY THIS
Shares an emotional mood with The Forgotten City.
Reviewers of The Forgotten City cross-mention this title as a similar play. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Detroit: Become Human puts the destiny of both mankind and androids in your hands, taking you to a near future where machines have become more intelligent than humans. Every choice you make affects the outcome of the game, with one of the most intricately branching narratives ever created.
Cheaper alternatives
Games in the same vein priced at least 40% below The Forgotten City at current Steam store prices.
Garry's Mod
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Priced ~80% under The Forgotten City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
Garry's Mod is a physics sandbox. There aren't any predefined aims or goals. We give you the tools and leave you to play.
Lethal Company
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Priced ~60% under The Forgotten City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.
People Playground
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Priced ~60% under The Forgotten City on Steam right now. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
Shoot, stab, burn, poison, tear, vaporise, or crush ragdolls in a large open space.
Fallout: New Vegas
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Priced ~60% under The Forgotten City on Steam right now. Shares RPG with The Forgotten City.
Welcome to Vegas. New Vegas. Enjoy your stay!
Vampire Survivors
WHY THIS
Priced ~80% under The Forgotten City on Steam right now. Shares Indie and RPG with The Forgotten City.
Mow down thousands of night creatures and survive until dawn! Vampire Survivors is a gothic horror casual game with rogue-lite elements, where your choices can allow you to quickly snowball against the hundreds of monsters that get thrown at you. Be the bullet hell!
Free alternatives
Free-to-play games that recommended players of this title also tend to enjoy.
Doki Doki Literature Club!
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
The Literature Club is full of cute girls! Will you write the way into their heart? This game is not suitable for children or those who are easily disturbed.
Life is Strange - Episode 1
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Episode 1 now FREE! Life is Strange is an award-winning and critically acclaimed episodic adventure game that allows the player to rewind time and affect the past, present and future.
Ultimate Custom Night
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
Welcome to the ultimate FNAF mashup, featuring 50 selectable characters and custom difficulties!
ENA: Dream BBQ
WHY THIS
Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Experience surreal environments and inexplicable characters as ENA in a new wild world.
The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
Sonic the Hedgehog...was murdered!? Get to the bottom of the mystery in this brand-new adventure!
Indigo Park: Chapter 1
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie and Adventure with The Forgotten City.
Explore the abandoned childhood wonder of Indigo Park! Guided by Rambley the Raccoon, help restore power to the destroyed amusement park while you run from the reason it shut down.
The Looker
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
You wake up, alone, on a strangely familiar island full of puzzles that will frustrate and annoy you.
missed messages.
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Free-to-play pick from the same recommendation pool — no purchase to try it. Shares Indie with The Forgotten City.
‘goth gf’s iPhone’ airdrops you - accept or decline? A love/horror story about life, death, & memes.
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Frequently asked about The Forgotten City
- Is The Forgotten City verified for Steam Deck?
- Yes — The Forgotten City is Steam Deck Verified, meaning Valve has confirmed it runs well on the Deck with full controller, text legibility, and default configuration support.
- How much does The Forgotten City cost?
- The Forgotten City is listed on Steam at 24.99 USD (current store price; Steam sales may reduce this temporarily).
- What games are most similar to The Forgotten City?
- Based on Steam play patterns and shared genres/tags, the games most often recommended alongside The Forgotten City are Eternal Threads, The Unclosed Case, Paradise Killer.
- Who developed The Forgotten City?
- The Forgotten City was developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers.
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