Games like The Forgotten City

The closest matches to The Forgotten City: Outer Wilds, The Talos Principle, Pentiment, Eternal Threads, and The Old City: Leviathan. Ranked by imho.run from Steam co-play data, shared tags and reviews.

If The Forgotten City is your kind of game, the closest matches are Outer Wilds, The Talos Principle and Pentiment — picked from the ranked list below. Reviewers describe it as contemplative, emotional and mysterious, and single out its cause and effect and character interaction. 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.

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.