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Skyrim mod turned standalone murder mystery The Forgotten City launches on Switch

September 17, 2021

The Forgotten City, the award-winning time-looping murder mystery that started life as a Skyrim mod, is launching on Nintendo Switch as a cloud game today. If you aren’t familiar with The Forgotten City, there’s a fair bit to unpack. It was first launched in 2015 as a Skyrim mod set in the Dwarven ruins of The Reach, and it told a trippy, existential story built around a unique time-looping mechanic. After much fanfare and winning a National Writers Guild Award in Australia in 2016, work began on turning The Forgotten City into a standalone game that would replace Skyrim’s world and lore with an original story set in a secret underground city during the Roman Empire. At The Forgotten City’s initial July launch, we sat down with Nick James Pearce , who’s responsible for the mod and standalone game, and he walked us through the game’s conception all the way through its final stage as a standalone open-world RPG. In short, Pearce explained that it felt like “building a house from scratch” and took the help of a Cambridge philosophy professor and a 20-year archaeologist to complete, which should give you some sense of the game’s scope. Calling The Forgotten…

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