The Forgotten City 2015

Is it still worth playing?

A portal in some ruins sends you back to 65 CE, to a Roman city where one sin turns every citizen to gold, in this 2021 mystery adventure based on a Skyrim mod. The rule is called the Golden Rule, and nobody in the city is sure which sins it counts. You are caught in a time loop: when the gold falls, you go back through the portal and the day starts over, keeping what you know and the important items you carry. You can talk to everyone in the city, and what you learn in one loop opens new options in the next, from side quests to telling people what they are about to say. Some story events need a crime to be committed first. There are stretches of light combat and several endings, and each character has an argument of their own that makes your choices harder. The loop is still why it is worth playing now: a mystery you solve with what you carry from one day to the next.