The Forgotten City releases July 28 on PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, and Xbox Series X/S. If the storytelling of The Elder Scrolls 6 is half as interesting as The Forgotten City's, the next game may be able to step out of Skyrim's shadow. Years after the mod first achieved success, The Forgotten City still has a huge amount to offer Elder Scrolls fans. Some characters from the mod have returned in different ways, but many are brand new. Fans of Skyrim and the original mod will likely find the standalone game accessible, but with a story that is far more character-driven than the last Elder Scrolls game. RS Children Overhaul (Select USSEP Patch) Immersive World Encounters SE + RS Children Patch and Open Cities Patch. The game, like Skyrim, remains first-person and retains some RPG elements. The Forgotten City has greatly expanded from its roots as a mod, but in many ways, it will still feel familiar to fans of The Elder Scrolls 5. Each one of those endings is completely different from the possible endings seen in the Skyrim mod, and they are also affected in smaller ways by the choices the player made throughout the game. There are four new endings and plenty of new twists along the way. RELATED: The Forgotten City's Evolution From Skyrim Mod to Standalone GameĪccording to Pearce, the new standalone game's city is also 30% larger than the one found in the original mod. The Forgotten City's images of its citizens frozen in place as the curse turns them to gold are reminiscent of the frozen-in-time bodies famously found encased in ash in the city of Pompeii, which was destroyed by a volcanic eruption in 79 AD. The Ancient Romans sometimes practiced decimation, randomly killing one in ten men in a cohort of soldiers to punish them for crimes like desertion while still retaining the majority as part of the army. The Dwarves' Law-renamed The Golden Rule-is a form of collective punishment, which was common in Roman military practices and mythology.

Freed from the restrictions of Skyrim's lore, this has allowed the new game to play with some aspects of real-world history. The standalone game won't be set in a Dwemer city, but a lost city from Ancient Rome.

I really wanted to make sure that anyone who played the mod–even recently–will be surprised and delighted by all the new content.' To give you an idea, the new script is well over double the length of the original at 80,000+ words. 'It’s been completely re-written, with a bunch of massive twists, new characters, puzzles, and four new endings. In an interview with Game Rant, Nick Pearce described just some of the huge changes his story has undergone since its inception: Fans of the mod, however, will find that the standalone game has evolved far beyond its humble origins. The Forgotten City mod was brilliantly immersive and made great use of Skyrim's pre-existing mechanics while adding its own time travel elements.

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