Action-adventure games are a gaming genre that balance a fun world for players to experience the story and engaging action elements through some expertly designed combat mechanics. Along with RPGs and competitive multiplayer titles, action-adventure offerings are some of the most sought-after.
The monopoly on action-adventure games is generally controlled by the AAA studios, which churn out these titles almost once every year. And yet, sometimes, certain independent studios release a product that ends up being popular enough to be compared to the industry’s big names due to excellence in story and gameplay.
In the last few years, such indie action-adventure games have been released that gained lots of attention and have been commended for their achievements.
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Released as a full game of itself, The Forgotten City initially started life as an extensive mod for The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim. It was created by veteran mod designer Nick Pearce, who released the mod in 2016.
Since then, he has found the developer studio known as Modern Storyteller, which worked on the complete version of this title.
The Forgotten City came out on July 28, 2021, and is an action-adventure game that saw the protagonist being transported to an ancient Roman civilization hidden underneath Rome. In this city, players can talk to various intricately designed NPCs and pick up quests from them, completing which can progress the larger narrative.
Played in a first-person perspective, this action-adventure title offers some minimal combat, specific to certain parts of the title or a quest. Users can use a repeating time loop to learn new things and affect the story once the loop resets every time, choosing to
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