The Good Place Almost Gets A Game Version In The Forgotten City
The critically acclaimed television series The Good Place is unlikely to ever receive a video game adaptation, but The Forgotten City provides the closest thing gamers are likely to see. Over the course of its four-season run, The Good Place took a novel approach to a half-hour comedy series, focusing heavily on philosophy and ethics. The Forgotten City is a similarly unconventional game, with the same focus on philosophical questions and the struggle to determine what is right and wrong as The Good Place. Both feature a cast of likable characters and healthy amounts of comedy to keep the mood light, even when they grapple with heavy philosophical quandaries. The game even follows a story arc that is like The Good Place, with some of the same twists and turns as the beloved TV series, though the conclusions it draws about morality do set the two apart.
[Warning: Spoilers for The Good Place and The Forgotten City are below.]
Before its release as a standalone game, Forgotten City was a Skyrim mod. In its current version, The Forgotten City is built on the Unreal engine and offers a complete story players can finish in 5 to 10 hours. The game begins with the player waking up alongside a river where they have been rescued by a woman named Karen who tasks them with finding her missing friend Al. Searching for Al leads the protagonist into an ancient Roman city. The people of the city live in fear of attracting the wrath of an unknown god whose sole law is “The Golden Rule.” This Golden Rule is a catch-all for any moral infraction ranging from physical violence to stealing, with the unique enforcement that the many are punished for the deeds of the one. If anyone commits a sin in The Forgotten City the entire population of
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