It just goes to show, compelling stories can be created and experienced in just about any medium.Īs someone that happens to be a sucker for both science fiction tales involving time travel and the history of the ancient world, I knew the moment I saw the premise of The Forgotten City that I wanted to explore what it had in store. Downloaded over three million times by players, the success of the story Pearce wove was so undeniable that he quit his ten year legal career to found an Indie game studio in the hopes of evolving the narrative into an original game. Instead, The Forgotten City is a rather creative original endeavor that sprang forth from the desire to mod the game itself.Ĭreated by Nick James Pearce, The Forgotten City mod was the first mod in history to win a national Writers’ Guild Award when it did so in 2016.
Don’t worry though, this isn’t a clever cover to disguise yet another Skyrim port. The tale of developer Modern Storyteller and their upcoming time-looping mystery title, The Forgotten City, begins with one word: Skyrim.
