The Forgotten City
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This adventure game, released in 2021, features RPG elements and has garnered over 10,731 Steam reviews. The developer slug is unknown.
Overview
The Forgotten City is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers. On Steam it has gathered 13,222 player reviews, 96% of them positive, which counts as a overwhelmingly positive reception among indie titles in the Adventure category. The game is available on windows, and launched at $25. The pairing of developer Modern Storyteller with publisher Dear Villagers is one of the studio-publisher relationships indielist tracks, letting players find comparable games and letting developers and investors study how Adventure projects reach the market. indielist's white-box model estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 714,000 to 1.7 million units, with the full Boxleiter factor breakdown shown on this page rather than a single black-box figure. Within indielist's catalog of indie games mapped to their studios, publishers, and funding, The Forgotten City can be compared against similar Adventure titles and benchmarked on review counts and estimated sales.
Reviews
13,222
Positive
96%
Steam appid
874260
Engine
n/a
Sales estimate
vv1.0714K to 1.7M
units (median: 1.2M)
≈ $10.2M to $23.8M net revenue (Steam cut + refunds + regional discount applied)
indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Forgotten City at roughly 714,000 to 1.7 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 13,222 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter model (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $17.0M in net revenue after Steam's 30% cut, regional pricing, and refunds. Unlike black-box trackers, the full calculation is shown on this page: a base review-to-sales multiplier is adjusted for release year, launch price, review sentiment, studio size, and genre, and every adjustment is listed so developers, publishers, and investors can audit exactly how the figure was reached. The range itself reflects genuine uncertainty — review-to-sales ratios vary widely between games — so indielist publishes a low, median, and high band rather than a false-precision single number, and treats free-to-play, heavily discounted, and bundle-distributed titles as having wider error margins still.
Price history
90d · low $13.10Over the last 90 days the price ranged from $13.10 to $24.99, averaging $22.39 across 3 discount windows, with a historical low of $13.10 on 2026-05-08.
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Where to buy
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- Fanatical -79%$5.95 Buy
- Steam reference -75%$6.24 Buy
- GOG.com -75%$6.25 Buy
- Green Man Gaming
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Platforms
windows
Tags
AdventureTime TravelMysteryExplorationChoices MatterInvestigationStory RichIndieRPGFirst-PersonMultiple EndingsWalking SimulatorAtmosphericPhilosophicalGreat SoundtrackRemakeFantasyRomeOpen WorldSilent Protagonist
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Forgotten City sold?
- indielist estimates The Forgotten City has sold between 713,988 and 1,665,972 units (median 1,189,980), derived from its 13,222 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Forgotten City?
- The Forgotten City was developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers.
- When was The Forgotten City released?
- The Forgotten City was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does The Forgotten City have on Steam?
- The Forgotten City has 13,222 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Frequently asked questions
- How many copies has The Forgotten City sold?
- indielist estimates The Forgotten City has sold between 713,988 and 1,665,972 units (median 1,189,980), derived from its 13,222 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter vv1.0 method. The full breakdown is shown on the page.
- Who developed The Forgotten City?
- The Forgotten City was developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers.
- When was The Forgotten City released?
- The Forgotten City was released in 2021.
- How many reviews does The Forgotten City have on Steam?
- The Forgotten City has 13,222 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Ecosystem
indielist positions The Forgotten City within the Adventure segment so players can surface comparable titles by shared tags and genre rather than by storefront promotion. On the developer side, Modern Storyteller's other releases and Dear Villagers's wider catalog are one click away, letting developers benchmark where The Forgotten City sits among a studio's body of work and how its publisher's portfolio performs. Because indielist maps studios, publishers, games, and funding into one connected graph, the same The Forgotten City page serves three audiences at once: players hunting their next Adventure game, developers studying how comparable projects were positioned and what they sold, and investors tracing which teams and labels are active in the space. A machine-readable markdown mirror of this page is published at the same path with a .md suffix for AI assistants, and its review, price, and sales-estimate figures are refreshed on a schedule rather than frozen at launch.