How many copies has The Forgotten City sold?

indielist estimates The Forgotten City has sold between 727,326 and 1,697,094 units (median 1,212,210), derived from its 13,469 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.

Who published The Forgotten City?

The Forgotten City was published by Dear Villagers, developed by Modern Storyteller. See Dear Villagers's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.

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 13,469 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.

Is The Forgotten City worth playing?

Steam players rate The Forgotten City 96% positive across 13,469 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

The Forgotten City

Jul 28, 2021 Adventure $24.99

Developer Modern Storyteller Publisher Dear Villagers

Profile updated May 2026

This adventure game, released in 2021, features RPG elements and has garnered over 10,731 Steam reviews. The developer slug is unknown.

The Forgotten City is a 2021 Adventure game developed by Modern Storyteller and published by Dear Villagers. On Steam it has gathered 13,469 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 method estimates its lifetime sales at roughly 727,000 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

13,469

Positive

96%

Steam appid

874260

Engine

Unknown

Players (snapshot)

Historical snapshot · 2026-05-24 17:05 UTC

Sales estimate

v1.0

727K to 1.7M

units (median: 1.2M)

≈ $10.4M to $24.2M modeled net revenue (fixed store-cut, refund, and regional-price assumptions applied)

727K median 1.7M

+ How is this calculated?

13,469 reviews × NB(90) = 1,212,210 median units

Factor	Adjustment
base	+50
year_2021	+15
price_$25	+5
positive_96%	+10
genre_Adventure	+10
final NB	90

Heuristic display range: median × [0.6, 1.4]. Boundary protection: NB ∈ [15, 150].

Methodology & limitations

Sales estimates use an additive Boxleiter-derived heuristic against public Steam review counts. They are not authoritative sales data, and the fixed display range is not a statistically validated confidence interval. Actual results may fall outside it, especially for deeply discounted or bundle-heavy titles. Algorithm version v1.0. Read the exact method and validation status.

indielist estimates lifetime unit sales for The Forgotten City at roughly 727,000 to 1.7 million copies, with a median around 1.2 million, derived from its 13,469 Steam reviews using a multi-factor Boxleiter method (version v1.0). That median maps to approximately $17.3M 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

54 observed days · window low $5.13

Across 54 observed UTC days from 2026-05-31 to 2026-07-24, the daily lowest tracked USD price across stores ranged from $5.13 to $24.99. The tracked-window low was $5.13 on 2026-05-31.

Real store observations · daily lowest tracked USD price across stores · missing days are not filled.

Where to buy

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Humble Store -79%

$5.13 Buy
Fanatical -79%

$5.87 Buy
Steam reference -75%

$6.24 Buy
Green Man Gaming

$24.99 Buy
GOG.com

$24.99 Buy

Latest tracked store observations (2026-07-24 04:27 UTC), cheapest first. Prices may have changed since observation. Some are affiliate links — we may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Learn more.

Platforms

windows

Frequently asked questions

How many copies has The Forgotten City sold?: indielist estimates The Forgotten City has sold between 727,326 and 1,697,094 units (median 1,212,210), derived from its 13,469 Steam reviews with the white-box Boxleiter v1.0 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.
Who published The Forgotten City?: The Forgotten City was published by Dear Villagers, developed by Modern Storyteller. See Dear Villagers's full catalogue and submission status on indielist.
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 13,469 Steam reviews, of which 96% are positive.
Is The Forgotten City worth playing?: Steam players rate The Forgotten City 96% positive across 13,469 reviews. indielist doesn't score games editorially; it surfaces public review sentiment and a white-box sales estimate so you can judge reception and reach yourself.

Players looking for games like The Forgotten City can compare it on indielist against semantically similar Adventure titles such as The Witness, Firewatch, Cloudpunk, THE LONGING, ranked by shared tags and genre rather than by ad spend. 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.

Matched from shared Steam tags and primary genre. Review count breaks ties; it is not a personal recommendation score.