
The premise is still the same: you unravel the secrets of a hidden city where if even one person sins, everyone dies.

Under the banner of his new studio Modern Storyteller, Pearce has adapted The Forgotten City into a standalone game away from its origins in Tamriel. It was a labor of love that players and critics praised for its writing and production, and is often considered one of the best Elder Scrolls story mods ever made.

The Forgotten City first came to life in 2015 as an award-winning Skyrim expansion mod, which took solo developer Nick Pearce over 1,700 hours to create. Learning how the locals eat and drink is an easy way to learn the lay of the land, and it’s even more effective if you’re playing an RPG where you can actually imagine your character preparing or eating different things. It’s a quirky bit of insight into day-to-day living in ancient Roman society, using food as a universal way of worldbuilding and storytelling. To make sure that the world felt plausible and believable and livable, I had to establish a little ecosystem where food was able to be grown and distributed
