Game Thoughts: The Forgotten City
I've just finished playing The Forgotten City; a first-person mystery game I bought after perusing a random forum thread.
The game's in the same vein as something like The Outer Wilds in that there's a looping mechanism that has you replaying a short segment of time over and over as you eke out secrets.
Where The Outer Wilds has you flying through space alone, The Forgotten City is a much more social take on the concept, and has you spending most of your time in conversations with ancient Romans.
It was honestly great! There's a couple places (especially at the start) where the dialogue was painfully awkward, and the character models sometimes take you for an uncomfortable trip to uncanny valley, but those are minor nitpicks when stacked up to the fun I had getting to know the characters and figuring out what was going on.
At 6-ish hours to get the "real" ending, it's not a particularly long game, but as of late I've definitely taken a liking to games I can beat in 1-2 weekend evenings.