The Forgotten City

I really wanted to like this game. I'd heard good things, saw the overwhelmingly positive reviews, and wanted a puzzle game akin to Myst, Blue Prince or Return of the Obra Dinn. I also appreciate the fact that some guy quit his job and created a game as a passion project. But I just didn't really enjoy it for the most part. There aren't really any real puzzles in this game, where you have to figure out the answer yourself. You're told what to do at every turn and you're basically just running around checking off quest steps. It feels very much like playing Skyrim quests, which make sense as it was originally a Skyrim mod. The gameplay also feels very much like Skyrim. Towards the end, I just wanted it over and done with. Spoilers below. The main chunk of the game is finding the solution to people's problems, then going back in time and telling an NPC named Galerius, and then letting him go off and solve them himself in real time. But you might not always have all the solutions during one loop. So at the end of the game I found the final solution to some guy's problem then had to go back in time and tell Galerius how to do it, and then literally wait for 5 minutes while he ran around and played the game for me. I actually stuck a YouTube video on to pass the time while he did it. If you're looking for a decent puzzle game, I wouldn't recommend it. I'd give it a 6/10.