This kind of game is very definitely my jam. Sounds like it's a bit short (albeit with some replay value), and I'll wait for some more reviews before grabbing a copy, but will very likely buy it.

Sounds really interesting as i enjoy the roman era. Going to buy.

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i actually think this looks pretty damn cool. i love ancient world settings with a twist. will likely buy.

There are actually lot of achievement hunters who care. Not me personally (apparently you neither) but that doesn't mean that they don't exist.

Looks very interesting. I'll get it as soon as GOG becomes DRM free again. (or at least honest with labeling the games that have DRM as such)

Care to elaborate? Is The Forgotten City DRM'ed?

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That's for you and everyone else who a) irrationally hates achievements and/or b) doesn't get the point of GOG players being treated as second-class citizens by game devs, be it with missing/late patches, OSTs, game expansions and - horror of horrors - not adding the fucking achievements that they have already implemented on other clients (i.e. Steam).

Are they Steam fanboys trolling over here?

GOG previously announced a partnership with Epic Fail Games Store in which DRMed games (from Epic) would be available for purchase via a new store within the GOG Galaxy 2.0 app. This was confirmed by GOG staff member Chandra on the GOG reddit. By the way, the announcement of the partnership on this forum was done in the Galaxy sub-forum in as subtle, and some would say "weasel word-like", way as possible. It was vocal users who brought it to the attention here on the main forum iirc.

The flagship game Cyberpunk has "My Rewards" singleplayer content locked behind Galaxy client usage. In other words, the player is not permitted to unlock the content if you don't use GOG's proprietary online client. That is unequivocally DRM by any reasonable (imo) definition, and it is being done by CDPR themselves!

More recently, I recall (but can't find the quote at the moment) that GOG said something to the effect that they respect developers' decision to design their game the way they (the developers) want, including some DRM, as long as it is only minor and doesn't make the game feel "incomplete". Again, I apologize for not having the exact quote in front of me. Please clarify for me if I'm misunderstanding.

By the way these are just the more recent "hits". A now-removed game in For the King at one point inadvertently contained a Galaxy requirement to even get to the start menu. DLC for Deus Ex Mankind Divided was, evidently, not tested via offline installers as that was inaccessible without Galaxy at launch (but fixed after).

Additionally, for what it's worth, offline installers have consistently been found by users to be outdated behind Galaxy versions in some cases weeks, in some cases months, in some cases years, but that itself is not DRM, just a representation of what the priority is.

I am as anti-Scheme as they come. Can't speak for others boycotting in whatever way they are, but it's this DRM nonsense that kept me away from PC gaming for well over a decade until I found enough big DRM-free releases on GOG to justify rejoining this world. That's why it's so important to me at least, to nip it in the bud wherever it is spotted. And, much more generally in gaming and life, we have seen again and again that if companies exercising anti-consumer behavior are given an inch, they will take a mile.

My boycott is different from others in that I will buy what I consider must-haves...still trying to determine if The Forgotten City is that. It sure looks pretty to me regardless.

Shocking news. Offline DRM-free installers is the main reason why I buy games on GOG or repurchase those I already have on Steam.

Many of those "Steam fanboys" have 500+ or even thousands of games in their Gog libraries and were known for being dedicated to helping this community grow. Mrkgnao for example created a tool called MaGog to browse and search Gog's catalog which was functionally vastly superior to anything Gog ever created.

Sadly Gog and CDPR made several decisions that led many of their most faithful customers to feel "betrayed" in that they were ditching the very concepts that attracted many users here in the first place, primarily the commitment to being DRM-free.

Thus many of us decided we weren't comfortable with the path Gog was taking and decided to boycott. Not because "we hate Gog" like some idiots will certainly claim, but because we only want to support a store if it keeps heading in the same customer-oriented direction that it once had. While Gog is still the best DRM-free store, the path they're taking is one of trading everything that made them the best store for a shot at growing into a half-assed Steam clone.

Is this first person perspective only or is there also third person view?

Sometimes I wonder how someone can manage to botch the release of a soundtrack, given how easy it is these days to export to WAV, FLAC, or other lossless formats at a master quality.