- Dino Digital

SummaryForgotten Fields is a cozy narrative game about Sid - a struggling writer who travels back to his childhood home one last time before it's sold off. Visit old friends, relive memories, solve puzzles and play through sections of Sid's book in this warm game about nostalgia and the passage of time.
Developer:Frostwood Interactive
Forgotten Fields
Released On:
Apr 14, 2021
Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
User score
Mixed or Average
6.0
My Score
Metascore
Mixed or Average
59
0% Positive
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88% Mixed
7 Reviews
7 Reviews
13% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Apr 15, 2021
70
To forget or not to forget? That is the question. With a more personal venture to its name, Frostwood Interactive attempts to denote itself as a company that inspires people's emotional core. Forgotten Fields isn't the most riveting piece of gaming available—actually playing the game comes with its hurdles. Where its success lies is in the way it communicates and molds its characters, how it attempts to bring them to life and have them identifiable. From this, the game is a modest and simple triumph of earnest self-reflection. As it came to an end, I found myself wanting to try just a little harder in my own life.
Apr 14, 2021
70
Leaving home, getting married, moving to the city, coming home and finding out that your home isn’t the place it used to be—all of these are part and parcel of growing up. Sid, living on his own and with a published novel under his belt, might expect to be largely done with that process, but Forgotten Fields’ greatest insight is that growing up isn’t such a simple thing. It’s not a linear process with clear rites of passage; I’m not sure that it ever really was.
May 13, 2021
68
An experience which exudes humanity and warmth, from the writing to the visual style and music. A short game with some issues, but it packs a true emotional weight.
Apr 14, 2021
60
Forgotten Fields is a flawed, sometimes frustrating experience, but its best moments are authentic and relatable enough to still make the journey worthwhile.
Apr 12, 2021
60
There are a number of technical issues which blight Forgotten Fields but there’s nothing here that couldn’t be addressed over time and with patches. The core of the game, featuring a very human and relatable story mirrored in a literary fantasy one, shines bright enough that those who can forgive a few glitches will find something unique and interesting here.
Apr 12, 2021
50
Though it’s not a bad game, Forgotten Fields is hampered by more than a handful of technical issues. Prepare to glitch through furniture and objects as you try and make your way around this otherwise beautiful world. It’s a shame, because there are more than a few truly lovely moments, and you’ll likely find yourself relating to the game’s cast of characters. Perhaps wait until its bugs have been addressed, because there’s a good story to be experienced here.
Jun 9, 2021
30
With not much of value in the narrative or the gameplay, Forgotten Fields’ merits are some pretty virtual environments and an original soundtrack that often takes the spotlight. There are ways in which Forgotten Fields could have worked as an emotionally powerful experience, but these avenues go under-explored and the result is something that I can’t recommend, even to enthusiasts of this particular genre-transcending premise.
User score
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6.0
25% Positive
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Jan 18, 2024
5
Jugabilidad: El control deja bastante que desear y las hitboxes del entorno lo empeoran, además el cursor se siente torpe y hay ciertas inconsistencias como seleccionar un objeto de la mochila con click y tras aparecer las opciones para usarlo, esas opciones no se seleccionan con click, solo con la E pese a que durante todo el juego las opciones de diálogo se pueden confirmar de ambas formas.
Gráficos: Algunas cosas como el agua o las nubes en su mayoría están muy bien logradas, pero otras como la hierba, algunos modelos, texturas y sobre todo animaciones, me hacen pensar que la mayor parte está sacada de la asset store de unity y aunque el juego es muy bonito en las secuencias contemplativas, se nota en una gran inconsistencia durante absolutamente todo el juego.
Narrativa: Si bien la "dimensión real" está a la altura de las expectativas y trata temas profundos, creo que lo hace demasiado pronto, cuando el jugador aun no se siente cercano a los personajes, y la "dimensión del libro" se me hizo muy pesada (sobre todo al encarar la recta final cuando deciden hacer un repaso por todo lo sucedido, pero con mucho mas texto, a partir de ese momento omití las cinematicas) hasta el punto de perder completamente el poquísimo interés que tenía en esa trama.
Sonido: Muy buena banda sonora la mayoría del tiempo, exceptuando algunas canciones ambientes, y los efectos de sonido en su mayoría también están lo suficientemente bien, pero hay algunos que chirrían y otros que acaban cansando y resultan repetitivos.
General:Tiene cosas muy bien hechas y otras muchisimas que parecen sacadas de juegos de hace 15 años. Además como experiencia personal, me he saltado una cinematica sin querer, en otro momento he tenido que empujar a un NPC para solucionar un fallo de pathfinding y en la ultima escena he tenido que cerrar y abrir el juego porque tras intentar cargar partida se corrompía el escenario y no me dejaba andar.
En resumen: inconsistente.
PC Report
Platforms:
- PC
- Xbox One
- Nintendo Switch
- Xbox Series X
- PlayStation 4
Initial Release Date:Apr 14, 2021
Publisher:Dino Digital
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