I, the Forgotten One

I, the Forgotten One is a 450,000-word interactive novel told entirely through text, with no graphics or sound effects. You play the late king’s eldest child and royal bastard, disinherited and sent as a child to fight on the kingdom’s distant frontier. You survive and become an instrument of war. Now rebellion has left the realm in turmoil, and an old comrade has returned to claim the crown. You are called back to fight and must try to restore peace as despair takes hold.

Your character

You can play as a man or a woman. Your physicality affects how the world perceives you and influences your choice of three fighting styles. You can specialize in three separate aspects of medieval war.

War and relationships

You meet a wide cast of characters, including the mother who disowned you and your surrogate father. Your choices can sustain your relationship with your family or let it collapse, and take you down one of three separate mental paths. The story explores war’s brutal realities and its effects on the mind as you search for purpose and hope.