Forgotten Lectures - Fall of a Dynasty - The Beginning

About this game

Humanity went out to the stars and conquered a significant portion of the known galaxy. While technology advanced society did not necessarily. Greed, the struggle for power and influence is stronger than ever before and while besieged from outside forces there’s no lack of internal strife.

Follow the story of a young noble who is destined to marry the future ruler of the Empire…

if he manages to stay alive

Meet new friends and enemies. Discover new places and find your own position on the board of an intergalactic struggle for power.


Find out who you can trust and build up relationships. See if you can manage to live long enough to rule the galaxy one day.

You will take over as a young noble and discover a new world.
Visit different places and people and learn about the world around you and the state of the Empire.


But be careful, some of your decisions might have serious consequences for your future!


This game is a western style visual novel where you are lead through the story of the main character and are able to make decissions over time by visiting different places, responding differently in dialoges to influence the ending.


After finishing the game at least once, you can restart and choose an extended playthrough with about 50 new scenes and some extra characters to interact.
While the standard playthrough only deals with the story parts the main character witnessed the extra mode adds more context to the story. Events that our protagonist didn't take part in directly.

Latest news

• Patch Notes·27 Nov 2024Official

  Unexpected update

  With the last major content update I thought the game is finished and I'll head straight into working on part 2... Well things went sideways ːsteamfacepalmː During several events in the past half year since final release, many volks were interested in the story but had no pc or steam access, so I decided to make a graphic novel version as well. So in the past 4-5 months I had to rerender a lot of stuff and rework the visual novel designed for 16:9 into a comic format 7:10 ːsteamfacepalmː As this is finally done and most of the 16+ edition is out there for free on some plattforms and a digital as well as physical version of an 18+ version containing things Steam accused me being part of the initial game ːsteamfacepalmː ːsteamfacepalmː (the hard 18+ rating) What s the point? Well duing the transformation into a comic format I had a couple of pages to fill, to stay inside certain format limitation, I added a few scenes that are not in the game version. {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44427939/91933503efaf502fc64011a373402546e897948b.jpg If all works out I will release an updated version before end of the year adding in those scenes Also finally the real work on part has started ːsteamhappyː
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• Announcements·7 Jun 2024Official

  it is done...

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44427939/455564ca3293ada604449f09c8bcbe3cb65d7f4a.png The last major content update is here with some new scenes, more music and a few minor bugfixes. Now it s time to get working on the comic version for part 1 while cranking up the development on the next part of the series. Also the first dedicated song to the series will be on our socials in a week "Fall of a Dynasty - The Rhynos Incident" might drop on Steam Early Access hopefully by the end of 2024 and continue the story.
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• Announcements·22 May 2024Official

  Leaving Early Access in June

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44427939/e37c18a71a24b9248b9d5787724ce85e70d55c57.jpg While the past month was quite on the public front, a lot was ongoing. The final content update will most likely be released on June 14th in sync with a major local gaming event. The last regular content update will feature a couple of more scenes for the 2nd playthrough as well as several new bgm tracks and the piano version of the first official song for the series. In addition after creating a little free preview comic for the game to hand out at events there are plans to turn the game into a full comic series. There is also a music video in works which should be released when going live. Also prepwork for the next part of the series already started. More on that once there is a realistic timeline available.
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• Patch Notes·15 Mar 2024Official

  March content update

  As promised the march content update is right on time. Changes - 18 new scenes for the 2nd playthrough - 2 new characters in 2nd playthrough - Upgraded several older scene backgrounds - Upgraded several old character models - Minor text and background fixes What’s next? There will be one more larger content update with additional scenes and upgrades on the sound and music for some scenes. With that the game will leave Early Access. The planned final release date is mid of June which will be in sync with a local gaming event to maximise promotion potential. In the meantime work on storyline for part 2 has already started.
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• Patch Notes·17 Feb 2024Official

  Update on 2nd Content Update

  {STEAM_CLAN_IMAGE}/44427939/805544f974f5324e4cc380e7ba86d3015f1c1f67.jpg After having a couple of busy weekends due to some local conventions and RL work the progress with the planned 2nd content update is in line with the overall plan. As of now, I expect it to hit Steam around mid of March. Aiming for Friday the 15th but that’s not 100% set in stone ;) What will be new? approx 18-20 new scenes for the 2nd play through 2 upgraded character models. Admiral Horn got an upgrade, forcing me to re-render my favourite ball video… again… I hope for the last time ever… 1 new character appearance and a brief look at the empires forces several older scenes got some visual upgrades to get them more in line with later scenes and add some more realism
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