You begin the adventure in the present day, stumbling into some ancient Roman ruins. He named his invention "Submachine" due to the belief that it was situated underground. The Forgotten City is literally a time-loop game, and it makes excellent use of that magical reset button. The Root was mostly the work of a creative genius, who received directives to create the machine. Roll your own dice and keep your own notes as you explore infinite procedurally generated dungeons. It is inspired by old school dungeons and dragons, parser based adventure games, traditional roguelikes, and post-forge tabletop roleplaying games. Its capabilities are similar to the basement from Submachine 1. Ruins is hybrid roguelike/TTRPG dungeon crawling adventure game for one player and friends. However, the Root is much smaller than modern submachines, a mere experiment in comparison. It was an engineering miracle at the time.
The Root is the first man-made submachine, built between 19. The cipher plate number 1 found in this area.