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Plan a city by balancing resources and education, placing services to shape evolving neighborhoods across distinct biomes.
Released 13 Jul 2022
Balance City Resources
Shape Neighborhoods
Unlock Advanced Buildings
Urbek is a city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures.
Developed by Fridus · Published by RockGame S.A.
Build a city from the ground up, managing its growth through supplies such as food, coal, and skilled labor rather than money. Keep production and consumption in balance, and avoid exhausting natural resources before your city can support more efficient buildings.
Place homes, services, farms, and industries to meet local needs and influence nearby development. Neighborhoods and buildings can change as their surroundings meet specific conditions, while industrial productivity and residents’ quality of life can pull your plans in different directions.
Grow your population and provide qualified and scientific work to unlock more advanced structures. Different maps introduce distinct conditions and mechanics, and you can also explore your creation from street level.
Players who enjoy Urbek often praise its resource-based economy, where production chains and careful placement make city growth feel like a spatial puzzle. Reviews also appreciate watching neighborhoods and homes evolve, the variety between maps, and a style of city building that focuses less on money and traffic management. Some players find the same systems restrictive or demanding, so the appeal of its puzzle-like planning is not shared by everyone.
In Urbek, you will be able to build a city of your own design! Manage its natural resources, improve the quality of life of the population, and build its neighbourhoods in your own way.
Breathe life into your city by building different neighbourhoods. Do you want a bohemian neighbourhood? Build bars, parks and libraries, but keep a low population density nearby. Do you want a bourgeois neighbourhood? You need parks and luxury shops.
There is no money in Urbek. Instead, you will have to build everything with your own resources, such as food, coal, or skilled work. There are more than 30 different resources to manage! Manage your natural resources well, so that they do not run out before they can be replaced. How will you choose to produce the energy for your inhabitants and industries?
Education is fundamental! By producing enough qualified work and scientific work, you will be able to build more advanced buildings.
Move around at street level in order to get a more intimate sense of the city you are creating. See and feel the differences between neighborhoods the way your city’s residents do!
The growth of your city will be organic. Some constructions will appear according to the surrounding conditions. For example, buildings with more than two floors will appear in densely populated areas and with basic services.
You can place other buildings by yourself, but they need some conditions. For instance, the local market needs to be close to the farms. The university should have some high schools nearby, which, in turn, require nearby schools.
When it comes to designing your city, you have a variety of viable options. There are no buildings that are superior to others. Every decision will have its pros and cons. Bourgeois houses consume more food and need resources that cost more to produce, but will improve the quality of life of the residents there. On the other hand, improving the productivity of industries will produce more resources, but will diminish the quality of life for residents living in the area.
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 103 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 2 listed on Steam |
| Website | Official website |
