The most popular urban setting games

There are a lot of games that take place in urban environments. Cities from any epoch (both ancient and modern) were often used as the setting, or even for the purpose, for any kind of game: simulation, strategy, action, etc. Think about a medieval town, an ancient city, a modern metropolis, a futuristic megalopolis; you can bet that someone used one of these as the setting of a successful game.

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Murder Club

DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 Riverhill Soft

Crime Wave

DOS19903.7/5 Access Software

Crime City

DOS19934/5

The Godfather

DOS19913.4/5 Creative Materials

APB

DOS19894/5 Atari

Predator 2

DOS19913.7/5 Arc Developments

Homey D. Clown

DOS19933.5/5 Synergistic Software

Defender of Boston: The Rock Island Mystery

DOS19923.2/5

Paperboy 2

DOS19914/5 Tengen

Paperboy 2 is the sequel to the much acclaimed coin-op arcade hit Paperboy in which you have to deliver newspapers to subscribers while avoiding every kind of obstacle. Paperboy 2 is an isometric action game developed by Tengen and was released by Mindscape in 1991 for a number of platform. The DOS version of the game is abandoned.

The Three Stooges

DOS1987freeware3.6/5 Cinemaware

Free D.C.!

DOS19913.6/5 Cineplay Interactive

Frogger Jr.

DOS19843.6/5

Metropolis

DOS19873.8/5 Arcadia Systems

Hoverforce

DOS19903.3/5 Astral Software

Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.9/5 Infocom

Bureaucracy is an abandoned text-adventure game designed by Douglas Adams (yes, the writer of The Hitchhiker Guide of the Galaxy), developed and published by Infocom in 1987. Bureaucracy is a peculiar interactive fiction; the game challenges you to solve frustrating bureaucratic problems in a world populated by strange characters.

The Third Courier

DOS19893.9/5 Manley Associates

The Third Courier is an abandoned (atypical) adventure / role playing game set in Berlin during the cold war era and, of course, it's a spy game. The Third Courier was developed by Manley Associates and released by Accolade in 1989 for DOS, but it was also published for Amiga, Apple IIgs, Atari ST platforms.