The best urban setting games

Urban setting games

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  SimCity

  DOSWindows 3.xWindows XP/98/951989protected4.1/5 Maxis

  SimCity (or SimCity Classic) is a popular city building simulation in which you, the mayor of a city, have to build a metropolis from the ground up. You can build police and fire departments, assign industrial, residential or commercial areas, manage power distribution, build ports and airports. Grow your city from village to metropolis and try to ...

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  SimTower

  Windows 3.x19944.1/5 OPeNBooK Co.

  SimTower is an old Windows 3.x (1994) building and business simulation game where the player is tasked with the management of a skyscraper nonetheless. Raise floors, build apartments, shops, offices and try to avoid bankruptcy if you can. SimTower spawned some similar games for mobile devices, most notably the wonderful Tiny Tower, It's surprisingl...

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  Les Manley in: Lost in L.A.

  DOS1991protected4.1/5 Accolade
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  Grand Theft Auto

  DOSWindows XP/98/9519974.1/5 DMA Design

  In Grand Theft Auto the player takes the role of a criminal who can freely roam around the city (Liberty City) completing tasks for the local mobs: stealing cars, killing pedestrians, all of it while avoiding the police and the army. The freedom of gameplay and the "I'm the bad guy" appeal of the game made the Grand Theft Auto series very popular.

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  Syndicate

  DOS1993protected4.1/5 Bullfrog
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  Zak McKracken and the Alien Mindbenders

  DOS1988protected4.1/5 LucasArts
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  Omikron: The Nomad Soul

  Windows XP/98/951999protected4.1/5 Quantic Dream
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  Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

  Windows XP/98/951991protected4.1/5 ICOM Simulations
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  Noctropolis

  DOS1994protected4.1/5 Flashpoint Productions
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  Police Quest 2: The Vengeance

  DOS1988protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line
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  Rise of the Dragon

  DOS19904.1/5 Dynamix
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  Deja Vu 2: Lost in Las Vegas

  DOS19904.1/5 ICOM Simulations
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  Murder Club

  DOSWindows XP/98/9519914.1/5 Riverhill Soft
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  Paperboy

  DOS19884.1/5 Atari

  Paperboy was one of (if not THE) arcade hit of 1985. It was developed by Atari for the arcades and later published by Mindscape for DOS in 1988. More conversion were made for quite a few other platforms. Paperboy gameplay is peculiar: you control a boy riding a bicycle and your goal is to deliver as many newspapers as you can to a number of ho...

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  Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

  DOS1988protected4.1/5 Data East
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  A-Train

  DOSMac19924.1/5 Artdink
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  Vette!

  DOS19894.1/5 Sphere
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  The Third Courier

  DOS19894.1/5 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.

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  An American Tail: Fievel Goes West

  DOS19934.1/5 Manley Associates
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  Martian Memorandum

  DOS1991protected4/5 Access Software
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  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.

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  Eagle Eye Mysteries in London

  DOS19944/5 Stormfront Studios
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  Dreamweb

  DOS1994freeware4/5 Creative reality

  Dreamweb is a top-down point and click adventure set in a dark, cyberpunk city. You play as Ryan who has strange, violent, dreams. A top down perspective and the sheer number of items your character can pick up are just two of the peculiarities of this game. Dreamweb was developed by Creative Reality and published by Empire Interactive for DOS in 1...

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  Corruption

  DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
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  Circuit's Edge

  DOS19904/5 Westwood Studios

  Circuit's Edge is a single-player science fiction blend of adventure game and RPG, developed by Westwood Studios and released by Infocom in 1990. Circuit's Edge is based on George Alec Effinger's cyberpunk novel "When Gravity Fails".

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  Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True

  DOS19874/5 ICOM Simulations
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  SimCity 3000

  Windows XP/98/951999protected4/5 Maxis
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  Quarantine

  DOS19944/5 Imagexcel

  Quarantine is a futuristic racing/driving game released by GameTek in 1994 for DOS. Quarantine is set in a dark dystopian futuristic city where the player drives around in a taxi cab, picking up passengers and killing everyone else. If you loved Carmageddon, you will also like Quarantine. Stay away if you don't like gratuitous violence, gore and bl...

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  The Lost Files of Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Rose Tattoo

  DOS19964/5 Mythos Software
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  2400 A.D.

  DOS19884/5 Origin Systems