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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.

Most popular urban setting games

Crazy Taxi
racingWindows XP/98/95
Road Rash
racingWindows XP/98/95
Grand Theft Auto
action-adventureDOS, Windows XP/98/95

Urban setting games

  • sherlock-rose-tattoo-04
  • atrain-1
    DOSMac19924.1/5 Artdink
  • aliencabal-4
    DOS1997freeware3.9/5 QASoft
  • frogger-2
    DOS19834.2/5 Konami
  • robocop-3-07
    DOS19924/5 Digital Image Design
  • zakmckracken-1
    DOS1988protected4.1/5 LucasArts
  • joensfastlane-1
    DOS19914/5 Sierra On-Line

    Jones in the Fast Lane is the kind of game that you don't see often these days. It's a mix between a digital board game and a modern day life simulation. The goal of the game is to live the life of Jones, making choices about school, work, your home, etc. Graphics is a mix of cartonish and digitized characters, very reminishent of some of the best ...

  • circuitsedge-2
    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".

  • policequest2-2
    DOS1988protected4.1/5 Sierra On-Line
  • dreamweb-hotel1
    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...

  • deja-vu-2-2
    DOS19904.1/5 ICOM Simulations
  • deja-vu-1-4
    DOS19874/5 ICOM Simulations
  • cobra-mission-1
    DOS1992NSFW4/5 MegaTech Software
  • bloodnet-4
    DOS1993protected4/5 MicroProse Software

    BloodNet is a blend of point & click adventure (it has puzzles and an adventure style dialogue system) and RPG (player statistics, combat, random encounters), set in a dark cyberpunk New York. BloodNet was developed and published by MicroProse software in 1993. You are Ransom Stark who's goal in the game is to defeat a vampire called Van Helsin...

  • double-dragon-2-03
    DOS19884.2/5 Technos Japan
  • gabrielknight-5
    DOS1993protected4.2/5 Sierra On-Line
  • blue-force-1
    DOS19934.2/5 Tsunami Media
  • vette-5
    DOS19894.1/5 Sphere
  • quarantine-4
    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...

  • yoot-tower-07
    Windows XP/98/9519994/5 OPeNBooK Co.
  • simcopter-08
    Windows XP/98/9519964/5 Maxis
  • bardstale2-3
    DOS19884/5 Interplay Productions
  • rampage-1
    DOS19884.2/5 Midway Manufacturing Company
  • teenagemutant-2
    DOS19893.6/5 Konami
  • inspectorgadget-1
  • space-quest-6-05
    DOSWindows XP/98/951995protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
  • syndicate-5
    DOS1993protected4.1/5 Bullfrog
  • bureau-13-02
    DOS19953.7/5 Take-Two Interactive
  • risedragon-1
    DOS19904.1/5 Dynamix
  • ghostb2-1
    DOS19893.7/5 Dynamix

    Ghostbusters 2 is an abandoned action game based on the movie of the same name, set in New York. Ghostbusters 2 was developed by Dynamix and released by Activision in 1989. It's part of a series of games based on the popular Ghostbuster franchise, being the olny one developed for DOS.