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

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Industry Giant 2

Windows XP/98/952002protected4/5 JoWooD Entertainment
Renegade

DOS19883.8/5 Technos Japan
Laura Bow 2: The Dagger of Amon Ra

DOSWindows 3.x1992protected4/5 Sierra On-Line
The Gene Machine

DOS19963.7/5 Divide by zero
The Blues Brothers 2: Jukebox Adventure

DOS19933.8/5 Titus Interactive
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Bouncing Babies

DOS19843.4/5
Ranx: The Video Game

DOS19903.8/5 UBI Soft
Free Enterprise

Windows XP/98/9519964.2/5 Tsunami Media

Dehumanizing offices? Check. Depressing environment? Check. No windows in the whole place? Check. Good, I'm ready to exploit my workers and become great entrepreneur. All of this thanks to Free Enterprise, a simulation for Windows by Tsunami Media, published in 1996.
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.
Manhunter: New York

DOS19883.7/5 Evryware
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective

Windows XP/98/951991protected4.1/5 ICOM Simulations
2400 A.D.

DOS19884/5 Origin Systems
Shinobi

DOS19893.9/5 Sega
Plan 9 From Outer Space

DOS19923.6/5 Gremlin Graphics / Gremlin Interactive
The Hound of Shadow

DOS19893.8/5 Eldritch Games
The Dame Was Loaded

DOS1996protected4.2/5 Beam Software
Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
Eagle Eye Mysteries: The Original

DOS19933.8/5 Stormfront Studios
221B Baker Street

DOS19863.9/5 Datasoft

221B Baker Street is a turn-based strategy strategy game developed by Datasoft. 221B Baker Street is base on the tabletop game of the same name "221B Baker Street" and it plays in a very similar way, with dices, etc.
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...
APB

DOS19894/5 Atari
Berlin 1948

DOS19893.7/5 Time Warp Software
Batman Returns

DOS19923.9/5 Spirit of discovery
Crime Wave

DOS19903.7/5 Access Software
Mean Streets

DOS1989protected4/5 Access Software
Corruption

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Sam and Max Hit the Road

DOSWindows XP/98/951993protected3.9/5 LucasArts
Double Dragon 3: The Rosetta Stone

DOS19924.2/5 East Technology Corp.
Martian Memorandum

DOS1991protected4/5 Access Software