Games set in a urban environment sorted by release date

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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Softporn Adventure

DOS1981freewareNSFW4/5 Sierra On-Line
Frogger

DOS19834.2/5 Konami
Murder by the Dozen

DOS19832.7/5 BrainBank
Alley Cat

DOS19844.3/5 Synapse Software

Alley Cat is an arcade platform game designed by Bill Williams, developed by Synapse and released for IBM in 1984. As a cat, your goal is to jump around the neighborhood, enter apartments - each being a mini-game - to find your lost loved one.
Bouncing Babies

DOS19843.4/5
Drug wars: a game based on the New York drug market

DOS19843.2/5
Frogger Jr.

DOS19843.7/5
Borrowed Time

DOS19853.7/5 Interplay Productions
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.
Sherlock Holmes: The Vatican Cameos

DOS19864/5 Magicom Multimedia
Tass Times in Tonetown

DOS19863.9/5 Interplay Productions
Bureaucracy

DOSMac19873.8/5 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.
Deja Vu: A Nightmare Comes True

DOS19874/5 ICOM Simulations
King of Chicago

DOSMac19873.2/5 Cinemaware
Leisure Suit Larry 1: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards

DOS1987NSFW4.3/5 Sierra On-Line

Leisure Suit Larry: In the Land of the Lounge Lizards is the first adventure of the Leisure Suit Larry series, created by Al Lowe and published by Sierra On-Line. As a virgin male in his forties, your goal is to, well, find the woman of your dreams. In 1991 Sierra released a VGA remake.
Metropolis

DOS19873.8/5 Arcadia Systems
Police Quest 1: In Pursuit of the Death Angel

DOS19874.2/5 Sierra On-Line
Roadwar 2000

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Roadwar Europa

DOS1987protected3.9/5 SSI Strategic Simulations Inc.
Street sports baseball

DOS19873/5 Epyx
Street sports basketball

DOS19873.3/5 Epyx
The Bard's Tale

DOS19874/5 Interplay Productions

The Bard's Tale 1 is the first chapter of a popular first person RPG series by Interplay. You control a group of six adventurers with the task of defeating the evil wizard Mangar the Dark. You will fight monters, explore the city of Skara Brae, solve riddles and guide your party into earning levels, gold and glory.
The Three Stooges

DOS1987freeware3.6/5 Cinemaware
2400 A.D.

DOS19884/5 Origin Systems
Awesome Earl in SkateRock

DOS19882.5/5
Bad Dudes VS Dragon Ninja

DOS1988protected4.1/5 Data East
Batman: the Caped Crusader

DOS19883.9/5 Special FX
Corruption

DOS19884/5 Magnetic Scrolls
Double Dragon

DOS19883.9/5 Technos Japan
Double Dragon II: The Revenge

DOS19884.2/5 Technos Japan