URBO
A prologue to URBO
the GameURBO offers you the opportunity to build towns on countless floating islands. Become a visionary architect and watch small houses grow into bigger ones, then bigger ones into even more, slowly filling the untouched soil of your town. When you run out of space on one island, a new one will appear, followed by another, and so on until you complete the level.
IMMERSION AWAITS
Dive into the inimitable ambience of URBO, where landscapes delight the eye and puzzles evoke memories of mathematically precise riddles from ancient legends. You shall create cities that can only be seen in dreams. Dreams to be remembered and to which you’d wish to return. URBO is a unique mixture of visual minimalism, relaxing music, smooth animations, meditative game tempo, and puzzles that impress with their elegant solutions.
VARIETY AWAITS
URBO invites you to visit myriad worlds and secret places. Futuristic cities floating in the abyss of open space. The capital, hidden in an impregnable canyon in the heart of the desert territory. The peaceful quarters of a small fishing village nestled on the shores of the Mediterranean Sea. Or fantastical islands with mythical artifacts in the middle of the vast ocean. URBO is where dreams of distant places come true. You shall see many worlds, existing ones, lost ones, and these that are yet to be found. The choice is yours.
ENIGMAS AWAIT
URBO gives you hours of pleasant moments of contemplation. Under the disguise of simplicity lie challenges that require concentration. The challenges that generously reward an attentive player. URBO is designed so that its nature is clear at first glance. But it will take time and experience, creative decisions and strategic skills to learn how to solve problems and pick the keys to all the puzzles.
AN ENDLESS PATH AWAITS
There’s no ultimate goal in URBO. The rules are very simple: build houses on playing fields of different geometric shapes. From small buildings come bigger ones, with more inhabitants, then even bigger ones, and so on. Thus grows your city and the population. Once you have no free space, the territory expands. Maybe one day you can build a city that can’t expand anymore. But even then there is always a new playing field of a different form, requiring a fresh approach.
URBO AWAITS YOU ANYTIME
Take your mind off work for a quarter of an hour or spend an entire evening playing the game. Run it while waiting for guests or during a break from your favorite activities. Take a moment to pause if you’re feeling stressed – no danger awaits you in the world of URBO, no hostile animals or plundering bandits, no enemies or ghosts. Shift your attention when you realize you can’t solve an important problem. Who knows, maybe it’s URBO that holds the key to it.
DISCORD AWAITS YOU
Join the game’s Discord to become a part of the community. Take part in the development process by providing your invaluable feedback!
Steam User 18
I believe it is happening with everyone regularly that while travelling on public transport you just see masses playing crappy games on their phones, like mahjong, match3 and so on. Both apple and google stores are full with millions of boring reskins of those games. I remember I played some of those several decades ago, when those felt new in the beginning of the computer era. Never expected I’ll play and enjoy such a game again, especially not on PC.
But I did! If I want to keep it simple, then I can easily call URBO as a Match3 game. If you connect 3 or more same level buildings then all those (3-9) merge into another, one level higher building and you can keep playing until all fields are filled with buildings. That is not all though, if you merge more than 3 of the same building, or if you merge 3 more and the newly created building auto merges with other buildings too, then you will earn points toward action cards which enhance your gameplay even more.
It is easy to spice up a boring genre with some creativity and Door 407 executed that very well. Creating an atmospheric, relaxing environment could encourage players to pick such a game, especially for this cheap price, but the gameplay is also quite different from the known, mass produced, low effort Match3 games.
If you still hesitating you can always try the free version of the game:
Steam Deck compatibility
I played on the steam deck from my first minute until 100% achievement completion. No issues, no forced touch screen and was easy to control. URBO is nice, cheap and available for some short sessions on your handheld.
Hey, I am an achievement hunter!
How to perfect?: Just play every map until 15k+ points. First map might be required only to 10k. With these you unlock new levels (surroundings) and building skins, both required for perfection.
Perfection Difficulty: 4/10. Simple and relaxing, it still might be challenging for some to reach 15k points on waterfall level.
100% time: ~6-7h
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Steam User 7
✅ Peaceful.
✅ Relaxing.
✅ Play at own pace.
❌ Unable to backtrack or escape from card menu.
A 2048 type puzzle game, merge buildings to make bigger buildings and or combo's.
Recommended IF on sale.
Not worth the asking price if not on sale.
Steam User 5
A decent and chill match 3 puzzle game where you build bigger buildings by matching.
You have multiple different locations available (each have different grids or gimmicks), different building skins, times of day and game modes you can play around with. On top of that you can also earn card power ups to help you on your city building journey.
I wish there was some way of getting rid of buildings once they are built to the max level (8) so they are out of your way to be able to build even more and make it essentially an infinite game. Also a way to back out of the card menu without actually using a powerup would be nice.
Runs without any issues on Linux with Proton (9.0-3).
Steam User 5
Super chill Match 3/2048/Dorf Romantik combo. Real pretty, nice way to relax. Perfect steam deck performance.
Steam User 4
I love this game. I'm battling some depression and anxiety, and I have a similar numbers-only game on my phone. I saw this and bought it on a whim. The learning curve was simple due to the other game I've played, and I love the "simplistic" modeling and shaders. It's very relaxing and pleasing, and the ambient music is right up my alley. Definitely recommend!
Steam User 5
This is a peaceful game where you build a city via merge-3 mechanics. It is thus a literal city builder. It is not, however, of the City Builder genre, and isn't trying to be, and seems to be an unfortunate overlap of terminology.
The game clearly seems to have been made with love.
The game isn't revolutionary, it isn't trying to be. It is trying to be nice looking/feeling, simple, and relaxing; perhaps even meditative. The love and passion put into this game is evident, though I think much of it is liable to be missed as much of it is of the "if you do your job right nobody will be sure you did anything at all" type
Steam User 4
Very peaceful and simple experience. A good game to chill out with especially if you need a distraction that isn't going to over-stimulate your senses.