Urban Empire
Skip · Strategy · 2017
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 2, under the fair line, at $29.99.
- Cost per hour▼
- $3.70/hr
- Reviews▼
- 34% of 2,464
- Critics
- 62 players 28 lower
- Genre rank
- Top 96% Strategy
Holding it back: Reviews, Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 8.1h
- Finish
- 5% reach the ending
- Achievements
- 74
Price and sales
- Sales
- 61 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $2.99 December 2024
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 0 now
- Cheaper than
- 3% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 1% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
72% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
61 discounts in the 10 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 97 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 99 percent. The Guild II Renaissance ($9.99, scores 60) outscores it, and so does Citystate II ($24.99, scores 32). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Urban Empire
The press liked it more than its buyers did, 62 against 34 percent.
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On an 8.1-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour. Inside the two-hour refund window, 21 percent of the 350 reviews written there were positive, against 34 percent overall, and those are 18 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Interesting game design, but terrible, and I mean downright bad game mechanics, clearly not well flushed out. most decisions feel rudimentary or not explained. bad UI screen is stuck at just an awful camera angle but that's all Kalypso games from this era. sometimes the politicians simply want to screw your character over and railroad some bad edicts or legislation, truly a frustrating game. edit: and that's if you...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
It's an unfinished and abandoned game. It crashes half the time. Steam should remove this game. It is a ripoff. Probably won't waste my money on anything else from steam because of this.
I do think there is fun to be had playing the game and that is why I recommend it but I also agree that there are lots of problems with it. Because of all the bad reviews which again I do think raise valid points I only dared get it on a big discount because I was very curious to try it out. And after just a couple playthroughs I do think the game has a very interesting and enjoyable concept, it could have been a...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
Urban Empire is a ‘City Ruler’, pioneering a new breed of strategy game that combines city builder features with political scheming and adds profound social and historical events into the mix, creating a whole new gameplay experience.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 6 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 / AMD HD 6850 2GB, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
Cite this score
Urban Empire scores 2/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/352550/urban-empireReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 19, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.