Urbek City Builder

In Urbek City Builder, you design a city by managing its resources, improving residents’ quality of life and shaping its neighbourhoods. You decide how to produce energy for residents and industries, and how to balance the needs of the population with the demands of production.

Shape your neighbourhoods

You bring neighbourhoods to life by choosing which buildings surround them. A bohemian neighbourhood needs bars, parks and libraries, as well as low population density nearby. A bourgeois neighbourhood needs parks and luxury shops.

Buildings have different costs and effects. Bourgeois houses consume more food and require resources that cost more to produce, but they improve residents’ quality of life. Increasing industrial productivity produces more resources while lowering quality of life for nearby residents; no building is simply better than the alternatives.

Manage resources

Urbek has no money. You build using resources such as food, coal and skilled work, with more than 30 different resources to manage. You must manage natural resources so they do not run out before they can be replaced.

Education supplies qualified work and scientific work, allowing you to build more advanced buildings.

Grow the city

The city develops organically: some buildings appear when their surroundings meet the right conditions. Buildings taller than two floors, for example, appear in densely populated areas with basic services.

Other buildings can be placed by you, but they also require specific conditions. A local market needs to be near farms; a university needs nearby high schools, which in turn require nearby schools.

View from the streets

You can move through the city at street level and see how its neighbourhoods differ from the perspective of its residents.