Urban Tale

Urban Tale

Released Oct 2021

Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life. You start from scratch, having nothing in the city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to succeed in life.

68% positive · 215 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
High confidence

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Evaluation

Urban Tale launched into Early Access and graduated to its full 1.0 release on October 7, 2021, after 675 days of development and 33 updates. In the launch announcement on that date, the developer was candid about the game's future: they stated that the founding idea of Urban Tale was completed with version 1.0, that they expected only bug and performance updates going forward, and that any additional features (such as multiplayer) were speculative and uncertain. This was reinforced by a detailed open letter published on December 16, 2022, in which the developer explained the difficult development history of the game and acknowledged that the update rate had slowed to essentially nothing. They explicitly wrote that Urban Tale "was a complete bust for us in a lot of ways, not just economically," and attributed the slowdown directly to that. The open letter made clear the team had moved its focus to other projects (Rising Mist, Doggo Estates, and Plague: London 1665). Since the 1.0 launch, the only Urban Tale-specific updates have been a feature patch in May 2023 (minor gameplay improvements and bug fixes) and an annual Christmas seasonal event in December 2025 — a lightweight recurring event, not a content expansion. The three news posts tagged as major content since launch are actually two announcements for the developer's separate game Plague: London 1665, and the 2025 Christmas event for Urban Tale itself. The developer has not announced any future content for Urban Tale, has no unreleased DLC listed, and explicitly communicated at launch that the game's core concept was complete. The Christmas event in December 2025 shows the developer still engages minimally with the game, but this is a recurring cosmetic event rather than a sign of ongoing content development. The game is complete as shipped.
Evidence
Open letter from developer acknowledges Urban Tale 'was a complete bust' economically, explains the update rate has slowed to essentially nothing, and confirms focus has shifted to new in-house projects.
news post · Dec 16, 2022 source development ending
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Full Release 1.0.0 announcement states: 'the founding idea of Urban Tale is completed with this update.' Developer notes only bug/performance updates are likely, and any new features like multiplayer are speculative.
news post · Oct 7, 2021 source development ending
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
WASD Games
Achievements
20
Platform
Windows, macOS
Controller
partial support
Steam Deck
Not rated
Players
Single-player

About this game

Urban Tale finaly reaches Full Release

After:
- 675 days,
- 33 game updates,
- 306 of added MB,
- and countless bugs fixes
we made it to version 1.0.0. and a Full Release of Urban Tale!

Thank you very much!

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Urban Tale is a realistic, vibrant and unique RPG that will allow you to fulfil your dreams, and pursue your most wanted goals in life.

You start from scratch, having nothing in the big city where you can meet a lot of people, that can help you throughout your adventure. Your goal is to survive and succeed in life. Will you be able to make it?

Crafting, Cooking, Planting and Harvesting - City Style

Experience Crafting and Cooking, even Planting and Harvesting Vegetables in the City.
Try selling your Crafted or Cooked items at the Farmers market every Sunday or Open your Own Shop.


You can be whoever you want, try to simulate your own life, or try being somebody totally different. Can spend your life working as an employee, when you get enough experience and knowledge, you also become manager or even business owner and run companies, people working in it and your own life, all at the same time.

Sick of conventional Jobs?

If working a Job is not what you intend to do, no problem, you can pursue several different occupations like making the City a better place and collecting the trash and selling it or if you like living on the edge, try yourself as a pick pocketing thief at Nights. Or try any other of several different un-conventional occupations in the City.

Find Love

Alot of Different People live in Urban Tale you can try to get to know them all and hopefully sooner or later you will meet the right person in the City and form a meaningful relationship with him or her and get married.

Experience the city world like never before, walk around Ljubljana, live your everyday life while trying to have fun.

A DIFFERENT CITY PERSPECTIVE

You are able do 7 different Jobs (Professional Criminal Career, Bartender, Grocery Store Career, Banker, Florist, Postman or working as Travel Agent at the airport), besides everyday Jobs you can Experience the City life also by doing unconventional Jobs like, Crafting your own items and selling them in your own shop, cooking different items and trying to sell them every Sunday at the Farmer's Marker, Planting and Harvesting in your apartment, collecting Trash in the City and Selling, Robbing People at night or just Completing different Quest for Random People Around the City.

NEXT LEVEL OF REALISTIC WORLD

You will be able to go all around the city and acquaintance different things. As time goes, you will be able to experience season change, from cold winters to warm summers, leaves falling off the trees and snow falling from the sky.

EVOLVE YOUR GAMEPLAY

Playing as somebody else is not fun unless you can change your personalities. Game allows you to play as different characters, and change the way you look and play. Choosing different careers and Occupationsyou will give you freedom to find which character fits which career the best.

A NEW TAKE ON DESIGN

Beautiful pixel art will leave you mesmerised and make the life in the city even more interesting, joyful and fun. We wanted the game to be colourful, yet real-world realistic, having best of both worlds.

TALK TO PEOPLE AROUND THE CITY

At all times you can talk to people, around the city, in the grocery shop, post office, and wherever you go. You can get all the necessary information, whether is it related to job interview, or you are just wanting to make friends.
By talking to people you can get to know them and by getting to know them you might like them and if you find a special person you like, well you can try to make the first step towards them and hopefully after some time, this special person will become your spouse - or not, we don't know what Story you will write, but the possibilities are there.
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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