Urbek City Builder: Prologue

Urbek City Builder: Prologue

Released Mar 2022

Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free city building game where you can build your own neighbourhoods: from nightlife district to industrial district. Don't exhaust your natural resources before you have an educated population to build more efficient structures. Try it yourself for free!

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All announced content has been released
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Where to get it

Free on Steam

Evaluation

Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free-to-play demo/prologue app for the full Urbek City Builder game. It launched on March 10, 2022 and has received updates mirroring the development of the main game — including bug fixes, new achievements, and free content updates that added new buildings (such as a fire station, pharmacy, urban forest, and mental health facilities) alongside paid DLC releases for the full game. The developer has shipped two paid DLC expansions for the main Urbek City Builder game — "Defend the City" (March 3, 2023) and "Trains" (April 24, 2024) — with each accompanied by free content updates to the base experience. The April 24, 2024 post notes the Wellbeing free update and thanks the community for "allowing us to keep working on this game and adding more content," but this appears to be a general expression of gratitude rather than a forward-looking commitment to specific new content. There are no unreleased DLC entries listed for this prologue app, no announced upcoming content, and no developer roadmap pointing to future updates. The most recent developer communication is from April 24, 2024. While the developer has historically added free content updates alongside DLC launches for the main game, no specific future content has been announced for the prologue since that date. The prologue serves as a free sample of the full game, and the development activity has been driven by the main game's update cadence. With roughly 14 months of silence since the last post (as of June 2026), and no outstanding commitments, the prologue appears to have reached a stable, complete state.
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Trains DLC released for the main game; free Wellbeing update added new buildings to the base experience. Developer thanks community for allowing continued work on the game — most recent developer communication.
news post · Apr 24, 2024 source content shipped
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Urbek City Builder: Prologue launched as a free preview of the full game under development.
news post · Mar 10, 2022 source content shipped
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Details

Publisher
RockGame S.A.
Achievements
33
Platform
Windows
Controller
—
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Players
Single-player

About this game

Urbek City Builder: Prologue is a free game where you will be able to build a city of your own design! Manage its natural resources, improve the quality of life of the population, and build its neighbourhoods in your own way.

Neighbourhoods

Breathe life into your city by building different neighbourhoods. Do you want a bohemian neighbourhood? Build bars, parks and libraries, but keep a low population density nearby. Do you want a bourgeois neighbourhood? You need parks and luxury shops.

Manage

There is no money in Urbek. Instead, you will have to build everything with your own resources, such as food, coal, or skilled work. There are more than 30 different resources to manage! Manage your natural resources well, so that they do not run out before they can be replaced. How will you choose to produce the energy for your inhabitants and industries?

Educate

Education is fundamental! By producing enough qualified work and scientific work, you will be able to build more advanced buildings.

Observe

Move around at street level in order to get a more intimate sense of the city you are creating. See and feel the differences between neighborhoods the way your city’s residents do!

Organic growth

The growth of your city will be organic. Some constructions will appear according to the surrounding conditions. For example, buildings with more than two floors will appear in densely populated areas and with basic services.

You can place other buildings by yourself, but they need some conditions. For instance, the local market needs to be close to the farms. The university should have some high schools nearby, which, in turn, require nearby schools.

When it comes to designing your city, you have a variety of viable options. There are no buildings that are superior to others. Every decision will have its pros and cons. Bourgeois houses consume more food and need resources that cost more to produce, but will improve the quality of life of the residents there. On the other hand, improving the productivity of industries will produce more resources, but will diminish the quality of life for residents living in the area.

Last evaluated Jun 22, 2026
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