URBO

URBO

Released Sep 2023

URBO is a relaxing cozy city-building puzzle game where you create beautiful towns on floating islands. Begin with an empty grid of landscape, choose an architectural style and build. Watch the population grow and the city flourish.

92% positive · 660 reviews
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence
Done
All announced content has been released
Medium confidence

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Evaluation

URBO launched on Steam on September 13, 2023. After release, the developer shipped one meaningful post-launch update: a major content drop on March 20, 2024 that added two new game modes (Sessional Mode and Puzzle Mode) along with Steam Trading Cards. This update had been announced in December 2023 and was the developer's stated focus for the months following launch. Since that March 20, 2024 update, there have been no further developer communications, announcements, or content releases. The developer has not announced any additional DLC, expansions, or future updates. There are no unreleased DLC entries on the store. The game has only two post-launch content milestones and no established rhythm of ongoing releases that would suggest more is on the way. With no outstanding commitments and silence stretching back to March 20, 2024, the game appears to have reached its completed state with that final update. It launched as a self-contained puzzle game and has been treated as such — the developer also released a separate companion title (URBO: Dream One) in August 2023, which is a distinct product rather than DLC for URBO itself.
Evidence
Major update shipped adding Sessional Mode and Puzzle Mode, plus Steam Trading Cards. This is the most recent developer communication and the last known content addition to the game.
news post · Mar 20, 2024 source content shipped
high
URBO launched on Steam on September 13, 2023.
news post · Sep 13, 2023 source content shipped
high

Media

Details

Developer
Publisher
Door 407
Achievements
29
Platform
Windows
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Verified
Players
Single-player

About this game

URBO is a relaxing cozy city-building puzzle game where you create beautiful towns on floating islands. Place buildings, grow your population, and watch peaceful landscapes come to life.

URBO 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!

Last evaluated Jun 21, 2026
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