
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.
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City Ruler, not City Builder: Urban Empire offers a unique combination of classic city building and political management gameplay. Take on the role of a mayor, be a political mastermind and prove your skills by prevailing against opposing parties and guiding your city through technological evolutions and ideological revolutions.
Choose from 4 ruling families with 5 characters each, like the equal rights and social justice advocates the Kilgannons, or the Sant’Elias, who focus on scientific progress and the pursuit of knowledge.
Create and manage city districts on a large scale and fulfil your citizens’ needs – such as happiness, safety, and public services.
Introduce new ideas and technologies, like the electric tram, antibiotics or video games and use your power to convince the city council of your political agenda.
Up to 1000 dynamic events represent the twists and turns of urban life: make and influence decisions on issues such as women’s rights, the hippie movement, and child labor.Genres
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Languages: English*, French*, German*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese**languages with full audio support
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Auf keinen Fall kaufen !!!
eu gosto, nao entendi a reclamação
wenn das spiel mal startet sagt es einem nicht wa man tun soll um es spielen zu können. Egal was ich mache nach einer halben stunde kommt eine anzeige: So sollten sie das spiel nicht spielen sie wurden abgewählt. Aber von wem was kann ich dagegen tun?
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 can get it to start at all, had to run as admin on the launcher and it pops up twice before the game loads
zu unlogisch, zu fummelig,
I think this game deserves more credit then it received, honestly its fun. Could it be better? Yeah. For what it is though, its a thumbs up from me.
Game is crushes at start. Who had same problem and fixed this?
Is this game bad? Maybe. But I'm not sure? I mean, I think it's a perfectly 6/10 city builder from 2017. Why such opprobrium from the internet? People thought kalypso (the Tropico people) were going to make the most serious hardcore citybuilder sim of alltime? I don't know. It does what it say on the box. Moderate city building interspersed with a bunch of political flavor. It's fun for what it is. It's not a world-beater, it's not infinitely replayable, but you can easily get a decent 25 hours here and it's on sale for $3 now.
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