
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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Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
10 of 15 markets; the rest we haven't asked for this title, not markets where it is unavailable.
Discounts
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 0/day in the week to Sep 1 → 0/day in the week after.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
About

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.Updates
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
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Reviews
Themes across 41 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Reviews
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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Game is crushes at start. Who had same problem and fixed this?
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Languages: English*, French*, German*, Russian*, Simplified Chinese**languages with full audio support
Hours played at review time, across 41 reviews with recorded playtime.
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Das ist ja wirklich öde. Wahnsinn Zum Glück nur 1,60€ bezahlt
加载时间太长了啊
not a great game. boring
Zum Einstieg mir persönlich viel zu kompliziert. Politiksimulator würde ich es nicht nennen. Es hat strategische und simulatorische Elemente.... Das Spiel wirkt sehr, sehr unbalanced. Egal welchen Weg man einschlägt, es ist unmöglich auf einem grünem Zweig zu bleiben. Für mich definitiv ein Fehlkauf.
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Bon jeu de gestion, assez original avec le mélange entre politique et construction de ville.
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