A city-building game for those who love cities! Urbanitas gives you..
- A compendium of over 500 paw-crafted buildings!
- Maps up to over 10,000 tiles large! (*)
- In-depth simulation of your city's economy and your citizens' satisfaction!
- A system of socio-economic progression that brings both challenges and rewards to your developing city!
- Cultural and scientific developments that unlock new potentials in your city!
- Comprehensive data visualization to help you understand your city better!
..so you can build the world-class metropolis of your dreams!
(..and to share with your friends! Just export your city from the system menu and copy the CityExchangeString to a friend!)
Urbanitas is also available as a standalone application via itch.io: https://not-articulated.itch.io/urbanitas. You can also download a game guide from the itch.io page. We recommend reading the guide as you build your first city to get a better understanding of the game.
We started working on this game in late March 2026 and after five months of intense work it is finally ready for release. If you like this game, consider also checking out our previous city-builder works PicoMayor and Urbanity.
(*) The game may perform poorly on larger maps due to the computational load of its exquisite simulation system.
Controls
Mouse required!
You can pan the view by putting the cursor at the edge of the window,
with WASD keys, or with Arrow keys. Hold Shift while panning to move faster.
Right click or press X to cancel current action.
Mouse wheel or press Z to zoom in or out.
Images
Example Cities
Here are two example cities we built in Urbanitas. The first city (Oulu) is used in the Quick Guide available for download on itch.io. The second city (Barranquilla) is much more developed and has most buildings unlocked.
To import these cities, copy the content of one of the hidden blocks below (You can triple click on the text to quickly select all of it), then select "Import a city from clipboard" on the main menu and press Ctrl-V to paste the city. If everything goes correctly, the city should show up on screen.
Credits
Programming, graphics, and audio by the plush girls.
Special thanks to Thelxinoe5 for coming up with a way to remove editor metadata from GFX tiles (which led to a ~10% reduction in compressed cartridge size), and for making Cart Base.
Changelog
1.2 - added commercial oversupply penalty information in Service and Customers data view; clarify related messages; fixed Baseball Diamond cost; fixed some sprites
1.1 - added in-game volume controls; added music control button to the main menu.
1.0 - initial release
This is so cool! Congrats on the release! Still need to learn the game, but messing around with it is already plenty fun. So much depth!
publishing a game to gog is free; but 70/30 cut
might be worth it & if people want to support they could buy on gog (and maybe get soundtrack or something included as a bonus thank you)
Very cool game! Having a lot of fun.
Would be nice if ESC didn’t immediately close the game without asking (muscle memory for closing out of menus). I know some games open the cartridge menu when you hit ESC. That could be nice. Ideally if a menu was open it would close the menu and if not then it would bring up the cartridge menu or ask if you want to save.
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