Urbo is a puzzle game with a unique experience, just enough depth/variety and it doesn’t overstay its welcome. The concept is very simple where you need to merge buildings to make them bigger. The buildings can go up to level 8 in size. You get buildings randomly in order to fill a location as neatly as possible. When you create enough combos, you can also level up to use one special card to change the outcome dramatically sometimes. Like you can freely move a building to an empty spot, make it level up, make a building absorb a group of buildings to free up space etc. The game also has around 5-6 locations with their own gimmicks to keep things interesting. You can continue playing to chase the highest scores until the entire area is filled and you can’t merge buildings anymore. But the game also has goals and progress to keep track of such as reaching 10k score in a certain location in order to unlock a new location and new building types, the last one is purely in terms of visuals.

The controls are excellent with the mouse, you can leave and your progress is saved at any time, the graphics are beautiful, the music is calming, I love that there is just enough depth and yet things are kept simple, the achievements/in-game progression is perfect in terms of balance and most of all, the game succeeds at putting the player in a zen like state. I believe this was the intention and the developers delivered. It hypnotised me, it came at the perfect time when I was getting stressed out and needed a game to calm down with. The only flaw I can think of are the game mechanics feeling old after playing the game for too long. But that’s because I kept playing to get higher scores after reaching all the goals for each location. The game is intentionally designed to keep you busy for a while, not a long time. I support this btw, not all games need to be long.

If things weren’t clear by now, then let me spell it out. I adore Urbo, it’s a wonderful game that is highly polished. The developers had a plan in mind when creating this game and they executed that plan perfectly. It’s a great game to calm a player with just enough depth while keeping things simple. The game can be played for a long time to chase high scores but I had enough after 10.5 hours, this time includes getting all the achievements. The price of €6 is absolutely worth it, I’m very happy I got the game through a bundle. I highly recommend the game if you’re looking for the next puzzle game without expecting it to keep you interested for a long time.

A fun game to play for a few hours... until I discovered "the cards". From then on, it became almost addictive, with hours and hours spent playing it. If you need to give your brain a rest, this is one of the best games. Beautiful, relaxing graphics, and the music is soft and not too heavy. Kudos to the developers.

Building on the previously released single-level demo, the game offers the same simplistic puzzle gameplay, just with more levels and environmental variation.

5.1/10