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Urban Rivals cover art

Urban Rivals

Acute Games · 2017-10-18

Steam

ActionIndieMassively MultiplayerRPGStrategyFree To Play

Modes: Single player, Multiplayer, Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO)

Releases: 2009 (iOS), 2011 (Android), Sep 01, 2017 (Web browser), Oct 18, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Oct 18, 2017 (Mac), Oct 18, 2017 (Linux)

Build your gang from thousands of characters and challenge players from around the world. Collect and trade cards, manage your Pillz and master the art of bluffing in fast-paced battles where every decision can turn the tide.

Urban Rivals is an Action, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, and RPG game released in 2017, priced at free-to-play, with a Mixed review sentiment (67% of 711 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.

28
playing now
67%
positive of 717 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
80/100
IGDB user rating (13 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
Free
steam price (US)

28 players in-game as of 2026-10-14 14:00 UTC (census sample)

Urban Rivals is a massively multi-player online virtual trading card game. The game features over 2,000 characters with varying rarities and abilities to discover, collect and level up by fighting live against players from all over the world. It also has an active market, where players can buy cards from other players or put their own cards up for sale.

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 28 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 36 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~5/week).
  • · Review velocity down 33% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 18% of 27,649 Action games in the census by review count.

12-month high $0.00 · on sale 1 of 1 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
121220182026Week of 2018-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-10-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-11-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-12-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-10-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2019-12-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-11-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-08-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2022-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 11 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-01-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 4 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 7 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

3842026-09-14 23:00 — 23 players2026-09-16 07:00 — 9 players2026-09-17 15:00 — 22 players2026-09-18 22:00 — 20 players2026-09-20 06:00 — 7 players2026-09-21 13:00 — 20 players2026-09-22 21:00 — 24 players2026-09-24 04:00 — 9 players2026-09-25 12:00 — 18 players2026-09-26 19:00 — 20 players2026-09-28 03:00 — 6 players2026-09-29 10:00 — 16 players2026-09-30 18:00 — 30 players2026-10-02 01:00 — 11 players2026-10-03 09:00 — 15 players2026-10-04 17:00 — 38 players2026-10-06 01:00 — 16 players2026-10-07 08:00 — 17 players2026-10-08 16:00 — 29 players2026-10-09 23:00 — 27 players2026-10-11 07:00 — 12 players2026-10-12 14:00 — 31 players2026-10-13 22:00 — 25 players2026-10-14 14:00 — 28 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
6812Oct 2017Aug 2026Oct 2017 — avg 30 · peak 133Jan 2018 — avg 55 · peak 125Apr 2018 — avg 41 · peak 93Jul 2018 — avg 36 · peak 73Oct 2018 — avg 32 · peak 87Jan 2019 — avg 30 · peak 69Apr 2019 — avg 24 · peak 52Jul 2019 — avg 24 · peak 56Oct 2019 — avg 21 · peak 55Jan 2020 — avg 25 · peak 62Apr 2020 — avg 39 · peak 76Jul 2020 — avg 43 · peak 80Oct 2020 — avg 42 · peak 88Jan 2021 — avg 50 · peak 147Apr 2021 — avg 41 · peak 120Jul 2021 — avg 30 · peak 88Oct 2021 — avg 25 · peak 66Jan 2022 — avg 24 · peak 59Apr 2022 — avg 14 · peak 42Jul 2022 — avg 13 · peak 27Oct 2022 — avg 13 · peak 33Jan 2023 — avg 20 · peak 50Apr 2023 — avg 17 · peak 37Jul 2023 — avg 14 · peak 32Oct 2023 — avg 17 · peak 39Jan 2024 — avg 17 · peak 37Apr 2024 — avg 18 · peak 40Jul 2024 — avg 14 · peak 31Oct 2024 — avg 18 · peak 38Jan 2025 — avg 18 · peak 37Apr 2025 — avg 19 · peak 39Jul 2025 — avg 18 · peak 38Oct 2025 — avg 23 · peak 43Jan 2026 — avg 28 · peak 59Apr 2026 — avg 25 · peak 56Jul 2026 — avg 23 · peak 42Aug 2026 — avg 21 · peak 49
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

Attention

2672026-06-02 — 11 pageviews2026-06-06 — 10 pageviews2026-06-10 — 15 pageviews2026-06-14 — 15 pageviews2026-06-18 — 7 pageviews2026-06-22 — 26 pageviews2026-06-26 — 12 pageviews2026-06-30 — 23 pageviews2026-07-04 — 9 pageviews2026-07-08 — 18 pageviews2026-07-12 — 10 pageviews2026-07-16 — 18 pageviews2026-07-20 — 14 pageviews2026-07-24 — 11 pageviews2026-07-28 — 15 pageviews2026-08-01 — 15 pageviews2026-08-05 — 17 pageviews2026-08-09 — 19 pageviews2026-08-13 — 19 pageviews2026-08-17 — 14 pageviews2026-08-21 — 16 pageviews2026-08-25 — 14 pageviews2026-08-29 — 15 pageviews2026-09-02 — 12 pageviews2026-09-06 — 19 pageviews2026-09-10 — 17 pageviews2026-09-14 — 16 pageviews2026-09-18 — 20 pageviews2026-09-22 — 15 pageviews2026-09-26 — 16 pageviews2026-09-30 — 22 pageviews2026-10-04 — 21 pageviews2026-10-08 — 7 pageviews2026-10-11 — 11 pageviews
Daily Wikipedia pageviews (attention proxy, census-recorded).

Completion

16
achievements tracked
25.2%
earned "Finish him!"
4.7%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsmacOSLinuxSingle-playerMulti-playerPvPOnline PvPCross-Platform MultiplayerSteam AchievementsIn-App PurchasesFamily Sharing

7 supported languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Portugal, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3654%16

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

PvPRPGRTSAnimeActionMMORPGTradingFightingCard Game2D Fighter

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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