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Urban fantasy

Fiction genre theme

A fantasy sub-genre which focuses on the setting being primarily or solely a city (urban), though often implied to be modern or futuristic such.

169
games
40
platforms

Alternate name: Modern fantasy

Silent Hill (PlayStation)
Silent Hill
PS1 1999-01-31
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2 (Nintendo DS)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor 2
NDS 2011-07-28
Ghostbusters (MS-DOS)
Ghostbusters
DOS 1986
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin (Xbox 360)
F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin
X360 2009-02-10
Eternal Darkness : Sanity's Requiem (GameCube)
Eternal Darkness : Sanity's Requiem
GC 2002-06-24
Silent Hill 2 (PlayStation 2)
Silent Hill 2
PS2 2001-09-25
Extreme Ghostbusters (Game Boy Color)
Extreme Ghostbusters
GBC 2001-04
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor (Nintendo DS)
Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Survivor
NDS 2009-06-23
Ghostbusters II (Amiga OCS)
Ghostbusters II
OCS 1990
DmC Devil May Cry (Windows)
DmC Devil May Cry
WIN 2013-01-25
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Digital Devil Story: Megami Tensei II
NES 1990-04-06
METRO 2033 (Windows)
METRO 2033
WIN 2010-03-16

The first video game about Urban fantasy was released in 1984.

Activision, Konami and Nintendo has published most of these games

Generally this means all or vast majority of the game is spent in a city with any visits outside of the city are short-lived nor frequent. So even if it's modern times, but set in the boonies or most of the time in them, then it's not urban fantasy.

This includes historical periods too that are limited within a city, though such are not generally popular in fiction (nor games).

Related sites

TV Tropes article
Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows 31
X360 15
PS2 13
Linux 11
PS3 10
Nintendo DS 9
NES 7
Arcade 6
PSP 6
3DS 5
GBA 5
PS 5
Amstrad CPC 3
Mac OS X 3
ZX Spectrum 3
Amiga 3
C64 3
MS-DOS 3
Wii 2
GB 2
Master System 2
Xbox 2
Atari 2600 2
Atari ST 2
PC-FX 1
MSX 1
Neo-Geo 1
GBC 1
SNES 1
GameCube 1

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