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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.

172
games
40
platforms

Alternate name: Modern fantasy

Ghostbusters II (Nintendo Entertainment System)
Ghostbusters II
NES 1990-04
Dreamweb (Amiga AGA)
Dreamweb
AGA 1994
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PlayStation Portable)
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
PSP 2012-05-17
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment (PlayStation)
Persona 2: Eternal Punishment
PS1 2000-06-29
EarthBound (Super Nintendo)
EarthBound
SNES 1995-02
Fahrenheit (Xbox)
Fahrenheit
XBOX 2005-09-20
Mother 1+2 (Game Boy Advance)
Mother 1+2
GBA 2003-06-20
Arcana Heart 3 (PlayStation 3)
Arcana Heart 3
PS3 2011-01
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona (PlayStation Portable)
Shin Megami Tensei: Persona
PSP 2009-04-29
Metro: Last Light (PlayStation 3)
Metro: Last Light
PS3 2013-05
F.E.A.R. 3 (Xbox 360)
F.E.A.R. 3
X360 2011-06-24
DmC Devil May Cry (Windows)
DmC Devil May Cry
WIN 2013-01-25
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).

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Games by year

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The first Urban fantasy video game was released in 1984.

Activision, Konami and Nintendo published most of these games.

Related sites

TV Tropes article
Wikipedia article

Platforms

Windows 32
X360 15
PS2 13
Linux 11
PS3 10
Nintendo DS 9
Arcade 8
NES 7
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
GB 2
Master System 2
Xbox 2
Atari 2600 2
Atari ST 2
Wii 2
MSX 1
Neo-Geo 1
GBC 1
SNES 1
GameCube 1
iOS 1

Most common companies

Activision20
Konami15
Nintendo13
Atlus11
Deep Silver9
Vivendi Universal7
Vivendi6
Atari6
Type-Moon5
Examu4
Warner Bros. Interactive4
Sega4
BeautiFun Games3
Capcom3
WB Games3