Urban Ascend is an incremental city builder where every structure you place pushes your metropolis one step higher.

Grow your economy, expand your infrastructure, and unlock new buildings automatically as your city develops. Turn a small town into a thriving modern metropolis powered by constant production and steady progression. Urban Ascend features almost 100 buildings, a streamlined Research system for upgrades, and more than 50 dynamic incidents that shape each run.

Build a City That Never Stops Growing

Every building has purpose and impact. Place power plants to fuel expansion, farms to support your population, factories to drive industry, civic structures to boost quality of life, transportation hubs to multiply gold generation, and residential towers to grow income. Your choices define how your city evolves.

Care for Your Citizens to Unlock Big Bonuses

Citizens have four core needs: happiness, safety, knowledge, and governance. Keep these needs met with parks, police and fire services, schools, and efficient public offices. Satisfied citizens unlock powerful production boosts that scale across your entire city.

Expand Through Constant Production

Resources flow every tick. Power and water keep everything running. Farms and factories generate goods. Commercial, civic, transportation, and residential buildings produce the gold that fuels expansion. As you climb into higher tiers, your output accelerates, turning steady progress into explosive growth.

Keep Your City Running Smoothly

Incidents appear as your city grows, from equipment failures and weather disruptions to market shifts and temporary efficiency drops. These events are manageable rather than punishing, adding strategy and making your city feel alive.

Build for Resilience

Well-planned infrastructure reduces negative incidents and increases the chance of positive ones like production surges or efficiency boosts. Your city becomes stronger the smarter you build.

Dynamic Gameplay

With 50+ incidents tied to utilities, agriculture, industry, transportation, and civic services, no two playthroughs are identical. Your building choices shape the challenges and bonuses you encounter.

Upgrade Through the New Research System

Upgrade your city through a clean, intuitive Research menu. Strengthen production, improve gold generation, and enhance building efficiency. Upgrades appear only for structures you’ve unlocked, keeping the interface focused and easy to manage.

Plan a City With Real Impact

Choose which sectors to strengthen first. Stabilize utilities, ramp up gold production, or prioritize citizen needs. Urban Ascend rewards thoughtful planning and gives you the freedom to shape your city’s identity.

Grow From a Quiet Town to a Modern Metropolis

Start small and rise toward advanced energy grids, major industrial complexes, sprawling transportation networks, and towering residential districts. Watch your city transform as every system clicks into place.

Urban Ascend delivers the satisfying climb of an incremental game with the creativity and freedom of a city builder. Build, upgrade, and rise. Your metropolis awaits.

Updated 20 hours ago
Published 23 days ago
StatusReleased
PlatformsHTML5
AuthorBitQuest Studio
GenreStrategy
Made withRPG Maker
TagsCity Builder, Clicker, Incremental, Point & Click, RPG Maker, RPG Maker MZ

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I briefly tried it out after finding out about it while scrolling Reddit; the long waiting time between ticks turned me away.

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I've updated the demo to significantly reduce tick times!