MicroProse and White Pond Games are pleased to announce that Urban Strife will officially leave Early Access and launch its full 1.0 release on Steam on July 14, 2026.
To mark the announcement, a new teaser trailer has been released, offering a glimpse of the challenges awaiting players as the campaign reaches its climactic conclusion.
Since entering Early Access, Urban Strife has steadily expanded through major content updates, new story episodes, gameplay systems, tactical improvements, and extensive community feedback. The upcoming 1.0 release will deliver the complete campaign experience, including the long-awaited final act: the arrival of the Atlanta Horde and the desperate siege that will determine the fate of Urban Shelter.
Set in a devastated corner of the American South, Urban Strife combines old-school turn-based tactics, deep survival mechanics, shelter management, faction politics, and RPG storytelling. Players must build a militia, manage scarce resources, forge uneasy alliances, and survive against both the living and the dead.
Most recently, the game received its final story chapter, The Fall of the King, allowing players to explore the fallen kingdom of Urban High School and confront its ambitious ruler, Principal King Brown, as the road toward the endgame draws ever closer.
Key Features
• Complete Story-Driven Campaign
Experience a branching post-apocalyptic RPG campaign spanning dozens of handcrafted locations, memorable characters, faction conflicts, and difficult choices.
• Deep Turn-Based Tactical Combat
Inspired by classic genre legends, Urban Strife features action point-based combat, overwatch mechanics, interrupts, body-part targeting, stealth systems, and meaningful tactical positioning.
• Realistic Ballistics & Environmental Combat
Weapons feature simulated ballistics, penetration, ammunition management, armor interactions, fire propagation, and environmental hazards that can dramatically alter the battlefield.
• Build and Manage a Survivor Community
Transform a struggling refugee camp into a thriving settlement. Construct upgrades, manage production, assign workers, recruit specialists, and prepare your defenses.
• Dynamic Survival Systems
Balance food, health, morale, fuel, materials, injuries, diseases, and the growing needs of your population while facing constant external threats.
• Faction Politics & Alliances
Negotiate, trade, fight, or ally with powerful survivor factions including National Guard remnants, cultists, biker gangs, and other groups struggling for control of the region.
• Recruit and Develop Unique Survivors
Build your militia from a diverse roster of characters, each with distinct backgrounds, perks, relationships, and combat specialties.
• Massive Zombie Encounters
Face large undead hordes supported by Urban Strife’s unique simultaneous zombie movement system, designed to keep large-scale encounters fast, tense, and unpredictable.
• Shelter Upgrades, Vehicles & Endgame Progression
Unlock advanced facilities, powerful faction rewards, unique vehicles, and strategic upgrades that will determine your chances of surviving the final siege.
• Rich World Simulation
Explore a living world populated by NPCs pursuing their own goals, loyalties, and rivalries as society collapses around them.
Urban Strife launches in version 1.0 on Steam on July 14, 2026.
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Contact Information
For press inquiries, please contact:
Davide Pessach
PR Marketing Manager
davide.pessach@microprose.com
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About MicroProse
Founded in 1982, MicroProse is a world-renowned publisher of simulation and strategy games, known for classics like B-17, Ground Branch, Highfleet and many more! Today, MicroProse blends the legacy of its groundbreaking titles with cutting-edge innovation to create unforgettable gaming experiences.
About White Pond Games
We are a small indie gamedev studio based in Bucharest, Romania, but we dare to dream big. White Pond Games is founded by ex-Ubisoft game devs with a work portfolio of popular titles, such as Assassin’s Creed series, Tom Clancy’s games (Ghost Recon: Wildlands, Endwar, etc.), I Am Alive, ZombieU, etc.