Urban Venture, the simulation game that proposes us to be taxi drivers in Barcelona

If you have ever dreamed of being a taxi driver in a city like Barcelona, ​​with sea and mountains at each end of the city, then Urban Venture is the game you need. Of course, it is better to leave at home what you have learned in crazytaxi or Grand Theft Auto to drive here, since collisions and hit-and-runs are not welcome. The objective of siminteract (Train Life: A Railway Simulator), those responsible for the work, is that the players feel in their flesh how alive a city can be as far as circulation is concerned.

For this reason, we will witness traffic jams, variations in the weather, we will see crowded roads, we will have to watch out for potholes, we will deal with impatient passengers, and we will even have to deal with occasional accidents. A very faithful simulation what any real driver can find today on the roadbeing in this case the city of Barcelona the chosen scenario to be able to experience that chaos that hangs over the asphalt at peak hours.

A taxi driver with many possibilities

The game is currently in development and Simteract has worked hard to make a faithful adaptation of Barcelona through the use of advanced scanning technology. In addition to having incorporated a complex traffic simulation artificial intelligence system. Urban Venture it is a sandbox in which we choose how to play. We are given the option to become taxi drivers and make routes to earn money and experience. Or we can create our own “empire” once we already have what that trade is in hand so that others can bring us the money home. We will have to create our strategy plan to beat the competition.

And of course, we will have at our disposal a mode free drive with which we can wander the streets as we please, exploring the city and collecting items without any hurry or pressure from customers who need to reach their destinations quickly. Urban Venture get to Steam in early access in late 2022 or early 2023Still no exact date.