Gunplay you can read
Every miss has a reason: stance, sway, cover, suppression. Rounds pass through bodies, hits stagger, and a gunshot is heard streets away. Combat is rare, short and usually a mistake.
Cordon net // quarantine zone 06
Perimeter breached
Civilian population unknown
Active factions 4
>> “If you can hear this, stay off the main roads.”
Urban Decay
One quarantined city. Four factions. The infected. You just live here.
Windows 10/11 · 64-bit · free · early access · about 70 MB
0 in your light0 hunting you0 put down
Move to aim the flashlight · click to fire · noise carries
4.2km² of city
6districts
4factions at war
33guns, 13 types
210lore documents
41story scenes
What it is
Slow by intent.
Lethal when it isn’t.
Survival that pushes back
Hunger, thirst and injuries you treat by hand. Searching takes time and makes noise. Loot is scarce, doors lock, lights draw attention, and the rain washes the blood away.
A city that lives without you
Squads march, fight, loot and regroup across the map whether you watch or not. Factions take streets and paint them. Hordes build from noise and roll through districts.
Deploy
Every run, a new city.
A new game builds a whole city from a seed. Roll one and read the districts. This is a sketch; the game builds the real thing, street by street.
ArterialCampHarbour
District dossier
Greenridge
Suburbs
Where you wake up. Residential loot, sparse infected, dead streetlamps over long quiet closes.
Ambient light
Who holds the street
Read the walls.
Every faction marks its ground. The marks move when the street changes hands, so a wall tells you whether to walk down it.
Military remnant
Cordon
Hold the Ground Zero perimeter. Disciplined squads, the best gear, and no patience.
Organised gang
The Kings
Run the rackets in the Yards and the Port. They expand, they extort, they mark what is theirs.
Scavenger bands
Scavs
Everywhere, opportunistic, weak alone and dangerous in numbers. They take what you leave.
Infection cult
Children of the Bloom
They worship the infected and leave the dead on display. Nobody can tell you what they want.
Neutral
Traders
The economy. Old Town and the roads between. They trade with anyone and hunt whoever robs them.
The infected
Know what’s coming.
Four kinds, weighted by how dangerous the district is. None of them show a health bar. They just bleed.
Walker
Shambles on a lurch curve, slower than your walk. Dormant indoors by day, on the streets at night. Its bite rears back first: read it and step aside.
Runner
Twitches, then sprints. Outpaces a walking survivor, so you hear it before you see it.
Brute
230 health. Shrugs off knockback, and one bite takes a quarter of yours.
Screamer
Swells and calls the horde from a block away. Kill it first or not at all.
Scavenge
Searching takes time.
Loot depends on the building, the room and the district. A careful search is slow and quiet. A quick one is fast, until something crashes to the floor.
Container
Kitchen cabinet
Greenridge · house
Noise
Nothing searched yet.
Your bag
Hover an item to read it. Drag items to rearrange your bag.
A way out
There is a boat.
A derelict workboat sits at a Port pier. Twelve kinds of part, scattered across the worst of the city, and a key in a harbour lockbox. Every repair makes noise. Drag the parts onto the boat, or click them.
Repairs 0 / 12
Derelict. Nothing works.
Field report · v0.0.42 · 18 Sept 2026
The Waterfront
The Port meets the sea, and for the first time there is a way out of the city. The launcher installs every update by itself.
- NewA way to win: a derelict workboat is moored at a Port pier. Find twelve kinds of part (23 in all) and two tools in the Port, the Industrial Yards and Ground Zero, or buy them from settlement traders. The ignition key waits in a harbour lockbox.
- NewSettlers tell you about the boat and it goes on your map. Every part takes time to fit and makes noise, starting the engine pulls the infected in, and casting off ends the run with an ending screen.
- NewHarbour water along the coast, with a quay, timber jetties, concrete wharves, pontoons, moored boats and wrecks.
- NewRooms that are really lit: fixture lights cast shadows and fall off properly, with cool strip lights and warm pendants.
- NewYour flashlight lands on walls and bounces back. Flashlights and light switches click.
Saves from 0.0.41 cannot be loaded. Start a new run.
All patch notesGet the game
Four steps in.
- Download the launcher: one zip, about 70 MB.
- Unzip it anywhere and run
UrbanDecayLauncher.exe. If Windows SmartScreen stops it, choose “More info”, then “Run anyway”. - Create a free account in the launcher: a username and a password. No email, no store account.
- Install from the launcher. It downloads the game and keeps it up to date from then on.
- System
- Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
- Disk
- About 300 MB installed
- Price
- Free
- Build
- v0.0.42, 18 Sept 2026 · patch notes
- State
- Early access: new builds land often, and things break
- Mode
- Single-player; permadeath or manual saves
- Online
- An account for updates and the leaderboard. What it stores
A Ventura Games Studio game. Every sprite is generated in code and every sound is synthesised; built in Summer Engine on Godot, programmed with Claude. From the people behind The Post Modern Truth.