How to play CityVille

A short guide to start building your city. Everything described here works in the browser edition.

First steps

Create an account with a username and a password; email is optional. Then press Play to load the game.

In your first game a tutorial guides you. Follow the arrows and dialogs until you build your first house.

Planting, harvesting and other actions spend energy. Energy recovers over time, so there is no need to wait around: come back later.

Coins are used to buy buildings and decorations. City Cash is the premium currency of the game and is used to speed things up and buy special items.

Open the market from the bottom menu, pick a building and place it on free land. You can rotate it, move it and sell it later.

Houses raise your population, shops give coins and decorations make your city prettier. Connect your buildings with roads.

Buy plots, pick a crop and plant it. Each crop takes a different time to grow and gives coins and experience when harvested.

Harvest on time: if you wait too long, the crop withers and you lose what you invested.

Businesses need goods to open. Goods come from your crops and other buildings.

When a business finishes, collect its coins and supply it again to repeat the cycle.

Quests give you concrete tasks and award coins, experience and sometimes new buildings. They follow an order that teaches you the game.

Gaining experience raises your level. Each level unlocks buildings and more maximum energy.

From My account you can change your password, add an email and see the devices with an open session. Close any session you do not recognize.

If you forget your password, request a reset on the recovery page; the team will give you a code to choose a new one.

Drag the map to move around and use the mouse wheel to zoom in or out. Click a building to see its options.

Sound starts muted. Turn it on with the speaker button in the header whenever you like.

This is a beta: there may be bugs and some features are missing.
There are no real neighbors yet; only City Sam as a test neighbor.
Part of the art and dialogs are not available yet, so some buildings look incomplete.
It is designed for desktop; touch screens have not been tested.