Review

CityVille Hometown is not a way to access CityVille on Facebook. It is a completely independent game exclusively created for iOS. Zynga have learnt from the failings of FarmVille for iOS and created something which is very well optimised for the iPad.

In this game you build a city; building houses to increase your population, building businesses to earn money, and growing crops to supply your businesses with the ‘goods’ they need to run. Over time, you can expand the borders of your city and build new and interesting buildings.

Typically, Zynga games are heavily dependent on making in-app purchases. This is not true for CityVille Hometown, which is great news. Also, CityVille Hometown is not dependent on having dozens of friends who also play the game to progress. Combine these factors with the perfect pace of player development and you have an admirable, iOS optimised game, suitable for the casual and hardcore gamer alike.

Zynga definitely excelled with this app. A very satisfying and rewarding game, which is adaptable for all play styles. What Zynga realised with CityVille Hometown is that people interact with games on Facebook and games on mobile devices in entirely different ways and CityVille Hometown truly excels in captivating the iOS audience.

It can be difficult to find neighbours for this game however, this is because the game uses facebook to find friends. If you don’t have friends on facebook playing this game… you can’t have neighbours! What I recommend if you’re struggling is to create a Facebook list with custom privacy settings and add some willing people to that list so you can add them in CityVille Hometown. If you stop playing the game, you can then just delete the people on that list and not have to worry about privacy. Feel free to use the comments below to organise this!


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About the Author

James
A recent Bioveterinary graduate from the University of Liverpool with a passion for writing. I am the author of VetSci and also write for a number of other blogs such as iPad.appstorm and PetSci. Feel free to get in touch.