City Ville

City Ville is a flash-based city builder sim game, similar to Sim City, by Zynga Inc., available through Facebook and Google+. You act as mayor of your own city, with the goal to grow and expand your town with the help of your friends. Build houses to increase the population, erect civic buildings to expand your population cap, and grow crops and run factories to obtain goods to fuel your businesses. Like many time-management Facebook games, the player consumes energy for every action in the game. City Cash is used to buy premium items, bypass quests and requirements, and gain bonuses.

The game features many characters living in the city with their own stories and questlines. Your main guide, Samantha, is the neighboring mayor from the next town over who often gives you advice and suggestions (usually in the form of erecting more structures) for your growing town.

As of 2011, City Ville is known to be the biggest game on Facebook with 84.2 million active users. Like its sister game, Farmville, it can get rather spammy due to the many different unique items, often not useable in other structures, the player has to request from their friends in order to complete goals.

Tropes of the game include:

 * A Little Help From My Friends: You can't get anywhere in the game without this unless you...
 * ...Bribe your way to the top like a true politician. With real money, of course.
 * Bizarrchitecture
 * City of Everywhere: The Swiss Museum, British Palace, and Grand Canyon- all in one convenient location!
 * Double Entendre: While less in number and lighter in implication than Castle Ville and its more notorious sister, Frontier Ville, they exist.
 * Melting Pot: Monsters included.
 * Where the Hell Is Springfield?: Cityville's truckers are perfectly capable of driving to Atlanta and Frankfurt in the same day.

Character tropes include:

 * Art Evolution: The most notable example is Samantha, who goes from a hydrocephalic middle-aged woman in the game's infancy to a slightly more proportionate character with rather notable assets.
 * Big Bad / Crossover: Captain Krunsch from Empires and Allies
 * The Cameo: Michael Buble and Enrique Iglesias (Twice, even.) so far.
 * Funny Foreigner: Chef Andre
 * Out-of-Character Moment: Quite a few of these appear in the quest art, which makes you wonder why some pretty random characters are hanging out together, doing seemingly random things around town. Then again, most Cityville characters are Flat Characters.