I absolutely hate social games. They are nearly pointless. They are more repetitive than an MMORPG. They lack depth. Their social element is not really all that social. And yet, I continue to play them. Granted, they only keep my attention for about a month. The past month Cityville has been getting my attention.

Cityville is by Zynga. Zynga is probably the Google of social games. They take a preexisting product and remake it to usually a more functional and fun game. This is the case with Cityville.

Cityville tasks you with building a city. You must build businesses, houses, decorations, franchises, community buildings, and more. The game goals are very similar to other Zynga games like Frontierville; build this, harvest that, decorate those, etc. However, so far the game is much more balanced than previous games based on the same goal system. You don't need a million friends which is good. I am sorry, I am not adding strangers to my friend list just so I can get further in a game.

But alas, I was bored pretty quick. It actually did pretty well considering. The only other game that got more of my attention was Farmville and that is only because that was my first social game and I was new so it didn't feel repetitive at first.

If you are looking to pass a few minutes everyday than I believe that Cityville will allow you to do that for around a month. It is definitely worth trying out.