We are proud to announce that the official forum of Cities XL 2011 opens its doors today!

Preceding the upcoming Official Website of Cities XL 2011, this forum will let you talk together of Cities XL 2011, share your experience on Cities XL, and exchange about everything in relation with this City Builder!

Join the Cities XL community now on the official forum! 

With this press release, we'd like to inform you that Focus Home Interactive acquired Cities XL and the current developments of the game.

This fall, Focus will launch Cities XL 2011, an enriched version which will meet all the expectations of City Builder's fans.

"It's important not to leave Cities XL without a future, declares Cedric Lagarrigue, CEO of Focus Home Interactive. Though the game may not have reached the ambitious objectives set forth by Monte Cristo, it has been successful in Europe and via online platforms. There's a community that's developed around the game, hopes and expectations that we cannot leave without a future. We are convinced that the game must make its mark and become a reference as promised during the pre-release announcements of the original 2009 game. We will therefore release Cities XL 2011 in October and will do so with the intent to please those who bought the earlier version. Moreover, we are working on a special offer for the game's release which we will soon reveal. As for the other City Builder and management game fans, Cities XL 2011's content, options, and features should give them great satisfaction."

- See the first images of Cities XL 2011


About Cities XL 2011:

With Cities XL 2011, build and develop gigantic cities on realistic 3D maps, thanks to an incredible collection counting more than 700 buildings and unique structures. You are the virtual mayor and as such, you will need to find the right balance between economic development for your city, public transportation, housing, social services, leisure activities and even special events in town. Realism has been pushed a little bit deeper with larger cities, more realistic and more sophisticated than ever before!


Widen your horizon!

Cities XL 2011 pushes its limits further: hundreds of new buildings and structures appear for a total of more than 700 constructions, leading the way for new building and combinations options never seen before in a City Builder. Many new maps are also available, for a total of 45 buildable maps. City management will offer the full experience thanks to the addition of public transportation (subway, bus) which will decongest downtown traffic while lowering pollution levels and increasing the population's satisfaction. A more elaborated tax system will let all apprentice mayors adjust personal and local business taxes. A new commercial user interface will permit trade between cities in single player mode if a player decides to develop several cities.

Thanks to these big novelties and to a lot of inspired improvements, Cities XL 2011 truly reaches a whole new dimension to please all City Builders’ fans!

If you have just installed (or re-installed) Cities XL you will need to download the latest update before starting the game for the first time. This update includes (among many other things) the Bus. It is a manual update that you can download from one of the following sites:

>> www.Fileplanet.com
>> www.JeuxVideo.com
>> www.Clubic.com
>> www.Citiesxl.com

Once you have downloaded the patch double-click on it to install it and then simply restart the game.

Happy construction!

Update content:

• Buses (see our Bus Guide)

• New buildings (Ford car shop, high school, farm, The Hague town hall.)

• Vehicles (new Ford cars)

• Addition of night lights (street lampposts, car headlights, and numerous house lights)

• Various interface enhancements
• And many other enhancements and optimizations…

Dear Mayors,

As announced, after a great run of 6 months, the Planet Offer came to an end today monday ,march 8th 2010, at 11:25 am (GMT+1). But the Cities XL adventure goes on with the Solo game!

To celebrate this, the Bus is coming for free in the Solo game! You may now access more advanced urban planning options and enjoy the delights of mass transit during the rush hour!

You can now connect to the game and download the latest patch to get the Bus. If you have bought (or reinstalled) Cities XL recently a special patch is available for you that will enable you to get all the updates released so far at once, on top of the Bus. Please note that starting tomorrow (Tuesday march 9) the patch will still be available through the game’s launcher but you will have to install it manually.

If you have played online you may be sad to not have your Planet cities available in the Solo game.. All is not lost! Some players went out of their ways and found how to convert some Planet cities into Solo cities. On top of that the process isn’t too complicated. To learn more read our article.

Once more we want to thank you for your great support and for participating so actively in the Planet Offer since Cities XL’s release in last October.

Come back on our site soon for more information regarding the new upcoming Solo contents and the new version of the game; which Monte Cristo is already working on...

Stay tuned!

- The Monte Cristo team

If you have played online and are now coming back to the Solo game you may miss your Planet cities... All is not lost! Some players in our community are full of resources... Read on to learn more.

Some people (with an account created these last 5 days) are currently having difficulties connecting to the game with specific Steam-based versions. Here is a new manual patch to fix that problem :

Patch 1.0.1.457-B4.exe

Once the patch is downloaded double click on it to install it.

Note : A previous patch had been published last Friday but it wouldn’t install properly on Steam-based Cities XL versions. Please use today’s latest patch instead.