Your first town starts here.
Follow Learn to Play
The guided tutorial introduces the map and movement, roads, residential zones, power, water, shops, factories and your City Books. Use Back to revisit a step. If development stops, the tutorial explains which service or road connection is missing.
Move and build
Drag an empty part of the map or use the arrow keys to pan. Scroll to zoom. The desktop minimap moves your view. Choose a road or zone tool and drag over tiles; choose a service building and click its plot. Select a tile to inspect it. The toolbar includes pause and speed controls.
On touch screens, use the bottom toolbar and map gestures. Larger building plots need room. Buildings are shown over their actual footprint—watch the highlighted plot before placing one.
Read the City Books
Open the budget/book control to see wages, tax rates, income and upkeep. A month closes together and your treasury can go below zero. Build roads and services thoughtfully; homes need jobs and businesses need workers.
Save before changing devices
The game saves automatically every few seconds. Wait for the cloud strip to say Saved across devices before leaving, then use the same MFHS login on your next device. Active and named cities, tutorial and display preferences follow that login.
Keep a Download device copy for a town you care about. If devices disagree, the game stops and asks you to download first, then choose the cloud or device version. You can restore a Cornerstone recovery file on the start screen after downloading your current copy.
A parent download contains current and previous snapshots for review. Parent deletion removes cloud cities; remove browser copies and downloaded files separately. If a parent withdraws permission or a login expires, child access stops and the device copy remains available to download.