The gate
Talk your way in
Ask Officer Niyi and the gate police. Most nights about four in five guests who ask get in free. Or buy a ticket from ₦250.
Virtual Detty December · in the game
Make your character, talk your way past the gate police and party at Prizm with other players. In your browser, on a phone or a computer, with nothing to install.
Lagos goes all out every December. Here, the party happens inside the game: Joe-Izzy on stage at Prizm, the beach party, the estate radio and other players to talk to. There is no real venue and no real ticket, just a virtual Lagos night from wherever you are: London, Houston or Lagos itself.
In-game event onlyNot a real-world party, venue or ticket
Party mode is the live side of AJ Cities: every guest you see is a real player.
The gate
Ask Officer Niyi and the gate police. Most nights about four in five guests who ask get in free. Or buy a ticket from ₦250.
Prizm
Every ticket opens Prizm’s ground floor through the regular door, and Joe-Izzy plays from 9 pm Lagos time. VIP tickets use the VIP entrance, and the bouncers sometimes wave a guest through.
The beach
Tickets from ₦400 open the beach party past the bush.
The radio
The estate radio plays the same song at the same moment for every player, wherever you are standing.
Chat
Chat with the players around you. Pause and you stay in the world as “away” for up to ten minutes, as if on a phone call.
Your look
The Palmline Unisex Salon and Gatefold Clothing, next to the gate, change your hair, skin tone and clothes at no cost.
Everyone in the same world sees the same time.
Each lasts 24 hours. Pay by card, or just ask at the gate.
| Ticket | Opens |
|---|---|
| ₦250 | The bush (football pitch and the unfinished building) and Prizm’s ground floor |
| ₦400 | Adds the beach party |
| ₦500 | Adds June 12 Street at night |
| ₦1,500 | The whole estate, day and night, and Prizm’s ground floor |
Prizm VIP tickets, ₦10,000 to ₦60,000, add the VIP entrance, the pool deck, the rooftop and backstage. Every ticket and what it opens · How party mode works, step by step
AJ Cities is for players 18 and over. You sign in with your email and must be 18 or over to join the party.
No. It is a virtual Detty December inside the game. There is no real venue, date or ticket, and nothing here gets you into a real party in Lagos.
Yes. Most nights about four in five guests who ask the police at the gate are let in free. Tickets are optional and open more of the estate for 24 hours.
Yes. AJ Cities is built for phones first and runs in the browser on a computer too. There is nothing to install.
Usually. Pick the same world and you join the same estate. Each estate holds up to 60 players; when one is full, the next guests go to a new one.
Adults only. You sign in with your email and must be 18 or over.
Yes. AJ's story is the single-player side: deported from London, broke on June 12 Street, with a debt to the gate police. No account needed.
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