The game so far is good I’ve played all the virtual villagers and so far my favorite game, my only issue is that not being able to do certain things due to how slow the game moves and then u have to spend money to get the lava stones to progress faster by time your getting to where u need the whole village be then died. I’m currently at a hault, I spent over 37$ for new everything more everything just for my villagers to die . Now I’ve had to start again and it’s slow progress with my scientists

I have played EVERY virtual villagers from when i was a child and you had to play it off of the computer. I’ve completed each version of the game multiple times and bought the paid versions for my phone. That being said i respect using ads for progressing through the game quicker. However, i am appalled that trying to simply take five minutes off of crafting a product isn’t worth one video. I was on a roll trying to finish a puzzle and wanted to watch a video and afterwards it secured 10% off the time. Of a five minutes craft. That is not worth the ad time versus craft time. As well the tech is really high, which the latest games have stayed consistent with high tech to progress, and I know people have asked for it not to be that way because i do read the reviews people have mentioned and it being overboard as well as playing myself. To me it seems that ivirtual villagers does have high demand to make newer versions as it’s been out for a decade and high popularity, but i feel as though makers aren’t hearing your audience. I would much rather pay a straight one time fee to own the game and support the franchise than pay a lemur and bird to grab poisonous crabs and go down the crack in the earth for me and get 10% off a craft time after watching a minute long video. If im logged on I can do those actions myself. If this was my first interaction with this franchise, I would not finish the storyline. Please genuinely listen to your audience.

This game completely misses what made Virtual Villagers great in the first place.The older games were simple, relaxing, and rewarding. You could progress at your own pace and actually enjoy solving puzzles and growing your village. Now it feels slow, grindy, and designed to push you into spending money just to make any real progress.The pay-to-progress elements ruin the experience. I’m not interested in constantly being nudged to buy gems or speed things up just to enjoy basic gameplay. That’s not fun—it’s frustrating.On top of that, villagers are worse than ever at maintaining tasks. Even “masters” only work for a few moments before stopping, forcing you to constantly come back and reassign them. That turns the game into a chore instead of something you can relax and enjoy.Managing villagers feels clunky, and the overall experience just isn’t as polished or enjoyable as the originals.

I would be happy to change my review if I find a fix. I love these games! But this one is so glitchy! I had to restart my first village because the construction table was just missing and never showed up. The second restart came after all my villagers died from missing one day. My third restart came when my frustration grew from not having enough skilled villagers to complete the tasks. On my fourth village now and ready to scream. Do the puzzles need done in order? Must be because my scientist made plans for the hut before the apparently needed plans for the Turkey thing. So now they can’t build the hut (or won’t because they need an invention from solving the prior puzzle I guess) and won’t change the plans on the board. How am I supposed to fix this? I’m so tired of restarting.