Virtual Villagers Origins 2 4+

As many have stated it is a tediously long wait for things to be crafted. I tend to put things in to be crafted then pop off for the day. Not sure who puts the prices on items but they really are ludicrously exorbitant. Absolutely no game is worth hundreds of dollars, euros, drachmas, etc. I am assuming it is Apple as the pricing seems pretty much across the board with all in-house purchase games which is shameful.

Overall, the game is fine (I have the desktop/laptop and iPad version. Desktop is preferable, even though one cannot get the frog-eating bird with perch, or a few other things. The max # of folk is, from memory, 30 something (that’s with all totems and completed game - chaps 1 and 2). Absolutely needs another chapter or two - to make the continued accrual of tech points worthwhile. I have well over 10 million on the desktop! And well over 1 million in food. Of what use are they when there is nothing else to do? If there are no more chaps the. The TP need to cease to exist.

I’ve been a fan of the Virtual Villagers series for over 8 years now, and I’ve loved all the games, but I only ever found one flaw with most of them - tech points.

The tech points system in this game is by far the worst. For example, buying the first tech points for farming costs around 4,000 tp. Directly after, it costs upwards of 60,000. Considering my villagers only make about 200 tp every night, the process literally forces you to spend your hard-earned real life money to barely make a scratch in-game. The process is completely ridiculous; buy lavastones, spend lavastones for tech points, and even then only get 5,000 tp per 50 lavastones. Considering that the lavastones are few and far between, (including buying them - you don’t get as many as you’d think) earning tech points is far from easily achievable.

The single redeeming feature of this whole tech point parade is that watching one ad can give you either 100 tech points or 1 lavastone. The game is fun and all, for the first hour, before you realise that there really is so little you can do, as everything requires tech points.

I have loved this series since Virtual Villagers: Origins. I love this game and all it’s challenges, especially now that Chapter 2 is available. The only downside is that every now and then when I craft an item that usually takes 12-48hrs, the game will progress but the item being crafted will remain at the time it was when I exited the game last thus waiting a whole extra day or longer if it bugs out again. I also will play the game consecutively for days and am never able to reach the 6th day of the daily loot that floats in. It automatically diverts to day 1 as if I had missed a day of playing when in fact I have not. I don’t know if anyone else has had these issues but I do feel like I am missing out on certain things in the game. Other than that, this game is top notch and can’t wait to advance to Chapter 2 once I can finally get the items I need for the last puzzle.