Virtual Families is a casual family sim that runs in true real time, and now this acclaimed simulation game for iPhone and iPod touch is available in a free version for the iPad. Adopt a little person from the thousands of choices of little people who live inside your iPad. Encourage them to work in their chosen career to earn money for necessities and luxuries, help them choose a suitable mate, start and raise a family, let them kick back with a variety of leisure activities, and take care of and improve their home. Along the way, there will be many different random events to respond to, house malfunctions to repair, and mini-puzzles to solve, all of them adding an unexpected element to the daily routine. This is the same sensational game that became a smash Windows and Mac hit!
The game continues to progress in true real time, even when your iPad is turned off, so don’t forget to check in regularly to care for your little people.
More about Virtual Families:
* Real-time game play, with new surprises every time you turn on the game!
* Fully trainable people: shape and adapt their personalities through praising and scolding!
* Marry for love; marry for money – the choice is yours.
* Raise children and enjoy them as they grow up and go off to college.
* Dynamic illness system. Play doctor!
* Solve hidden puzzles around the house.
* Improve the house and pass it to successive generations.
* Random Events: unique and unpredictable email and house events that bring everything from the tax man to free stuff!
* Collectibles: dozens of unique collectibles for your family to collect and sell.
* Trophies: over 100 trophies that can be earned for almost every area of game play.
* Weather ranging from sunny days to thunderstorms.
Recommended for people who enjoy Virtual Villagers, The Sims, and other life sims!
If you like Virtual Families Free for iPad, try the full version, which supports a larger family, more shopping and home improvement choices, and more options for medical care, and of course 100% ad-free! Have families of up to 8 people living, working, and building a legacy of many generations, all in your iPad!
Virtual Families Free for iPad features:
* Unlimited game play and multi-generational support
* Shopping for food and other necessities
* Full access to collections
* Small, close-knit families
Visit our Official Virtual Families site at www.VirtualFamilies.com for instructions, strategy guides, and much more!
LDW games have been awarded with:
* Sim Game of the Year – Game Tunnel
* The Zeebys – Gamezebo
* Parents Choice Recommended Award
* iParenting Media Award
Check out our other hit games: Virtual Villagers: The Secret City, Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children, Virtual Villagers, Fish Tycoon!
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Good concept but needs work
JAKnPack
The basic idea they have here is a good one, but there are some major flaws in the game play. #1 is sleep: the sims refuse to sleep unless you sit there and watch them sleep. They take a full 30 seconds every time you tell them to go to bed before they sleep, then there's nothing to do in the game at all. The sims remain constantly exhausted and sick, as you would expect when they won't sleep, won't stay asleep, and recharging is excruciatingly slow. I wouldn't mind the time required to recharge if they would actually sleep for a few hours or even a few minutes at a time. But no, as soon as you leave they are up and doing whatever again.#2 is aging: probably partly related to the fact they never sleep, aging is incredibly fast. My first two sims aged 20 years in two days! Real-time game play?! what real-time? When did they even have a chance to have kids?! #3 is something else to do! Players need to be able to redecorate the house, rearrange the furniture, something, anything else. This game is BORING! The animation is simply not good enough to watch them wander around, and when they stop to watch tv or nap, there is no animation at all. It takes a horribly long time for "pulling a weed" to go all the way to the recycle bin, or "picking up a sock" to go all the way to the laundry, and more. They could be made to at least walk a little faster.In short, there is nothing about this game that keeps me wanting to come back and play it. When I realized I was dreading checking on the little people because of how long it would take to do nothing interesting, I deleted the game. It's ridiculous.
Me and my " special " relation ship with my virtual family
Citlali12345
Well, I can't complain about the quality in this ah game we have here. One thing that bothers me is that when I'm adopting people, all of them that I'm scrolling through look kinda weird. They look like they came from an African American tribe, like for real! At least try to make them look cute. But anyways I have a family of my own, and this family's always freaking starving and tired and freaking depressed, I mean COME ON you guys have 1,016 dollars! You ma'am shud be happy! And do you expect me to feed u while u sleepin' at the same time!? Like thas impossible, not even me can do dat. Gurl and boy u better learn to take care of yo self! Yow think imma be here all dis time trying to feed you while you tryin'a sleep, oh no gurl. I try to make you happy by trying to have u get a baby , but nahhh yo don't let me do that neither ! You Ethear say you and juu husband are really exhausted or you telling me dat ain't no body got time fo dat. And WAT I think is also pretty wired about this here game is that , if. Be putting options like " I don't want a baby: NO WAY " y'all need to make categories for dat cuz I be trying to look for dat definetly section , cuz y'all know I want the family to have family, to be happy, but I can't even find a momma that wants baby's! But overall I give this game ahh 3 stars cuz it ain't that good you should try to find a game that's just better and that doesn't take over your life. Because I left this family for 1 day and they already be ding on,eh! Like WOW how RUDE! But thas all I gotta say. Bi
Sad;(
Blue star49
My two people died!!! I worked so hard and it was fun. They died. After I think two days without playing I checked on them and they were on the bed with their legs straight and a message appeared on my screen and it said your two little people have died. You must start a new game. Then on the bottom it said You have lost please start over. Why!!!!!! IT WAS SO SAD I'M SO DISAPPOINTED!! :(It was a good game but I now deleted it. It is a part of life and it will sometimes happen so I have to claim down. I will give this three stars. I'm sorry I say to give three stars please let those little people R.I.P I'm so sorry for not taking care of them! I wish I had time to but I was busy so blahhh! DX now I say to you good bye peoples
Anonymous
MadHatterHeffelfinger
I love this game! The mother is 50 , the father is 48, and my son is at college. Just a few questions...... Will your children come back from college eventually? Can you, and if so how, do you fix the cracks in the floor? Also, can you fix the birdbath? I have tried to drop the father on the birdbath and every time I do that it says " It seems as if the birdbath is missing a part." Another question: Can you buy home upgrades in the lite version? I'd love it if you could, I'm sure you can do that in the full version but my parents don't allow me to purchase apps. Is it possible to have twins, triplets, or even quadruplets? After the parents had already had one kid I tried to make them have another but it said, " More children are available in the full version." If there is anyone out there with more than one child I would love to know how you did it. Well, if you have read my review hopefully you can help me out in some way! Sorry this was so long this app is just so great I had many questions to ask and many things to tell. I would also appreciate it if the makers of this app could make the full version free. Thanks for reading. Hope someone can help me! *****
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LDW Software, LLC
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Simulation
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Requires iPadOS 3.2 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 3.2 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.