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Virtual Villagers 4 – Family Game Review
Virtual Villagers 4 is a Family/Entertainment/Simulation game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 8th April 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 501+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Virtual Villagers 4 Stand Out
Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life is the fourth chapter in the award-winning Virtual Villagers series from the creators of Fish Tycoon and Virtual Families. This is the same game that became a best-selling Windows and Mac sensation!
Continue the story of the mysterious island of Isola and the tribe of lost refugees in Virtual Villagers 4 – The Tree of Life. The island's chief is worried that life is slowly diminishing on the island and has selected a tribe of explorers to find the source of Isola's troubles. They discover, and inevitably populate, the hidden eastern shore of the island. Watch over a new group of villagers as they explore the eastern shore of the island, uncover fantastic mysteries, unravel the story of Isola, and save the Tree of Life!
More about Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life:
- Visit the oldest and most hidden part of the mysterious Island of Isola.
- A new villager selection screen lets you start with a custom tribe. For an extra challenge, try starting with only children or select a tribe full of nursing mothers!
- New, updated user interface, plus our most detailed, vivid map yet, full of exciting new puzzles.
- Dozens of achievements for players to accomplish.
- New puzzles, new collectibles, new Island Events!
- Real-time weather! Clouds, fog, and sudden downpours!
- Real-time gameplay: new surprises every time you turn the game on!
The game continues to progress in true real time, even when your iPhone is turned off, so don’t forget to check in regularly to care for your tribe, help them gain skills and technology, and enable them to discover the secrets that lay waiting for them. How will you lead your tribe?
Virtual Villagers have been awarded with:
- Sim Game of the Year – Game Tunnel
- The Zeebys – Gamezebo
- Parents Choice Recommended Award
- iParenting Media Award
Recommended for people who enjoy casual simulations and adventure stories like the Lost TV series and Survivor!
This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Virtual Villagers 4 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 19th September 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
Hello Virtual Villagers fans!
We've updated Virtual Villagers 4: The Tree of Life to support the latest devices and iOS versions! We invite you to visit the fourth chapter of the Virtual Villagers series, joining millions of players who have spent countless hours enjoying a real-time, ever-changing, mysterious island. Continue the story on the island of Isola, helping your virtual tribe survive while solving the puzzle of the Tree of Life!
Return to Isola and help your villagers thrive and prosper!
If you enjoy the Virtual Villagers series, don't forget to check out our other chapters!
Download & Availability
Virtual Villagers 4 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Virtual Villagers 4 on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
The tree of life is the best one. We want another island or something. The content on this one is just better.
We love this game and had the free version, and we were like what the heck and bought this one for a dollar today. St first we thought it was a waste of money but now Ive found that it has a much higher village population limit than before, and we really like this feature. Im not sure if anything else is different but we love the game and we think that buying it is totally worth it.
We would say 100% if we could still rename our characters. You really should give us that option since the original and the other version for iPad has it.
We bought this game because we loved the entire series as a kid, would play it nonstop! We had a great time replaying it until the final puzzle. We spent quite awhile getting there and it turns out we cant even finish the game. The hummingbird never came EVER, literally the key to finishing the game and it never happens. Might be a glitch but very frustrating.
We love this gane, we remember playing it back 5 years ago and we are so glad to have found it still on the app store today. While we were playing the game it wont allow us to gather things. For example if we see a mushroom, it wont let our villager pick it up :(. Its been doing this for us on every game of yours we play, if it could be fixed that would be great :).
We absolutely love how this game is in real time! We love how atm we have 60 villagers! We have a 3* cause we would love for there to be a major update where we can explore different parts of the island and use our extra tech points for extra food or to purchase more space for our people! Please someone look into this! Would love to continue to have interest in this game! But do love it.
Ive played this game many times. And each time we have to give up at puzzle 15. The kids never pick up the flowers. Smh.
We would rate this as a 5 if there were more opportunities to have running villagers. We love this game but we get bored with it due to slow villagers. This game is fun and exciting when the villagers have the good attribute of running. Otherwise it is a dud.
We are in love with this game…yes…BUT we started out with the free version and got a lot done but when we tried to have another baby it told us that we cant produce more kids in the free version so we got the full version hoping that our data from the free version would transfer over but instead we have to start ALLLLLL OVER AGAIN!!!!!! And its quite upsetting to be honest. If you have a button to convert from the free to full version then you should be able to transfer your data over into the full version instead of being forced to start all over again!!!!! FIX THIS PRONTO.
We purchased the game yesterday. It has always been on of our favorite games to play on our down time but the app is not working. It will open but the game will not allow us to select any actions. Am we able to get a refund.
We bought them all will their be an UPDATE OF A NEW ONE SOON ITS BEEN YEARS NOW.
Our sister and we have always loved all the Virtual Villagers series! Although when we had gotten the Tree of Life on our iPad, we could change the names of the villagers. We know that the keyboard isn't supported on the iPhone for Virtual Villagers, but we'd like to name our villagers when we're on our phone lol.. But this app is so much fun anyways, totally worth it being ONLY .99!! It seems like a 5 dollar game haha:).
This game is so fun. We played it and we got stumped a lot but we looked up cheats lol but this game is super fun. If u don't take care of ur tribal people they will die but it's really fun.
We love this game we've been playing it since we were about 7. Its super fun, even now that we're thirteen.
We love this game except the glitch we read online for an adult to teach nursery school they have to have mastered 2 skills or more we have a villager that has mastered 2 skills and whenever we try it says "refusing".
This game is awesome. U can help your folks to survive in some kind of island! But we're looking forward to unlock the next puzzle. We just need to know what the butterfly puzzle stone is. And we have a lot of people XD XD.
Great game just wondering, why can't we put 4 rocks in the fire pit to cook fruit.
We know how to you get the rock pit cleared then heated stones in the rock pit and get leafs in the rock pit but to empty the rock pit u have to have level 2 on learning and food we think.
This game is awesome so how do we make soap bars?? We're stuck we have to clean the tree we started to work on healing it but idk how to make soap! Pls help.
The game is great but we have a few questions.Please help. How do you make someone pure of mind? Whenever we make a stew it says we need something nutritious, but we don't know where to get it.
Ok so we love this game! Here are some tips the dry grass is the little brown spot by the fire wood get level 2 building and put a villager on the rock pit by the yellow fruit tree it will take some time but they will clear the debris then heat some rocks in the fire and ur villagers will put them in the pit then cover with banana leaves voala cooking pit clear the debri by the water then put a adapt builder/scientist on the rock where the waterfall used to land fix the dock and build the clothing hut then get boiling water in the pot and set ur villager on the dock and they will make cloth the first building you build is the love shack so that if u get stuck on a problem u will b able to continue with future generations Have fun it's a ballI love this game, how u tell how much we do take the thing u love the most(family don't count) and times it by.
This Game is absolutely positivitly amazing.
This game is so fun but like a lot of people said they dont know how to get cloth and we don't know how to get the stream to flow by the dead stalks any help.
It's awesome. It just needs more food sources. We keep running out.
We love this game so much but we only have girls left in our village! Is there any way possible to get a boy in there! To get the stream to go farther you have to have a villager that is both an adapt builder and an adapt scientist and you put them on the rock where the waterfall used to fall.
This is a great game but we wish that when you clear the debris that the debris wont keep on piling up. We found that it was really annoying. We hope in the next update you guys will stop the debris. We also think VV.6 should be about them goin to the heart of Isola and finding a big volcano where they have to tame it and keep from being killed in explosions.
We love this game but we have a idea that the people should make for a virtual villagers 6 where u have to tame cows and things like that think about it :).
The only problem is that we don't know how to get cloth. Any help.
We stayed up all night and played continuously with our mom till we finished we love this series we need more.
We love the game! We like it better than all the other ones but completing puzzle 11 is hard! Anyone can help with 11,14,15,16.
This is one of the best games we've ever Played.
We don't know how to get the stream go all the way down the hill. Please help.
Plz help us how do you record the tree. We have researched denrology and we still can't get the tree to be cured. Plz help.
We thought its going to be the same but how come we started a new tribe?? We want our old tribe & we almost completed all the level we bought the full version because we want a big population! Please help us how to go back with our old tribe that we use to play on a lite version.
We'd totally recommend buying it! We've had no problems with it and passed the game (thanks to the Internet!) and still play it! It's fun! You should also buy it because you can't pass the came unless (because for one of the puzzles you need 20 villagers). It's worth $1.99.
Don't get us wrong, we luv this game. We just can't figure out how to clear the debris. We have 10 villagers constantly doing this, but they keep coming back. Please fix this or if there is another way, HELP PLEASE.
Omg dis is mega kewl!!!! Btw one of our peeps is 70 yrs and SHE HAS TRIPLETS!!!!! But even after someone "got clean in soapy pond" there still not pure of body.
You should make tech points available to purchase.
After the berries run out, how do we get food.
Ok lol we need help with 1 thing…where is the flipping dry grass to start the fire…we cannot find it, can someone help us by telling us where it is/what it's next too. Thanks we would appreciate it.
How do u cut the pulpy vines we need 2 make cloth 2 get fish PLEASE READ AND HELP us.
You need level two science and to fix the Pierre once you have made the cloth hut drag a villager to the fixed pierre and he/she will go to the cloth hut and make it.
We don't understand how you catch fish … Someone please help!!! We also would like an animal one too example.. Virtual horse or dog… Breed your own dogs, cats, horses guinea pigs, ect.
It's an game but it would b soooo cool if we had the opertunity to have animals such as farm animals… Maybe a virtual farm.
Ok in the beginning when you pick the villagers, only pick ones who like running.If you do,everything will go much faster.They run everywhere so they get to places quickly. ;).
It's a great game! We went to bed playing it! And if y need tips go to google and type in walkthrough for virtual villagers4 and when it pops up look for a site that says gazebo.
Also if you want to get more than 90 people finish the collections and each finished collection will add 5 to max population we think.
It's really complicated but google VIRTUAL VILLAGERS 4 WALKTHROUGH IPOD GAMEZEBO- it has GREAT tips!!! We wish u the best.
But when we clear the debris it jus builds bak up and it stops the water flow how do u make it permanently flowing reply soccerstar to help plz help.
This game is by far our favorite on our iPod, we used to have it on our computer but we ran out of time on it so we got it on this and it is awesome!! We totally recommend it.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.2.1
- Size: 78.79 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: LDW Software, LLC
Last updated: 19th September 2017 | Genre: Family, Entertainment | Developer: LDW Software, LLC