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Virtual Life – Simulation Game Review
Virtual Life is a Simulation/Roleplaying game from JONG HA WOO, first launched in 7th October 2011.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 111+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Virtual Life Stand Out
Get your own world in the iPhone! It's a combination of Tamagotchi and God game. Creatures are really alive in the virtual world and always need your help. Take care of your creatures and protect them from lions and monsters.
[ How to Play ]
- Fruit and grass grows in the wet ground.
- Make it rain when the ground is dry.
- Sheeps eat grass.
- Lions eat sheeps and creatures.
- Creatures gather fruit and hunt sheeps.
- Monsters sometimes appear and attack everything.
- Shake your phone to make an earthquake.
- Earn gold from the tree and a chicken.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Virtual Life is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 16th May 2017
Recent improvements include:
This app has been updated by Apple to display the Apple Watch app icon.
- Fixed bugs
Download & Availability
Virtual Life is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
We used to play this game all the time when we were much younger. We had totally forgotten about it as we got older but as we were scrolling through the app store trying to find something to take our mind off the stress of general adulthood, we found this absolute gem and was instantly overcome with nostalgic joy. We are so happy to have found this again. Our fianc doesnt understand the hype but thats okay. We are perfectly happy to keep our little creatures happy healthy and safe from lions and the occasional godzilla monster. Some people seem to think that the game needs more features more complexity, more things to do – whatever. We argue this: sometimes things are really just perfect as they are. We wouldnt change a thing.
This game is fun and simple. Please come back and keep it running well :).
In love with this game. Came here to write suggestions even tho no ones gonna see them lol needs: – more grass available to spawn – creatures need to eat less amount of food – ground shouldnt dry out so fast OR change speed of game in settings. – add an option to turn off screen zoom out its very annoying – creatures should have a new ability to protect from monsters we suggest an ability to create block wide barriers slowly over time after prioritizing their needs. Creatures can slowly break down barriers, etc.
We enjoy it, not much to it and its a little small for such a wide playing field.
We used too love this game, and we still do! One of our favorite games where you can play god.
Hope we can get different color slimes.
This game overall is pretty chill, and its nice to just watch the little blobs (Im just going to call them blobs) do their thing. Despite this, we have many wishes for the next update, if it does come. -Maybe make the blobs a bit less needy? For instance, they eat a ton of food, and you have to shell out about 200 of it when just one duplicates. -Perhaps you could offer more ways to get coins other than the tree or catching chickens, such as selling items. Also, please removing or improve the limit for food; its a bit hard that you can only hold 1,000 at a time with all of these constantly hungry blobs.. -Also, about the chickens; the whole combo/minigame is a bit too tough. For each chicken, the timer shortens by three seconds (or somewhere around that). Plus, these really small chickens could appear the other side of the map -which is very large- and theres only one you can catch at a time. So, yeah; maybe tweak that? -we think we should be able to check the stats during gameplay. Since the only time you can see it is when you return after being offline for at least a minute or so, its kind of hard to tell what you may need to do when it is entirely gone once you remove it. -It would be much more interesting if there were multiple trees. Not only would it be easier to deliver food from one place to another, it could also bring up many other possibilities for different features. -When youre trying to get a blob to fight another animal, it is very tough to get it to work. Sometimes, as soon as the target realizes that the blob is nearby, it gives up entirely. Maybe give them a bit more persistence. -Adding on to that, different animals would be great, though not required. We do find it a bit unnatural that in this place, there are just blobs, lions, sheep, monsters and occasionally chickens. -For the tamagotchi, maybe you could be able to get more than just the cat. It would be nice to choose a different one each time for all of those people who may prefer one thing or the other. Another thing is that many people we know want to be able to take care of more than one at a time. -Being able to tap on the badges accordingly. Whether you need to find where a monster is, or if youre just curious about what your tamagotchi is about to summon, it would be very helpful. It may sound like we dislike this game with all of these different flaws we see, but we dont. We can usually find a way to get around most of these and still have fun! Anyways, for the developer, we hope you can consider these ideas/recommendations, and for people curious about this game, try it out; see if you can or cant hold it up! Thank you for reading this, it means a lot to us.
Does anyone else have this issue? It doesnt matter how many times we restart it just doesnt work, but we dont wanna give a bad rating cause we loved this game!! Their support is on Facebook and we dont wanna get a Facebook profile.
We bought this game like a year ago and we think it cost like 3 dollars or something? We deleted it but then recently got it again. IT IS SO FUN AND ENTERTAINING. ITS SO WORTH IT YOU CAN NAME YOUR BLOBS AND SEND MONSTER ATTACKS TRUST ME YOU NEED THIS GAME IN YOUR LIFE.
We played this game all the time when we were younger, we were addicted to watching our little villagers. We spent like 3 hours trying to figure out what this game was called, and we were so excited to find it! Unfortunately it seems like it hasnt been updated in a while, so when we downloaded it, it just crashes. We really would wish to see this game and play it again!! We would pay for this game too, to get rid of the ads. We hope to be able to play it sometime.
This game is lit! Please keep the 8bit simplicity! But time to add an expansion.
We are writing a review because this app asked us to, and normally we would ignore such review requests, but this app definitely deserves one. The other day we were sitting our room bored out of our mind, and so the memory of this app came to our mind At the end of the day, we knew we needed this app back onto our photos us after several years of it playing it. We literally spent two hours searching for the app since we couldnt remember the name, and after finding it we were overcame with a feeling of nostalgia This game is so simple and great, it really feels wholesome and we dont know what else could be added to make this game fun, because it is already fun! We highly recommend installing this game to give you a sense of peace and wholesomeness.
We LOVE THIS GAME SO MUCH! Please keep updating it!!!! It's our favorite.
The game is very challenging, which is something we don't find in a lot if virtual games. We like it but we don't know about everyone else ha.
This app is so much fun you get to express your skills with integrity.
We love the way the creatures are styled they are so adorable. We love the graphics too.
We really like this game, it's fun, keeps you busy and really easy to play, we don't see why there is bad reviews? Who else is doing this for coins.
Very cute and entertaining ^^ it needs more variety of creatures tho love love love it :D <333.
This game is a good pass time, if you have nothing to do in the car or something.
We literally love this game it's fun and easy to control but please make it a LITTLE bit easier to earn coins.
We enjoy it but how do you handle Fatigue.
Can you add more bosses,items and more places Thank you.
Ive been wanting to buy this. How do we reach out to the developer to purchase the rights to own this app.
We liked the interaction with villagers and all but the missing things are no one has a trait or skill that distinguish them we mean someone has to be good at building while the other os a good fighter…it would be more fun this way if u start from zero and then u can build your own village after leveling your villagers to 15 they will choose someone to be their leader. This way the game will be addicting, fun, and much exploration! Also if u add a feature where they can travel or explore new islands and interact with other villagers we really hope one day we see this happening but if u have done wrong things a war might happen between the 2 villages. Am soo excited we hope the sponsors will take this into consideration.
We think this game has a good concept and it is a really good game but we think there should be more things in it like more enemy-ish animals like the lions in the game or different kinds of fruit that add different amounts of food to the tree to each one. Over-all, we think its a good game and its less of a problem and more of a suggestion that can (hopefully) easily be made, and we would really like to see more stuff from the creator in the game. :).
We really like the game but there is not much to do. We think that there needs to be more types of animals and more to do but other than that we like it.
The game has simple graphics, but is pretty fun to play with. We really do get the feeling that we're maintaining a mini virtual world on a daily basis. However, we found it strange that you can't change the names of the sheep and the lions. Love the rain and earthquake function.
Getting more coins would be nice and to have like one more animal to hunt would be cute to lol like a cow or something.
We love this game it's cute and pretty easy to play, our only problem is the monster because it's very destructive which would be ok if there was a way to stop it but other than that it's great.
Tap VERY lightly and it will appear not the normal screen taps we are used to.
We had this game a couple of years ago & it was perfect no problems at all…. Now that we've reinstalled it we're having a lot of problems w/adding creatures food & etc. The only button it'll allow us to use is the raining button.
We love this game. The only problem we have is once you spawn a monster, you can't stop it, and once we did this, it destroyed a lot of our creatures and don't get anything out of it. If you get coins from monsters destroying things, then it's perfect :).
Its pretty good. The only thing is that there is really only one way to get coins. If you could get them easier, the game would be way better.
It would be nice if the game had some element of progression. Maybe if the blobs could grow into something, or if new elements of the game could unlock after every 24 hours keeping our blobs alive. It would be nice if we could build fences and be able to partition certain areas of the land. A lot of time and effort and no progression seems pointless. There needs to be some reward system.
We were so excited when we rediscovered this game just to find out that it wouldnt even open up. It just goes to the title page and then crashes out. We would love to play this again but we wont be able to until this issue is fixed.
Every time we open the game it just crashes. Im using an iPhone 6s. If you could fix the problem Id appreciate it. Thanks.
It only crashes we havent even gotten to play the game.
We think this is a super cute and fun app. The little villagers are adorable and we love watching them gather food and interact. The problem we had was that it is really hard to keep them alive. When there is a monster it basically takes out half your villagers and whenever we come back to the app after a couple hours at least three are dead just because of food and stuff. Good app, but really hard to play.
Only the rain button works. Please fix it.
We've been playing the game for about 5 minutes and already seen 3 ads. That's too much. We don't even know if we like the game yet.
It needs to get updated. We cant buy any sheeps or lions and place them.
We really enjoy the potential of this game but we wish there was a more clear explanation how we are supposed to protect them from monsters. Sure we could pick them up and move them if the screen didnt constantly zoom in and out instead of pick up our creature. Nothing stops them from doing there own thing like a fence to keep them safe or anything really to add some design /character to the land. Please make an update and let us build or make some sort of defense option. We cant even make the creatures stronger if we want too.
It's super cute but definitely difficult. We left the game for about an hour and half our creatures died while we were away. Am we just not doing it right or something? And it needs to have more ways than one to earn coins. Earning all the coins to get more creatures is quite more time consuming than we'd like.
We dont get it its just not that fun we dont suggest it.
It doesnt even let us start the game.
We click on it and it opens to the opening screen then just freezes and after a bit it kicks us off the app. We hope you can fix this.
We cant even do anything but make it rain. Seems like there is little support to help anyone.
It won't let us use any other button besides the rain option.
We would give 0 stars if possible we cant even open the app. It opens up and then it just crashes.
We just downloaded, and we can't to anything but make it rain. We can't add food or creatures.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.1
- Size: 25.99 MB
- iOS: 8.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: [JONG HA WOO]()
Last updated: 16th May 2017 | Genre: Simulation, Roleplaying | Developer: JONG HA WOO