Virtual Families 3 – LDW Software, LLC

Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 08:32 am

Virtual Families 3 – Family Game Review

Virtual Families 3 Screenshot

Virtual Families 3 is a Family/Entertainment/Simulation game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 28th September 2020.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 106,865+ ratings on the App Store.

What Makes Virtual Families 3 Stand Out

The sequel to the smash hit mobile game “Virtual Families 2” is here!

A note from the developer:
Hi, and thanks for taking a look at Virtual Families 3! We have been working on it for quite a while, and we’re very happy to be able to finally share this new chapter with everyone.

With Virtual Families 2 being downloaded over 40 million times, we are so grateful to our dedicated fans and humbled by all your kind words and support! You are the reason we set out to make the third chapter of Virtual Families! We spent years crafting an experience would live up to your expectations, and we plan to continue to listen to all your feedback to make it better with every update!

Before you skip down to the bullet points and screenshots, let me say a few quick words about this game, and life simulations in general: I love life simulation games. I have always been passionate about designing them, and almost everything that comes out of Last Day of Work is a life sim of some kind. This one, in particular, thrills me so much because it is designed to have a life of its own: unpredictable and so different each time I play it, and each time another player plays it. I love that the story unfolds differently for everyone who plays it, and your experience with the game might be wildly different from your friends’ experiences.

Designing this type of game, however, has its own special challenges. The main challenge is that EVERYTHING in life is a great idea to add to a game like this. There are SO many great ideas, and we simply cannot put them all in at launch. So, while I hope the game captivates you as much as it does us, there will inevitably be things that you feel are missing and you would love to see added (tell us!).

We plan to update the content in this game. We want to add improved pets that are more like real life, more storyline, more events, tons of new things to buy, and the list goes on and on. We will also continue to tune and deepen all the game's inner workings that control happiness, health, and everything else. While the game has been balanced to be playable for free and without purchasing anything, we hope that you will find something compelling enough in the game to give us support so that we can continue to create fun new updates.

Enjoy Virtual Families 3! Please visit our Facebook page and our forums to give us your own amazing ideas and suggestions, and don’t forget to check in on your little family or they will get very sad. :)

With sincere gratitude,
Arthur Humphrey
Lead Designer, Last Day of Work

Virtual Families 3 has all this and more:

  • Adopt a little person and start a family. Make babies and pass the house on to the kids!
  • Train your little people to behave as you wish by praising and scolding them.
  • Create your family the way you choose, with the same diversity that you would expect in real life!
  • Your little people will send you messages, thanking, pleading, and praising you for caring for them.
  • Runs in True Real Time. Your little people continue to live, eat, grow, and work when the app is switched off.
  • Your little family is in your time zone! Is it getting dark where you live? Your little family is probably getting ready for bed then…
  • Highly varied, unpredictable game play. No two games run the same.
  • Make babies. Cure illnesses. Help nurture and guide generations of your family.
  • Restore the house. Remodel rooms and add new ones. Shop and decorate.

Recommended for people who enjoy Virtual Villagers and other life simulation games!
Visit our Official Virtual Families site at www.VirtualFamilies.com for instructions, strategy guides, and much more!

LDW games have been awarded with:

This Family game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.

Player Feedback

As a newer release, Virtual Families 3 is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .

Recent Updates & Development

Latest Update: 8th October 2025

Recent improvements include:
Unity updates

Download & Availability

Virtual Families 3 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.

Get Virtual Families 3 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 virtual series for families or villagers is a guaranteed hit. Similar to sims but we dont care for sims. Love this game. Love this company.

We love the new look & updates of the new virtual families game! It brings back so many memories.

So Im back we were 10 or 11 when we deleted this game and we come back here at almost 12 because everyone says their a ai logo so Im checking.

This game is the best we love. It.

Very fun! We use to play the 1st virtual families when it first came out. We recently redownloaded it and like this version.

Could use some modernizing but love the game.

We enjoy the game but we wish there was more rotations when it comes to the tv and other objects along with the rooms are rather large compared to the furniture.

Ive played this game for about a year and it is so much fun. You can continue your family and fix up your house. The only downside is the money it takes forever to gain it and you cant do very much without it. Pls make income higher or the days shorter so we dont have to wait forever to get money.

We started off playing the original virtual families and it was good, the only issue we have with this current one is the price of the coins. You use to get a bang for your buck, but now its too expensive and. It worth what youre paying for. Change the price of the coins or the amount that we receive.

Its a really fun game but we had a saved file and pressed continue when we logged back in and it deleted all of our things.

Such a great game, its so fun, but lowkey hard to get coins.

Relaxing game, but axolotls are not reptiles, theyre amphibians. Its just irritating that they put it in the reptile category in the pets section.

Not a bad game very friendly for kids. The only issue we have the game tends to say that it is doing something half the time it is not. So if you pick up an item or go to work or do an event sometimes it will say that you did something or gained something, but you didnt. Thats our only complaint.

It would be really cool if we could that pictures of our little people in the game and have a virtual album were we could access them as a souvenir of previous generations.

Admittedly, the game is fun, we tend to get lost in time whenever we play. We appreciate the mystery girl feature and the realistic aspectlike sickeness and cleaning. Despite this, we find it difficult to enjoy the decorating portion of the game because we almost always never have money. We wish we had the opportunity to earn more daily, not by spending actual money. We feel like this could be improved by adding daily tasks like "clean the house for 50 coins" or "prepare a meal for 50 coins" so that we dont feel the need to make them suffer just because we know we could use their whole 1k coins in a snap.

We hate how we can barely make money off of the resort. You could save up for 5 gens. Buy a room in the resort for 10k and only make 500 coins. What a waste of time. Please fix this .. As its apart of the game but it barely functions. Whats the point of putting in hours to not be rewarded.

We used to love these games, we mean virtual villagers and families ALL OF THEM. But we deleted this one on our second Gen because of number one making money was almost impossible without watching and ads and number 2 every time we opened the app half the family members were SICK. And on top of that they needed three medicines each which included VANCOMYCIN which costs 390 coins which the family only makes 400 coins a DAY. After the sixth family member got sick (we didnt check on anyone else) today we deleted the game rather than let them die. We watched like 20 ads just for them, ALL SEVEN OF THEM to need Vancomycin and other medicines 4 times a day. No thank you.

So we recently just started playing this game and we like it. We have four kids and its great but the two year-old does not look like two not even close. We mean theyre small and all but like their body does not look like a two year-old we would fix it and the babies. We wish you could do more with because theyre kind of just wasting time because you cant do anything with them. Also maybe have more interactions between the people and the family but overall those are all the adjustments that we found so far and we will continue playing this game and we like it so far.

We quit after 2 levels. Its frustrating that there arent great instructions for different scenarios (had to google what to do when you have the internet down or multiple other scenarios). Every time we opened the game someone was super sick, and it made it hard to make money. Ive played this before and dont remember it being so frustrating.

Gameplay is fun! But things constantly break, people always get sick, and they rarely make enough money. It goes to food and medicine because otherwise they cant do anything.

We think this game has a lot of potential, but right now it feels anticlimactic. Ive spent four months playing, working toward finding the toy thats supposed to get rid of the ghost. When we finally found it, the moment fell flat. We expected a deeper payoff, maybe giving the toy to the ghost, seeing a backstory, or uncovering something meaningful, but none of that happened. It honestly made the whole quest feel like a waste of time. Another issue is how one-dimensional the game feels. Theres no real interaction with other players, and everything takes place inside the same house, which can get boring. The storylines could be so much richer, and it feels like a missed opportunity not to take them further. We understand not wanting to overcomplicate things, but the game really needs more layers to stay engaging. We do enjoy playing, but the constant charges for everything are frustrating. Many players, including ourselves, dont have a lot of disposable income. We play because the game brings us joy, but that joy fades when every feature or item comes with a high price tag. If the game is going to stay this simple, things need to be more affordable. And if the developers plan to expand the game, that depth needs to come without nickel-and-diming players. Overall, the game could be great, but it needs more substance, more interaction with other players and more fairness to truly get there.

The game is really slow we log in maybe once or twice a week to check the progress of our sims. Its not really easy to make money so it kinda makes the game a little less enjoyable than others. But we do enjoy at least 15-20 mins a day before Im bored and move on.

We like the game but it needs to be updated. We cant use some of the functions because the game isnt formatted to fit our screen. We have a iPhone 16pro. The tab bars are in the way.

We love this game played it for years all versions. Everything is so expensive to buy and not to mention the mom and dad dont make that much to even let you buy stuff its so hard and not to mention everytime we come back in the game somebody is always sick or they die fast then we have to start all over please upgrade the expense or have the careers pay more.

We worked hard and it deleted our whole profile.

Hi there, Love this remake/rework of virtual families but please tell us that virtual villages is in the works as well! We would love to see that game re mastered. Keep up the good work! Also can we speed up the process to get a task done. Waaaay to time consuming.

Whenever we put our people to sleep they still will get tired when they wake up! We dont get it, can you fix this bug please.

Most games where we sign into our apple account, we only sign in once and it keeps us logged in. We originally didnt sign into any account and been playing on and off for awhile but made a lot of progress. Then we opened it one morning and everything was gone. So we figured Id log into our apple account.. And we have to log in by using face scan every time. It just gets annoying. Im giving it 4 stars because we love the game and its very nostalgic, and realistically its not an issue that would bother many. We just deleted it because our phones face recognition isnt great and we didnt want to log in with a password every time. TLDR: logging in without any account set up can lead to random deletions. But logging in with an account means you have to log in every time you open it. Even if you just time out.

We hate the character design. Its fun playing but sleeping dosent replenish their energy the way it should. Every time we get back on the game, after sending them to sleep in their bed, their energy is worse then it was before also they are crazy slowww, speed them up just a bit. Fun game but it leaves a lot to be desired.

It has way more things you can do than the original ones However it is very confusing and hard, we couldnt figure out how to complete tasks, when you upgrade they give you a house you can put together but doesnt show you how to do it, their need to be a specific place for everything so you know where everything supposed to be, just to confusing and very hard, please make everything more simple and clear and how to do it.

Just started to playing this, so far we like it.

Not time consuming and soothing.

Been playing these games for years, have never been more excited to get into this one, but theres one pretty inconveniencing thing, all the decor will glitch under things theyre on (the kitchen sink under the counter, we had a child, and woke up to find the game duplicated our kid until we had 4 of the same kids same age, and interests, and no plants stay on the table) will continue to play thru the issues, just an fyi.

You did an amazing job creating this game! Its relaxing and fun. Players were saying in Reddit that resort is useless but we kinda like it honestly. Although, we have some simple suggestions that can make it more interesting-if you like it too please add it: 1) Resort customers pay in counter before leaving the resort. 2)in resort, mini cafeteria game where we could actually manually serve customers like pubmania. Cant wait for such a version of virtual families <3 -Add manually gardening so theres more fun and earning from selling flowers/fruits. -add cradle as a result, both parents will be able to work. Since theres option in game to do in app purchases, we suggest not taking away the main fun of playing. So please add gems or other currency too – which resort customers will be paying us and by that we can buy some stuffs and keep enjoy playing! -The random events costs 300. So the suggestion is that if we get prize from random event , then that should be atleast 300+ Thank you for reading our review suggestions.

This game has been good to us for 10+ years now xoxo.

Im not even that far into the game and its telling us to get them medicine and not where to find it and then it glitched out completely and wasnt working.

We've been playing for a while. A couple things we would like to see are new clothes, furniture, more pet options etc. It needs to be updated in those areas. Another thing that would be cool is if we had more marriage options instead of just 6 and then having to wait 3+ hours to receive more. Other than that, it's a great game.

How to go on family trips? Im on our 3rd generation and still dont see that option.

We live on this game we love it so much.

Never play this before. Kind of confusing.

We love this game and the concept. Ive played this game on and off since we were a child and it remains a favorite although we have wished to see more improvements in the actual graphics at this point. It is nostalgic that not much has changed since we were a kid except the addition of the resort and family vacation but its very much of the same situation and gaining money isnt very easy and its time consuming. Still wish we could play on the computer, work on their career with them or even cook or choose their meals.

Overall we love the game. We would like more variety of people in the game and we would also like for more fun places to visit and go outside of the home. We would like to visit neighbors houses. We would also like the mother and father character to make at least 100+ coins once done with work. Overall we love the diversity of the game.

Play with our kids keep us engaged and having fun.

We can finally have an all-gay family!!!!! Had been playing this game for over a decade. This is a nice surprise to come back to.

This game has been around for so long and continues to be an amazing experience. It has also recently arisen in popularity especially on TikTok. It continues to be a good game even in its simplicity. We have spent a good amount of money and time on this game, we have played all the versions for many years now, and we can say we truly do enjoy it. But we will say this one compared to Virtual Families 2 is a little money hungry.. But on that note regardless it still is truly a good classic.

Can you please add In cribs so both parents can work on their careers and can you make everything a whole lot cheaper and open everything all at once instead of waiting for the next generation also can update the graphics of the game, we appreciate what you do and just want to see the game show there full potential.

Its a 3 version of virtual Families its fun like, virtual families 1 and 2 its just so fun we cant stop playing it and, shiny details you should make, a virtual families 4 and 5 and 6,7,8,9, and 10.

We absolutely love this game, we always have and been playing it for years but recently its gotten a bit boring. We need new features like different random events, new outfits for the virtual families, vacation trips where we can win incentives and we desperately need a change to the family resort..its almost impossible to make enough money to get any upgrades.. That should be easier plus the ratings do nothing but go down no matter what you do.. Also what is the deal with the ghost girl.. Its been years and still no one discovers her or can do any random events relating her.. We would love some new features.

So we love this game and its entertaining and we like how you can have children but it doesnt show anything inappropriate.we like how you dont have to pay real money.

We played the original Virtual Families game years ago. Its wonderful to come back and see more features that make the game even more like real lifea true simulation.
User feedback from Apple App Store

App Details

  • Version: 2.4.6
  • Size: 264.34 MB
  • iOS: 15.0 or later
  • Languages: EN
  • Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
  • Developer: LDW Software, LLC

Last updated: 8th October 2025 | Genre: Family, Entertainment | Developer: LDW Software, LLC

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