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Virtual Villagers 3 – Lite – Simulation Game Review
Virtual Villagers 3 – Lite is a Simulation/Entertainment/Family game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 24th August 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 184+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Virtual Villagers 3 – Lite Stand Out
Virtual Villagers: The Secret City is the third 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!
Care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. Grow a small village in your iPad: your little villagers have food needs, housing needs, technologies to research and diseases to fight! As the tribe grows and prospers, the villagers become curious about the ruined city they have discovered and the secrets it holds.
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 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?
Exclusive features in the iPad version include:
- Support for multiple simultaneous players, so that up to 5 people can have their own separate tribe on the same iPad!
- Personalize your tribe by renaming your villagers!
More about Virtual Villagers: The Secret City:
- Real-time weather! Clouds, fog, and sudden downpours that drench your tribe.
- Real-time game play, with new surprises every time you turn on the game!
- Discover who among your tribe is destined to become Chief!
- Investigate and rebuild the remains of a ruined city!
- Find new sources of food for your villagers!
- Help your villagers make a variety of unique potions from hidden herbs, many with unpredictable effects.
- Dozens of new collectibles for children to retrieve.
- Raise children who resemble their parents.
- Watch your villagers thrive, and then grow old, slow and grey.
- Help your villagers unravel the mysteries of Isola!
If you like VV3 Lite, try the full version, which supports a much larger tribe! Have dozens of villagers working, living and breeding in your iPad!
VV3 Lite features:
- Unlimited game play
- Full access to all village technologies, collections, puzzles and milestones
- Small, close-knit tribe that takes on the challenges of Isola
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 Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Virtual Villagers 3 – Lite 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 3: Secret City to support the latest devices and iOS versions! Millions of loyal fans have enjoyed the award-winning Virtual Villagers series, and we're happy to invite you back one of our favourites. Revisit the classic third instalment of the franchise, and guide your fledgling tribe to investigate and discover the mysterious remains of a ruined city!
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 3 – Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Virtual Villagers 3 – Lite on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 / iPad Mini 3 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 4 / iPad Mini 4 (Cellular) or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
This game is awesome but we have a question:can normal villagers turn into heathens if they have 0 faith.
The stick is long and grey, with a mostly orange tip at the end. Every place you find it is random. Sometimes, if it's near the greenery or plants, then it can blend right in. Look around the ocean, the orchard, and the amphitheater. Look in open areas too. It can also be near the lab, when the 'Nature is calling!' action pops up.
Give us an A! Give us a W! Give us an E! Give us a S! Give us an O! Give us a M! Give us an E! What does it spell? Greatest game EVER.
The Bowl with the feathers in it changes where it goes on each game you have, ours was near the waterfall, but then our villages died, we clicked start over, and that bowl was in the ocean, so it could be anywhere on your map, ppl can't help you find the bowl, because they don't have your game.
Somebody please help us!! We have all of the things for the alchemy lab except for the stick thing everybody says you need. Where do you find it?! If you have the answer please title your review 'megama' thanks.
This game is awesome! Love how we get to do tribal chiefs. Also, Sinien, you get a tribal chief by dragging a person to the amphitheater and putting them on the orange diamond-looking thing and it will either say "Robe does not fit" or a message will pop up and it'll say " First Tribal Chief." Hopefully that was helpful.
It crashes but another than that it's super fun.
Our chief is 21. Love this game one of the best.
We love this game! How do you get a tribal chief.
Make a cheif and have them "create magic food" by placing the cheif by the food bin. Pause the game wait 24 houers, than unpause and repeat!!!! Do it for as many days as you like.
Love this game and new graphics. Our chief is 6 years old.
Love this game. And it seems every chief is three years old. Just another chapter of the awesome VV series.
A 3 year old is our tribal Cheif LOL.
Some please help! We can't find another food source after the beehive and the fruit tree. Where is it? Our poor villagers are going to starve to death.
Pleasssssssse! Adddd thisssss! We'mmmmm beggggging youuuuuu. Can there be dogs to help kids find things? And can there be a wolf that could bite somebody and make them a werewolf? And you chose who it bites? Like if you click the wolf it has a menu of who it wants to target to infect. And in the full version you can effect more people SOOOO PLEASSSE ADD THIS.
We LOVEEEE this game and we would play it for hours,but our prob is that when we want to get the flowers like Tiger Lily or Rosa etc,it sends us out and undo the things we just did!!!! PLS HELP LAST DAY OF WORK!!! We WILL LOOOK OUT FOR UPDATES ALL THE TIME.
This one is good with cute and decent graphics.
We can't find another food source besides the beehive can u please tell us another food to use please our villagers are dying please.
The THREE year old is the tribes chief. And it won't do normal three year old stuff. A silly boring chieftress three year old. Really.we mean really".
We like this game a lot, its entertaining and fun but a lot of times when we get back to the game our little villagers die. Since they never sleep PLEASE read this and make a button that pauses it.
We tried the magic food, but the food could well run out in 24 hours. So what do we do? Also, for the alchemy lab, we have two pots, yellow and pink, and a bowl and stuff, but what else can we get.
If you're having trouble with bees, do wood++=. Then torches by beehive +. For fruit-picker-thingie, 3 master scientists OR builders go do it. For alchemy lab, master scientist, two pots, one yellow one red, a stick thingie, a bowl with 2 feathers in it, and a brown pot. Hoped this helps.
In next update please make things cost less tech points in game.
We found out that girls can't be a chief!!!!! Really……………..other wise good game.
Every time we try to collect the black orchid it crashes, throws us out and pauses the game. We don't recall this problem on the iPhone version… We'll buy the full iPad version if we're confident this bug is fixed.
Its super fun but the population should be more for the free version like 15 please becaus e we're going to run out of kids to get collectables and stuff because we cant have more kids :(.
Game is ok, better than the first two as there is more to do, but the potions always blowing up is SOO ANNOYING!!! Our potions blow up, so we try to make a healing potion, but those keep blowing up too! The game would be much more fun if they made the potions stop constantly blowing up.
And our game crashes when they pop up as well. Deleting this app.
The free version didn't have ads in the beginning, but now it does and it causes the game freeze when it loads a new ad. The game is fun but the ad detracts from it.
It is a great game. However, often when we drop a child near an herb the game exits and we lose whatever has happened.
Omg it says it's installed but we look for it a thousand times we were playing it then we turned off then when we'd turned it on it's was not there then we got a another app then we look at it the next day and its still like this.COME ON IPAD!!! You're better than this and thease are our favorite apps.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 55.76 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: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: LDW Software, LLC