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Virtual Villagers 3 Lite – Simulation Game Review
Virtual Villagers 3 Lite is a Simulation/Family/Entertainment game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 18th December 2009.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 674+ 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 iPhone: 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 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?
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 iPhone!
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 sims 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 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've played VV3 on and off for years and it literally never gets old. The game is so complex and the storyline fascinating. It's legitimately challenging if you don't look up all the answers and we like that it takes more investment than just clicking around. We really don't have any criticism other than that we hope more virtual villagers games come soon and that we wish we could learn more about Isola. :).
We really enjoy playing this game, we like the puzzles you have to figure out and work towards. The issue we ran into is we cant listen to music or have a show playing on our phone while we play at the same time. We listen to music on our phone to fall asleep, so unfortunately we have stop playing this game before bed :( If you can make your game compatible with music apps or shows, that would be super nice.
Classic but had to delete cause it drained our battery.
Im gone one hour with 90 food and 8 villagers they all die of starvation!! The mushrooms dont spawn enough and the tree ales to long to grow fruit! Fix this and the game would be a lovely game but food is the key to surviving no one will ever have a great time having to pop in every 15 minutes just to make sure the food is still there. People cant stay in front of their phones all day.
How do we feed our villager there gonna die!? HELP.
Ok so, we love this game! It's pretty cool. But, there are some questions and comments we have….. 1. Where is the last pot for alchemy? We have a master scientist that is repairing it but we can't find the last pot btw, the other pots are up on the hill by the green thing where the chief stands, by the beach, where the kids use the bath room, and by the huge mud/dirt patch. 2. If your villagers are hungry, calm the bees and/or plant the seed and you will get a fruit bearing plant. 3. This is funny. We have a 2 yr old chief, and she runs around doing "kid stuff" but it says she is "contemplating tribe". 4. Our suggestion to the makers is to do island events more, and to give more hints on how to advance the civilization later in the game. Also that nursing mothers can work 5. Question. What do kids that are apprentices do? We have a child apprentice farmer, but she just runs around and doesn't work when we set her to a farming task. Thanks! Peace out.
Im 15 and we remember playing this when we were 9… Im going back to playing this!! #memories.
We love this game.it has a lot of cool stuff and u never get bored. But we have been having a problem where we can't see the keys themselves and when we try to do a job or something it says "ouch, the gem is to hot" but we've been watering it and it's been days.we don't know what to do because it doesn't show the gem on the screen. If this is a glitch please someone fix it so we can continue playing.
Please explain to us how a 6 year old girl in our tribe became chief.Totally awesome though.
We have the pink key, but what about the fire key? We tried putting water into it and all our villagers do is drink the water! We don't know what to do :( and we wanna find out what's behind that door Somebody please help.
This game is fun! We'd give it 100 stars if we could! Here Is some help: 1.The Robe The robe is at the stage and looks sort of like a red party hat. 2. The Hive Make a fire with sticks and dry grass(is behind the house on the cliff) then get the torches next to the hive(it should say "trying an idea") and the villager will take care of the rest Hope this helps! :).
Where are all the pots to repair the the science lab.
One is in the clam at the coral reef. The second is in the fire we forgot how we did it though.
We put a child on the robe and it fit! Omg we now have a child tribal chief now lol.
Can't produce children after first hut is build it says it's available on full version n don't see a full version n we want to keep playing, need help thanks.
Add cactus, the black orchard, and the lotus. It will make your villagers do work way faster :D Just thought you guys would like to know.
We would change or add Add: a store where you can buy stuff like clothes or maybe cheats for 90,000 tech points( or less) we would like to see the BABY'S status. You would just click on the nursing woman on the details button and then click on her portrait where the baby is and WHAM! Is the baby happy? Sleeping? You'll never know until it's only 2! Boats so you can look for things like extra collectibles for rewards like 100 tech points if what you found underwater or on the boat was really rare.
Here's a tip Find a bush or a bee hive or a lake inorder to get food then drag a villager over to the source and there you go hope it helps we're 11 and yes we know every thing about virtual games.
To get honey u light a fire and grab those black sticks near the bee nest It will say " trying a idea ". To get fruit do u see that orange circle near the catapult? Drag a person to it and it will say " planting tree " Love y'all.
What the heck how do we find a food source this is CRAZY ……………. Now we are turning CRAZY because of this!!!!!!!!!!! =0.
We love this game but we Can't find the third level we're kind if bad at these games so if u could help title it "third puzzle" thnx.
For fire: make a fire then drag your villager to the torches our the bees then they do the rest.
Great game awesome graphics but how do you get the thing on the cliff near all the dirt?!it's hard.
We love the game but we can not find a lot if ways to get food. Help please.
When we first installed the game it crashed every time we put a kid on a plant. We followed the instructions on the LDW help page and voila! Problem solved. We did a hard reset on our iPad mini and have had absolutely no problems since. Additionally, these games are so much fun! We get really attached to our villagers.
Great, great game. It is so interesting and fun to raise your little village! 10 stars out of 5.
To make the sharks go away read the other comments.
This game is so fun. You even have a chief to amazing.You get a chief by getting people to try on the robe.
How do we get a tribal chief? And what makes the sharks go away? If u have the answers plz title the comment HELP 4 BC thx.
We tried to get a tribal chief on all our villagers but on all it said ''does not fit'' we mean come on we need a chief we're out of food!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! If you have the answer title it how to get food please.
People who hate this app, the game is just farther back in time than the original virtual families game. We hope you people understand the producers did their best with this game.
By the bee nest there is torches put any one there (only works on adults) on the bottom it will say "trying something" there need to be a fire going .don't touch them.the are going to light the nest on fire and BOOM there honey and you can harvest the honey! YUMMY HONEY we hope this was help if u need any help just but the title as help us PUGER LOVER ok bye.
We got all the games but all our people die in VV new believers 3 died 1 stopped believing in us and all that was left was the child. In VF they lived 90 weeks! We know they died.
How do you get rid of the sharks.
We love this app! Koolboy1237: you are so helpful! But…we only have 3 people left! 1 is 17, 1 is 53, and 1 is 57. We need help with getting more kids!!!!!! Whoever has the answers, please title your review: not enough people thanks! BTW: is there some potion you can make that will make your villager younger??? Whoever has the answers, please title your review: YOUNG POTION to need help sayonara: after you make the potion, drag the villager to the pink gem, then the villager will be "trying to reach the key" you have to wait a few seconds. But it should work. PS: Hheelllpppp!!-you have to put a lot of water on it. You can get many villagers to do it if you need to.
Plzz tell us how to pick up the gem in the fire pit?! Its always says gem is too hot eventhough we put some water on it! Can somebody plz help us.
Just keep trying if not then go to tech points and get the science one "Always say sayonara ".
If you put the leader on the food bin he will start creating magic food you can do that every 24 hours to get the alchemy room completed you need an adept scientist then go around and pick up the clay pots and the other things.
We need more food! THEY ARE HUNGRY.
The pitcher plant is located on the left side of the bath, where the children go and use the bathroom. The lotus plant is next to the stair case, at the very bottom of your map. It looks like flowers growing on a wall. Also, to keep your little villagers from dying, keep pop. Size to a minimal. Love y'all.
To get food— light fire, get touches, burn bees nest, collect honey.
AWESOME GAME!! Where is the pitcher plant?! What does it look like?! Please!! Title you review as Daddy's gal please! We need help! :(.
The tree- plant the seed by the dirt. The beehive- make sure you have fire. Grab the " hard to see" torches near the bee hive and have villagers harvest honey. Magic- drag the tribal chief to the food bin and he will make magic food.
We have been playin this since we were like five yrs old.
This is a really great game!! () ButI really wish there were more of those orange sign decision things. We've only had one and we really like them so please put more in? (_) Thank you! And you guys are awesome.
We need someone to help us!!!! We've made the potion and every time we try to get our scientist to use it he says Ouch! It hurts!! So we can't use the potion to get rid of the sharks so help us please!!!! If your helping us just put Rhamey as the title ok thanks.
We got our nature faction level 2 but where is the special herb?!?! Awesome game anyway though!!!!!!!!(especially for a lite version)! Help!!!!! We have everything you need to repair the statue but we drag our chief over and SHE WON'T DIRECT WORK!!!!!! Please can someone help ASAP.
K so for the bath thing u know the weird paper looking board? That's the chalk board drag a master builder and they will make "detailed plans" is what we think it's called and than when ur done ; BOOM! Ya got the plans for the bath. Any trainee adept master and the other ones (builders) can build it our bath is at 90percent now ,we think a puzzle is solved after or something … Later ;).
Puede hacer ms claro? No soy muy bueno con el espaol. Y incluya los acentos.
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App Details
- Version: 1.3.1
- Size: 55.04 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, Family | Developer: LDW Software, LLC