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Virtual Villagers 4 Lite – Simulation Game Review
Virtual Villagers 4 Lite is a Simulation/Entertainment/Family game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 24th July 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 541+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Virtual Villagers 4 Lite Stand Out
Virtual Villagers: 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: 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?
If you like VV4 Lite, try the full version, which supports a much larger tribe! Have dozens of villagers working, living and breeding in your iPhone!
VV4 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 4 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 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 Lite is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Virtual Villagers 4 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:
Legit, there are no ads, you can play pretty much the whole game and without too many limits. You do get a limit on the population you can have, but still. Its, AMAZING.
We always download this game on every new smart device we get. Never gets old.
Its an ok game but we wish that the demo version would at least allow u to have more that 9 people maybe at least 15 as the highest. Its also alittle harder than the other games but thats good.
You know all the achievements and stuff? And puzzles? Yeah, you cant complete them all. Max population and all that. Terrible shame. Great game other than that.
Use to play this game all the time its a fun game but they need to update.
We got this version of the game (lite) and we love it. Im also very far in the game and want to get the full version so we can have more villagers but every time we click on the buy full version link the page cant be found. Do we have to download the full version from App Store and start over? Help.
Im having this weird thing with the food. It apparently started at 360! Uninstalling and reinstalling works.
All our villagers day in almost a day evn if we reguraly check in on them . We need the full version so we can increase population to keep it from happening but it wont let us do the full version it sends us somewhere and it says error. Pls help.
Whats the point in getting to choose your village people when they arent all the ones you choose when you start?! Like no we dont want a child or we would of picked a child we wanted the people and ages that we chose and its annoying when they arent even the same, and why can you click on their names like you can change it but no keyboard shows up- Im on iPhone btw.
We clicked on the button to buy full version , it sent us to a website that takes forever to load, when it does it says an error occurred, we went to the App Store and bought the full version (now we have both) and the full version doesnt have all our people or achievements. We need help because we dont want to restart, but we do need more than 9 villagers.
We love this game so much. But we can't accomplish the rest of the game because we have the free version. We would love it if we could buy the full version in the app and keep the village we've already created. We're gonna have to stop playing because we can't do any more accomplishments. We've bought the full version but we don't wanna have to go through everything we've accomplished once again. :/.
The games fine except for the fact that it wont let any of our villagers pick up collectibles at all idk what to do about it.
We cant find the dry grass for fire Help us please.
You need 20 people to complete the game but itll only let you have 9 unless you buy the full version which isnt working anymore.
We have played all of the games and we're finally on the 4th, so exited can't wait to finish, so far so good.
We play this on our tablet and it's a great game. We have high hopes for the apple version.
Probably because of the pretty setting and we like the tree. We also like Villagers 3.
We love this game but we have no idea where the dry grass is to make a fire. Please help us if you know the answer! Also thanks to the people who helped with making soap.
Last Day ofWork did such a good job on this app!YOU GO GLEN-COCOA.
The villager you put on the rock has to be an adept scientist and builder. Hope this helped ;D.
We need to heal the tree how do we heal it and how do we get cloth.
Where is the cloth hut if you know label your review Daddy's rabbit hunter!!!(include exclamation points!:-D).
Its a great game however we have one problem if we buy the full game will our progress be saved and transferd to the full game.
We need help to make clothing plzz help us.
Wat do u do with the hard fruit that needs to be cooked.
How do u make stew? There's always an ingredient missing, but we don't know what it is.
We absolutely love these games, all of them are so much fun!!! If u read this, play the games.
Love this game! Exceptionally fun! Would recommend to anyone who wants a totally AWESOME game.
We <3 <3 <3 these games!!! We have VV 1, 2, and 4, and VF 1 and 2!!! They are great games!!! Just a couple of questions… We have boiling water and we want to make stew, but it says we need 3 herbs? Also, we can't figure out how to cook the papaya things or spread the stream farther than the circle around the tree. If you know, please title: "Stream, stew, and fruit" (:.
Our villagers are out of food! What do we do? Help please.
How do u get the rubble from the pit.
We love this game, but we have no idea what to do about the stream! It is around the tree, and we know that you have to use the rock where the kids make sandcastles to make it flow all the way, but whenever we drop a villager onto it they say that it needs calculations! We tried getting level 2 in science and everything else but it won't work! Please tell us if you know, and title it 'stream prob' thanks.
We luv this game. Better than the others! We play this every chance we get! Thank you for making this game.
We love this game!! So fun! But can y'all please help us! How do u make cloth? Please help!!!! If u know the answer title it 'ilovepotatoes'. ;) thanks.
Where is the crab??? P.S. LOVE this game!!! P.P.S. Title it: found the crab.
Where & how do we get a CLOTH??? Thats the only thing that we need for the banyan tree and fishing net!.. Plzz help us.
Virtual Villagers 4 is one of the best games we have ever played.
What do you do when you run out of blueberries??? Please help.
How do u get cloth? Can u title it hobuck? Thanks if you answer.
This is any awesome game but we can not figure out how to make a fire because we have the wood but where is dry leafs.
To make the water boil, just get a rock and stick it in the fire, then bring it to the pot. Also to cook fruit, you must uncover the pit first then just put a villager on the fruit. Game is great, didn't have any problems.
Your tech has to be higher and you have to put a person on the vines and use the vines to make a stew thing and do a bunch of other stuff. It's kinda complicated we really liked this game if the full version was free then we would get it this name was really fun.
If ur tribe dies of starvation and they hav a lot of food, YOU HAVE TO FEED THEM!!!!! By dragging them over to the food bin.
Where is the cloth?plz help soon if u wanna help plz title it "mommas girl"thnx.
OK we have completed probably half of the game, AND we have allllll of the collectables AND have lv.3 in all the tech thingies. But every time we put one of our villagers on the "beautiful flower" it just says "refusing, this flower is not in bloom yet" if you have the solution to our problem please respond and make your title "daddy's angel" GRACIAS! (is that how you spell thank you in Spanish?) ^.^ Oh yeah, how do you cut the stalks?:).
PLEASE READ IF U NEED HELP we think this game is good!! But :( we have no clue on how to cook the fruit!! If u need help on something here is some help eat blueberries so your people won't die they are by the left bridge!! To fill in the hole in the stream by the tree go to where the old waterfall used to be!! Pick it up from a A builder or master builder!! One more thing!! To cook a stew well begin a stew u grab 3 herbs. Grab a rock from the rubble pile next to the left bridge and put it in the fire!! If the rock turns red put your person on it and they will put it on the pot to cook the stew!! But before u do that go to the top right corner and u will see a brownish peach colored object. Put your person on it and they will fill it with water and put it in the stew!! HOPE THIS HELPS.
We can't cook the stupid fruit and our tribe is starting to starve!!! If you can help please label fruit cook!!!! PLEASE HELP.
We love this game! For a lite version— just wow!!! Does anyone know if updating to full will erase your village.
We LOVEE this game!!! It's totally worth downloading we give it 5 stars.
.you can fill the hole in the stream with the rock that the waterfall was covering but you need a adept or master builder to move 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: Simulation, Entertainment | Developer: LDW Software, LLC