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Virtual Villagers 5 – Entertainment Game Review
Virtual Villagers 5 is a Entertainment/Family/Simulation game from LDW Software, LLC, first launched in 14th July 2011.
It’s rated 9+ and currently has 361+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Virtual Villagers 5 Stand Out
Virtual Villagers: New Believers is the fifth 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!
Explore the center of Isola in this innovative new chapter in the Virtual Villagers series, while you reckon with a band of mysterious masked heathens, who do not believe in you! Guide your tribe as they attempt to convert the savages, by dismantling their precious totems and removing their scary masks! Make them believe!
More about Virtual Villagers: New Believers:
- Visit the center of the Island of Isola.
- Masked heathens that need to be shown the light.
- Mysterious heathen Totems to be dismantled.
- Many God Powers to impress your villagers and the heathens!
- New puzzles, new collectibles, new Island Events!
- Dozens of achievements for players to accomplish.
- 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 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?
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 Entertainment game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Virtual Villagers 5 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 5: New Believers to support the latest devices and iOS versions! Join millions of players who have discovered the mystical island of Isola, and prepare your tiny tribe to confront a new challenge… A group of masked heathens has threatened your village's survival, and it's up to you to show them the path. Guide your tribe like never before in the fifth episode of the award-winning Virtual Villagers series!
Revisit Isola and help your villagers thrive in the face of this heathen menace!
If you enjoy the Virtual Villagers series, don't forget to check out our other chapters!
Download & Availability
Virtual Villagers 5 is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Virtual Villagers 5 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:
When will the developers be coming out with the 6th version? We love this game and wish that they made a new one. Ive been checking periodically to see if a new version comes out but its been years and nothing. Please make another game.
Please make us a new version! Ive beat all the others and would love to pay/play a new one.
We just used the youth power on an esteemed elder who had a baby. Now we have a 5 year old with a baby. Funniest thing Ive ever seen.
We love Virtual Villagers and Ive been playing these games since we were a kid. This 5th one is the best yet. Its challenging but fun and exciting. The heathens gives a twist to this 5th install that we love.
We have played all virtual villagers games ever since we were like 6 and the second came out. We absolutely love it and it is definitely our favorite game series EVER! This is one of the most challenging ones but eventually we beat it. We have to say tho, it is really hard to press the buttons and to identify our villagers. Im at a max of 90 and we have no clue about any of them. Also a little help? We have done all puzzles and have the max amount of villagers however our max power is 999 and we cant use earthquake until we get 1 more. Seriously?! What do we do now? But is like to say that this game is so fun and we absolutely love it. Ever since we were little, playing the second game (and getting frustrated because we couldnt beat it until years later ) we have loved LDW so much and all of their hard work and dedication has been appreciated ever since our childhood and we really hope they can make a 6th game!!! This was probably one of the most challenging but also very fun and rewarding when we beat it. (The only one we cant seem to beat is 3 and we have no idea why ) But anyways thanks so much LDW and we look forward to the 6th game which we really hope you can release.
Love love love. Please make more like this.
We only downloaded this version of the game because the free one limited the amount of villagers you could have and in this one the population was supposed to have no limits, but we keep getting a notification that we cant make villagers have babies because there isnt enough housing. We think this is a rip off.
Ive been playing this game for a few days and we have a master scientist who is also level 2 of the building skill but every time we put him by the adequate it says Confused. We dont understand what Im doing wrong.
We have spent DAYS doing the same thing over and over because everybody dies while Im sleeping. And we just cant fix the aqueduct. We have masters in everything. They wont do anything. Our master scientist wont do anything at all. Im not sure if its a bug or what. We looked up cheats! Still cant figure it out. Im gonna lose our marbles and its your fault.
If theres ever an update to this game, Id like to see two things: 1. Tech points accumulate a bit faster, and 2. Events happen more often.
So Ive completed most of the puzzles and Im on level three for all the tech stuff. But how do we beat the heathen builder? Ive tried many times and used the time warp, but our villager doesnt seem to be going faster. Ive tried using bees first to stop the builder from getting to the challenge, but he doesnt acknowledge when our villager wins. Am we supposed to use time warp twice or something? And yes Im using a master builder.
It is impossible ti defeat the heathen builder. When we use thy time warp, our master builder leaves the contest and does other tasks. Ive tried 10 times 10 ways and nothing works. So frustrated.
We really enjoy this game but Im stuck on the builder heathen because of a glitch, it keeps moving our villager to a different spot without letting us finish it, help.
Love the games and we decided to buy this one but the actual game is bigger than our screen. We cant see a lot of the buttons thats we need in order to even play.
We got the free version then we try to purchase the full version from the free one and we cant so we buy it separately how can we keep our progress from the one from free.
The Lake Puzzle isnt working and our villagers keep starving.
Because you need a Master Scientist in order to gain access to the crops, another source of food after the bush no longer provides fruit, they make the process take EXTREMELY long, even on Fast play. Our other villagers have mastered tasks like farming and healing, but our two adept researchers are approaching master status slowly. Its unfair because with the bush producing no crops, your healthy villagers start to die. You have to just hope your adept scientist dont die before mastering science, if so, youre back at square one. This is the worst time lapse version of the game Ive ever played.
The rascal is annoying. Is there any way to get rid of him/her.
We've played this series for years now! We really wish they'd come out with some more because they're the best.
This is the best game ever!!!! We love it sooo much, but there is a few things we would like to say, like it has a few bugs, like if you have more then 1,500 food, if you leave and come back you have 100 or less food. Also, we would like to point out that we're annoyed with some people's reviews that this game has a bad deeper understanding. We think it's deeper meaning is that's ok to share your faith with others, but we'll stop there so we don't get into a weird religious fight.
We've played Virtual Villagers 1 -5, and we love playing them!! But now we just finished level 5, so we NEED more levels! Please make more, we love playing these games.
We just got this game! It crashed a few times, but then we restarted our iPod and it stopped crashing. Despite the tiny buttons and the weird objective, this game is fun, just like the rest of the series. The series is awesome, and each game is worth $5 totally worth buying for only $1.
Im sitting typing this on our we phone and we are waiting for the next one waiting waiting waiting.
YES!!!!!! DESTROY ALL FALSE IDOLS!! PRAISE ME, THE ONE, TRUE GOD.
We love this game but it can be hard at first so here is some help. First thing take down the fence and make a granary, use a kid or bees to distract the heathens while you work on the hungry totem(note: to make more noni use bees) to get firewood use a kid as distraction. Use lighting to temporarily stop the pain totem and because of the lightning the heathens will run away. Same thing with the knowledge totem. Get science upgrades first so you can get tech points faster. You can use bees,fog , or make orange dye(with the paint just drag a person onto the colored vases) to get the heathens out of the pools for the rainbow totem. You must get a villager who is good at science or building to direct the aqueduct repair then drag other villagers to actually repair it.You need masters builders to take down the blocking totem but the heathens will come back to it so use bees or lightning to keep them away. Once you dig out the maulisium or whatever it is called a pan will appear drag a villager onto it and they will use it to pan for gold and put it into that little container. Once you fill that container drag a villager onto it and they will take it to the fire and smelt it they will then go away. Wait a minute this gold is going to become the eye then drag another villager onto the fire and they will place it in the totem(note: it is pretty but bright) then you will be able to see the chief in this cool flower thing. To beat the heathen master builder you have to use a time warp on one of your villagers and then the heathen will covert. We hope that helps but we won't spoil the rest of the game.
Our son deleted the app on accident. We now have to start ALL over. We're crushed. But since we bought the game we'll take the time to start over.
For the dye pots, get the clothing hut. For the pain totem strike it with lightning And for the blind totem u need to unblock the mausoleum to get gold for the eyeball and you convert the cheif with the necklace If u need help put JCWoodward@Mineplex. Net. And your nickname! -Minecrafthorse.
How do we full up the pond does anyone know we need help and with the pain totem if anyone could help that would be great thanks.
We love this game. We have completed all the puzzlesand converted all the heathens we would like to help anyone that needs it type help: in the title or kik us @dianna_scruggs14.
It is so much fun u should get it.
We Love love love this game we play it allll the Time this game is perfect in so many ways the only thing we wish for is to be able to BUY energy and tech points because it very hard to get them and if u do add the money thing u get more money and we would be buying a lot! So please please look at our review it's a good idea.
We are running out of food on the bush and can't figure out how the get more. We have lv2 construction but when we try to rebuild the acquiduct it says that they need more instruction. Please somebody help us.
This is by far our favorite VV. We love the fact that you can make a nursing mother young again. She becomes a kid running around with a baby. Bad thing is it sets the nursing time to max. Still pretty funny.
We love love love this game but we can't figer it out.
It's a really fun game to play!to destroy the hungry totem just drag people into it.to destroy the weird totem by the dried up lake just put drag 6 kids into it.to destroy the totem by the lab use lightning to scare them away then drag like 6 people on to it.also you can get firewood by useing a kid or adult to lure them away from the wood.
How do you convert red/orange. How do you convert masters/chief how do you demolish totems. To respond title RE:HELP.
Ok. For the pain totem you have to use the lightning power. To convert the purple master heathen you need the time warp power you get that power when you reach 500 energy, you will also need a master builder for that. To fill up the lake you have to use your tempest power and the revive power, you'll need 600 energy for revive so you can go fishing. You'll first need to destroy the hollow totem to be able to access the lake, and for that you need to place 6 children inside. To be able to finish the statue you will need all three levels of spirituality and construction. Since you need a lot of tech points for that we get 3 level science to collect points faster.
This is another fun, addicting game by Last Day of Work, besides its issues. We're looking forward for a sixth game.
We keep hearing get the dyes but we don't see any? It was the second totem we broke btw using the bees. How do you break the pain totem? How do you get the mater builder heathen to believe? Thanks so much :).
This game is really great (for those who keep complaining about not being able to overcome obstacles well guess what it's a puzzle game so yeah you need to do something else to overcome that obstacle!) If your in to puzzles or sims then this is a really cool game though yeah the buttons are a tad small but we're cool with that.
We are very close to finishing the game but we can't get enough energy for the earthquake. We've reached our max population of 90 villagers and our max energy is 793. We can't find any new relics for our kids to collect, only the duplicate ones show up.
It's a great game ….. This is what worked 4 us 2 win the game …either use a person 2 distract the yellow people or use bees or lightning,lightning gets the red people away …2 destroy the the "rainbow totem" get the 1st level of science and three pots of dye will appear use the yellow and red in the pools 2 make orange , the people will get out…btw it's best 2 unbury the mausoleum 1st thing when u get the game…2 fill up the pond after it rains use the rain god power and it will fill up 2 get life in the pools use the revive power 2 convert the yellow and red people you have 2 use an earthquake ….2 convert the chief you have 2 pan 4 gold and when the pot is full melt the gold in the fire and have a person drag it 2 the chief and he will take off his mask…the pan is in the mausoleum ….we <3 this game.
To answer some questions. U have to put 6 kids in the hollow totem. And to convert the heathen master scientist u have to have a master scientist draw on the board.
It's fun and addicting, can't get off of it.
We panned all the gold put it wont pick it up and put it in. Ty.
The game is awesome. We would only change the villagers being scared of the orange mask villagers. Somebody need to change That about the game other than that we'll the game four stars.
We filled up the pond but how do u get life in the pond. Our ppl have a lot of food over 7000 but we would like 2 know how 2 fish.
We love the game…it's our favorite so far,,,, but do you think you could please make it possible to retrieve dead villagers from the mausoleum… We would really appreciate it if that could be a new feature…. Then it would defiantly be five star.
Hello! We are here to help you with tips and cheats! To help the heathens with purple masks: heal the sick heathen in the hospital. When you get the god power time warp, put it on a master builder and challenge the purple masked heathen by the mausoleum. Then, once you have dismantled the knowing totem (we will get to that later) draw up a solution on the little hide board. After you have done all these, pick up the necklace pieces!!!!! Now, first you should dismantle the hungry totem, as soon as you begin! Put a swarm of bees on the guards, and get to work! Do this with all the totems except for the Rainbow and Blocking. Once you have gotten science tech level 2, 3 pots of dye will appear up north. Get a villager to pick up a yellow pot and get another one to pick up the red. The pools will turn orange, so set your people to dismantle the totem! For the blocking totem, you'll need at least 3 or 4 master builders. When the heathens start to come over, hit them with lightning then continue. Then unbury the mausoleum and you will find a pan. Make a villager pick it up. After that make a villager 'pan for gold.' when the pot is full make a villager shape it into an eye. Bring the eye to the totem by the forest and you will see the chief. After you can see him bring him the assembled necklace. He will take off his mask!!!! When you get to make it rain, do it! After there are puddles in the lake make it rain again and the lake will fill up. To destroy the totem by the lake put 5 kids in it it will explode. When you can cause an earthquake do it until every heathen now believes! Congrats you have finished.
U can have babies, u just need to keep trying.
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App Details
- Version: 1.2.0
- Size: 86.49 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: Entertainment, Family | Developer: LDW Software, LLC