"Virtual Villagers" Review
Last Day Games may be a developer you know because of "Fish Tycoon,"
their fish tank simulator. This time around Last Day Games has a
real-time game, a village simulator - a cartoon version of "Survivor,"
where they are stuck until they die, not just until they are voted off
the island.
"Virtual Villagers" runs in real-time, so even when you are not
directly playing and telling the villagers what to do, they continuing
researching, breeding, and harvesting crops on their own. Game can be
paused through the options menu if you cannot check on the game for a
few days.
Within minutes of starting "Virtual Villagers," you'll feel
confident playing. The first few hours are critical though, so you'll
want to be able to be close to the computer. During this time you need
to get the villagers going on research and foraging berries. Once they
get started, you won't have to worry so much about them running out of
food.
Besides collecting food to live, villagers need to research to
earn technology points. The points are used to buy technology (such as:
farming, fertility, and medicine) that will help make the lives of
villagers easier and more productive. It doesn't take long to research
enough to upgrade all technologies.
Another important "job" of villagers is
breeding. Villagers breed when you (or they can decide on their own) by
dropping a female or male over the opposite sex. They may embrace and
decide to indoors. Sometimes there's a baby, most of them not if they
are not experienced in breeding. Give one of them villagers the job of
being a breeder, leave the game overnight, and you'll have a population
explosion. Villagers can be assigned jobs related to chores on the
island (healing, building, breeding, farming, etc). It won't be all
they work on. They also spend a lot of doing things that don't help the
game at all, like doing laundry. This matters less when there are a
many villagers. In the start of the game, though it's a hassle, and you
need to watch them to make sure they are getting a decent amount of
work done.
The point of keeping the villagers alive by collecting food, breeding,
and researching to earn new technologies is to solve the mysteries of
the island. There are 16 puzzles to solve. Some are easily solved and
happen naturally as you progress through research and building. Others
require you to take action and use the pictures of uncovered puzzles as
clues. Solving some of the puzzles does require grabbing villagers and
dragging them around the island to see what happens.There
comes a point in the game where there just isn't anything else to do.
After the max population is reached, they can take care of themselves
well enough. Even the occasion disaster wiping out the food won't
affect a large population that knows how to fish. I won't give away the
ending, but will say it left me unsatisfied.
"Virtual Villagers" is not a difficult game to master,
especially since the villagers will take care of themselves just fine
without you. If you take your time exploring and solving the puzzles,
it's a worthwhile buy. Don't rush through playing the game on 2X speed
or you will feel cheated. "Virtual Villagers" is a good game for those
who only have a few minutes to play at a time, like those that
typically fire up Solitaire.
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i love this game i cant stop downloading it in every website!!!! 
