# Virtual Villagers 3 for iPad — user reviews > 66 indexed App Store user reviews of Virtual Villagers 3 for iPad by LDW Software, LLC, rated 3.70/5 from 62 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/virtual-villagers-3-for-ipad/id391593785/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/virtual-villagers-3-for-ipad/id391593785.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 30 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 6 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 11 ## What do users think of Virtual Villagers 3 for iPad? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 😄 Funny villager animations - 💡 Strategy for food management - 👍 Good graphics and realistic effects - 👍 Worth the money (for some) - 👍 Addictive gameplay **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes - 🐛 Game restarts and loses progress - 🐛 Potions blowing up - 🐛 Villagers get stuck or do nothing - 🐛 Food scarcity and starvation - 🐛 Puzzles not completable (statue) - 🐛 Performance issues (slow, laggy) - 🐛 In-app purchase limitations - 🐛 Annoying visual effects (lightning) - 🐛 Unclear objectives/puzzles **Commonly reported bugs** - Game crashes frequently - Game restarts and loses progress - Potions blow up unexpectedly - Villagers get stuck or do nothing - Statue puzzle is uncompletable - Crashes when interacting with flowers/herbs - Crashes when interacting with growing tree/alchemy table - Lightning effect causes headaches - Items and food disappear - Cannot complete statue challenge - Women stuck nursing, kids not aging - Leader stops directing for statue - Game crashes when dropping villager on flowers - Game crashes when putting chief on growing tree/alchemy table - Villagers do nothing after one action - Crashes around using flowers - Crashes when trying to make potion or drop on flowers - Lost progress due to crashes - Crashes when picking up a herb - Crashes when getting someone to pick an ingredient for potion - Crashes when dropping chief on items - Planted tree disappeared - Crashes when dragging villager to cactus - Crashes when dragging villager to collect black orchid **Most requested features** - Allow more than 9 villagers - Upgrade within the app - Make potions stop blowing up - Fix crashing when interacting with flowers/herbs - Fix statue puzzle progression - Fix crashing when interacting with growing tree/alchemy table - Add fishing as a food source - More food availability - Improve help section clarity - Make villagers walk faster - Add Virtual Villagers 4 & 5 for iPad - Include the first Virtual Villagers game - Make it get dark at night - Add a clothing hut - Remove dots on skill bars ## Newest reviews (14 of 66) ### 4/5 — Error *2014-10-11, version 1.1.1* I have looked up the potions for multiple births & have tried them all & nothing my current population is 25/30 ### 3/5 — It has a bug *2013-11-29, version 1.1.1* Every time i send i kid to pick up one of the flowers the game crashes ### 2/5 — ^_^ *2013-03-13, version 1.1.1* Even on easy your village dies easy. Don't download it if you don't want to get frustrated. Also, it exits without you doing anything!!!! Annoying!!! ### 3/5 — Found a bug *2013-03-01, version 1.1.1* When i get to the puzzle of fixing the statue, my tribe will get the statue to the top of the path then stop. I cannot get the chief or any of them to see it when hovering over it. I cannot complete the puzzle.... I have uninstalled and reinstalled twice hopeing that would fix it. ### 2/5 — Fix needed *2013-02-07, version 1.1.1* Mine is the same. The game crashes every time I drop chief or kids on a herb. Please fix. I expect it to work properly when I pay. ### 2/5 — Flash blindness *2012-10-20, version 1.1.1* I find this version very comparable to the PC game. The big problem I have with this one is when it is raining the lightening effect just flashes continuously and causes me really bad headaches. It feels like a strobe light. Please fix! It makes playing the game very difficult. ### 2/5 — CONSTANT CRASHES!!! *2012-10-20, version 1.1.1* So angry! I never had this problem on the iPhone version and I'm EXTREMELY IRRITATED that I have paid for this game twice now and it crashes all the time. Items I've collected disappear, my food disappears, this is NOT ACCEPTABLE. This is a paid game. FIX THE CRASHES! ### 2/5 — Statue Stuck! *2012-09-10, version 1.1.1* This game is really fun like all of the V.V games but in this one I cannot complete the statue. I get to the top of the hill and it just sits there. No one will continue working on it...and I have 6 builders. Tried them all and nothing. Please fix this issue. Would be a 5 star game easily. ### 3/5 — Needs a new update *2012-07-25, version 1.1.1* I love the V.V. games! I was doing pretty good, about halfway through all the puzzles, when it started crashing. I reboot and pick up where it reset me to, losing food and tech progress, and it let's me play for a couple minutes then crashes again. About 4 times in the last 15 min. Please fix! ### 3/5 — Key *2012-07-17, version 1.1.1* How do you reach that pink key at the top of the cliff? I put my people next to it and they just jump. It doesn't work!!!! Help please!!!!!! ### 3/5 — Gameplay slow, food is scarce *2012-07-10, version 1.1.1* I have played VV 1,2 and now just finished 3. This has been the slowest version yet. It takes days and days to finish tasks and food is so scarce in the beginning that you will lose half of your villagers. Three stars because I love the series this version just wasn't as fun. ### 2/5 — Needs Fixing!!! *2012-06-30, version 1.1.1* This app needs a fixing. It keeps closing by itself whenever I put the tribal chief on top of the growing tree and the alchemy table!!! If this isn't fixed...it's not worth your $$$. ### 2/5 — Villagers do nothing *2011-12-29, version 1.1.1* I like the game but when I put. Villager to do something they do it once then stay there frozen doing nothing... I hope you come out with an update to fix this. Other than that the games great! ### 1/5 — Don't buy it *2011-11-13, version 1.1.1* Within 5 mins the game has crashed repeatedly around using the flowers. Even after following the troubleshooting instructions on the developer help wage. The game is a great game and has really been let down by poor functionality! Please fix quick! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — I wasted my money *2026-05-25, version 1.3.1* Bugs. Glitches. Resources not even replenishing ### 1/5 — Do not get this version!! *2017-03-04, version 1.1.1* Do not get this version. It limits you to 9 villagers making it impossible to play. Would be fine if it allowed you to upgrade within the app but it does not. VV3 is there best game. Worth playing the full version....NOT this one! ### 1/5 — Ok game except for potions *2014-11-23, version 1.1.1* The game itself is ok, better than the first two since there's more to do. However, the potions blowing up is SOO ANNOYING!!! I'll have a potion blow up on me, then try to make a healing potion, and those will keep blowing up on me! The game would be so much better and more enjoyable if they made them stop constantly blowing up. ### 1/5 — Needs updated *2014-02-26, version 1.1.1* Desperately needs updated, keep crashing. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2013-08-25, version 1.1.1* Game crashes all the time, would money back! ### 1/5 — Crashing issues *2013-06-10* Loved the game when it was working, but now it crashes every time I drop a villager an an herb to make a potion. Very frustrating, especially because I paid for this game. Will be 5 stars when fixed. ### 1/5 — Keeps restarting aargh! *2013-05-26, version 1.1.1* For no apparent reason it sometimes restarts and loses all progress. Because you can't save a game this effectively makes it unplayable. Such a pity because I loved Virtual Villagers 1 and 2. ### 1/5 — Crashes! *2013-03-30, version 1.1.1* Just purchased this and it continues to crash and not save any information.....awful. ### 1/5 — Crashes, no update since 2011. *2012-08-12, version 1.1.1* Having the same issue people were having in 2011. Random crashes, erasing all progress and food. It will run while iPad is shut off, but trying to have the villagers do anything, gather herbs, harvest food...and it crashes and removes all progress . This is not the free version. I do have an iPad 2. ### 1/5 — Statue is stuck :( *2012-01-19, version 1.1.1* It's at the top of the bath and now what? Ughhhh ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great! *2021-09-07, version 1.3.1* It was a great game! I think that the game looks great! It’s really funny when they villagers exercise because they act like kids! ### 5/5 — Excellent! I have one hint......🤗 *2017-03-11, version 1.1.1* The game is going really good so far and I have a way of keeping my villagers alive. First, go to options. Then you select pause. Finally you can put it on slow and play each day because your chief can create food every 24 hours. After you have saved up enough food, you do not have to worry about them starving.😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋😋 ### 5/5 — Statue *2013-01-19, version 1.1.1* To fix the statue u must put the person at the top of the hill. Then take ur tribal leader and put him on the statue head (bottom of the hill) and put all ur villagers where u put ur leader. ### 5/5 — Crash!! resolved,solution below. *2012-06-11, version 1.1.1* !! "My game crashes every time I put a villager on the flowers", !! I have discovered that once you have restored the Alchemy Lab the game no longer crashes and you can safely put your villagers on the flowers to collect them. ### 5/5 — seattlemomo help... *2012-06-08, version 1.1.1* Do you have any nursing mothers? If you do i suggest you wait till they finish nursing and let the mother try the robe on and the child she was nursing! ### 5/5 — Virtual Villagers 3 - Perfect for iPad! *2012-04-13, version 1.1.1* I have played through this game and the other Virtual Villagers games on my computer, but couldn't resist getting this for my iPad. I get to feeling so maternal about my little people and the game play is super. The graphics are really good and the effects like rain, thunder and lighning are quite realistic. LAST DAY OF WORK folks are excellent game creators - they think of everything!! No freezing or any other glitches for me! ### 5/5 — AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!! *2011-08-03, version 1.1.0* This app is the fully best out of them all!!!!!!!!! Best app I EVER bought!!!!totally worth the money!!!But please help me!!!!! I am stuck on the statue!!! all my huts are built and I have no master builders!!!!! not even adept or trainee!!!!!! all I can do is fix the huts!!! ! More huts to build p.ease include a clothing hut!!!!! But otherwise, it is an awesome app!!!!! ### 5/5 — Pearl-HELP!!!!! *2011-07-02, version 1.1.0* I am pretty far in the game and have 2 stones: the ash & the one where u have 2 jump 2 get it. I need to get the pearl and dont know how. Can anyone help??? Plz! Also can u tell me the requirements. Thank u ### 5/5 — Last day of work is amazing! *2011-04-24, version 1.1.0* I have all there games! All work great and are very pretty, you can tell they take time in there games! The only bad thing is this lay out is pretty big takes a min or two to get used to if your coming from the second one! ### 5/5 — love *2011-03-23, version 1.1.0* I love it but I wish they could fish and my peeps are dieing :( --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-03.*