# Virtual Villagers 5 for iPad — user reviews

> 101 indexed App Store user reviews of Virtual Villagers 5 for iPad by LDW Software, LLC, rated 4.00/5 from 207 ratings.

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- Rating breakdown: 5★ 120 · 4★ 26 · 3★ 27 · 2★ 15 · 1★ 19

## What do users think of Virtual Villagers 5 for iPad?

Overall sentiment: mixed

**Pros**

- 🎮 Engaging gameplay with unique god-like mechanics
- 💰 No in-app purchases required after initial purchase
- 🧩 Challenging puzzles and totem-breaking mechanics
- ⏰ Long-lasting gameplay that keeps players engaged for hours
- 🎨 Innovative concepts compared to previous games in series
- 👥 Interesting heathen conversion mechanic
- 📱 Works offline without requiring WiFi
- 🏆 Addictive progression system with tech points

**Cons**

- 🐛 Frequent game crashes and freezes
- 💾 Save data deletion/progress loss issues
- 🎨 Sprite graphics are unsettling to some players
- ⏱️ Slow gameplay requiring constant attention
- 🚫 Heathens block access to resources frequently
- 👶 Eternal nursing bug prevents population growth
- 📊 Tech points capped at 99 or difficult to earn
- 🎮 Jerky/unresponsive villager movement controls
- 🔧 Tutorial lacks clear guidance for new players
- 👥 Limited population cap (50-90) prevents full completion
- 🎯 Love Shack building mechanic frequently glitches

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Game deletes all progress when closing app
- Save files disappear without user deletion
- Game crashes during tutorial and early gameplay
- Villagers freeze when building Love Shack
- Master Builder challenge causes villager glitches/teleportation
- Eternal nursing bug - mothers never stop nursing
- Tech points won't accumulate above 99
- Game resets after completing specific puzzles
- Villagers don't age properly or die unexpectedly
- Duplicate heathens appear at end game
- Speed power-up causes villager teleportation
- Game crashes when paused and exited
- Heathen blocking prevents access to food sources
- Villagers refuse to work on assigned tasks
- Free version progress doesn't transfer to paid version
- Population limit prevents achieving 100 villagers goal

**Most requested features**

- Update sprites to be less scary/unsettling
- Add in-game pause button without menu access
- Increase maximum population limit above 90
- Allow all villagers to pick up special items, not just children
- Add zoom in/out functionality
- Implement faster tech point earning system
- Add purchasable tech points for struggling players
- Reduce nursing time for mothers
- Add heathen mover power-up
- Allow customization of villager appearances
- Create Virtual Villagers 6
- Add ability to revive dead villagers with youth restoration
- Implement rapid time-skip feature for real-life obligations
- Add more housing/building options
- Improve character personality and dialogue

## Newest reviews (15 of 101)

### 4/5 — Good game, but the sprites scare me

*2022-07-15, version 1.2.0*

This game is very good, how I can see them in my computer, but the sprites scare me. I've only just realized that the sprites in this game are made with CGI, and the faces scare scare the heck out of me. I know this isn’t your latest game, but I'm asking you to update the sprites so they’re less scary to look at. Anyway, I hope you’ll make more games because they are entertaining. Byeee ✌️

### 3/5 — I love it but...

*2021-04-14, version 1.2.0*

I love this game but I keep getting to like the 5th generation and then it glitches. My villagers will be nursing and then the time never goes down but my villagers age and die. I just wanna finish the game.

### 4/5 — Love it BUT

*2019-01-24, version 1.2.0*

I have played this over and over for years now.  But recently the game deletes all progress and you have to start over.  If you have paused games it will delete the game you are playing and go to a paused game then that will delete itself.  I think there is a bug of some kind.  As I paid to get this game I hope they fix it it’s very very annoying.  I have all the games and game four does this too. I don’t play the origins 2 game as it was too slow, 2 hard to manipulate the villagers physically like pick them up and move them, and they refused to stay on task when you were away. I’m hoping the bugs in the older games aren’t to force us to play the newer game. I gave it up even though I spent real money on it as it just isn’t as good as the older games.

### 2/5 — Don’t buy it!

*2018-07-26, version 1.2.0*

I wanted a bigger population, so I bought it for $1.99. Bad idea! Cause of course I’d have to start over, which wouldn’t be so bad. I gotten pretty far in the lite game so I knew what to do. But EVERY TIME, I close out of the game, it would WIPE my progress and would have me START ALL OVER AGAIN!!! Ive restarted my game 4 times in the past 2 days!! I love the idea of the game, but it’s not worth it if it losses all of my progress and makes me restart EVERY TIME I close game!!!!! Think you can fix it???

### 2/5 — Why do I have to start all over after buying the full version

*2018-07-16, version 1.2.0*

Love the game but, why do I have to start all over again! I don’t want to start all over....

### 3/5 — I'm so mad.

*2015-04-18, version 1.0.0*

So everything is going fine the game is fun and it takes me a little over a week to nearly finish all of the puzzles and everything and convert the chief and BAM! For no apparent reason I open my game and it's asking me to name my tribe, what does this mean? It means it erased all of my game data and I'm so frustrated because it took me forever to get that far and I never clicked the restart button. This should be fixed.

### 2/5 — Nooooooo!

*2015-02-23, version 1.0.0*

Make scary heatens meditate for a while, because after bees go away,that scary heaten that was guarding the lab or noni, is ruining the game,PLEASE ADD A heaten mover powerup,to get it,you must convert 1 heaten and a 300 powerup max cuase the powerup in 250pts

### 3/5 — HELP PLEASE

*2014-08-04, version 1.0.0*

I have the lightning power but can't get the scary red heathens away for anything so my ppl just run away. Please help

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2014-06-24, version 1.0.0*

You should be able to bring back the dead in the mausoleum and grant youth to corpses so they don't die right away once u bring them back again other then that love the game

### 4/5 — Somewhat good

*2014-06-21, version 1.0.0*

This game needs to have a max population higher than 90 if the challenge is to get 100 there shouldn't be a max population. I just finished the game and this is the only thing that bugged me.

### 4/5 — Amaz'in

*2014-05-07, version 1.0.0*

It was a really great game, that took time to play. It also wasn't as repetitive like some other Last Day Of Work games are, such as virtual families out dream home. A few bugs which were annoying. Biggest problem was eternal nursing which happened to my three youngest girls at the start of the game, no time warp or grant youth? Overall I found the game very entertaining and addictiting well worth the money! Keep making great games like this!😝

### 5/5 — Awesome!

*2014-04-23, version 1.0.0*

I played it on the computer when I was very very little and now I can play on my iPad! I love the game but I think it would be better if you could zoom in and out.

### 2/5 — Badly flawed. Stick to the computer version

*2014-04-11, version 1.0.0*

For no apparent reason they limited the population on the ipad to only 50 people. Without the 90 villagers available on the PC version, you are forever prevented from achieving the top god powers. Why on earth they'd change the population numbers without equally adjusting the energy requirements is mind boggling. Why did I pay and devote thus much time for what has now proven to be only part of a game? What a disappointment. Also, for all ipad vv games they need to implement a rapid pause without having to go to the menu (the equivalent of the space bar on the computer).

### 4/5 — Really good

*2014-03-30, version 1.0.0*

I really like this game, it's a bit frustrating at the start because I don't know where to get food for the villagers. I like being a god in this game! Please make another game!

### 4/5 — Totems

*2014-03-21, version 1.0.0*

How do I get to dismantle the knowing totem bcuz my people keep running from the scary heathens

## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated)

### 1/5 — Disappointed

*2022-03-06, version 1.2.0*

The first 4 are fantastic. You can skip this one

### 1/5 — Seriously?

*2021-01-17, version 1.2.0*

The game UI is terrible. First time I try it since the review were positive. Who writes these? Terrible. Stay away from it.

### 1/5 — Terrible

*2018-04-16, version 1.2.0*

I love this game but something terrible keeps happening. Basically the first time I played I got very far and all was good until one day I go back onto the game and it just wiped everything. So I start again and this time I am basically finished...until I log back a few minutes after closing the app and it’s wiped everything. I think I’ll just delete it. So sick of the trouble.not worth it

### 1/5 — My saved game dissapeared :(

*2015-09-14, version 1.0.0*

I didnt accidently delete it, but i left the game and came back and it was gone. Happened twice

### 1/5 — Doesn't work!!! :(

*2014-07-02, version 1.0.0*

I can't even finish the tutorial b/c my villagers will NOT build the freaking "love shack". I thought maybe they had to finish the granary first or something, but finishing that didn't help either. I was hoping that it was just the tutorial that was bugged but after starting the game over several times w/ & w/o the tutorial it seems that the whole game is bugged by this love shack thing. :(no matter how many times I move my villagers onto the love shack they start to build it for a few seconds & then just start walking away (even tho there action line say "building love shack) & they never return.

### 1/5 — Christard Fantasy

*2013-12-24, version 1.0.0*

This was transparently designed by ignorant rural white male Christians, and I cannot possibly think of a single other group on Earth who would not be offended. It is how fundamentalists desperately wish their history was, and may even be stupid enough to think truly is.

It may be concealed ridicule of religion, but the inherent bafflement at anything scientific or archeological makes it highly doubtful. It could be temporarily amusing to atheist theologians, but otherwise has very little merit for anyone with an IQ above two digits.

### 1/5 — Hate VV5

*2013-03-05, version 1.0.0*

Worst one in the series.  No pause button in game, must go to options to pause.  Red guys cannot be moved without higher level powers meanwhile your villagers starve.  Totems block everything, which is the point, but if the red guys are immovable on the food totem, you're left to hunt mushrooms.  Boring!!  Save your money, buy the other four.

### 1/5 — Urg

*2012-07-25, version 1.0.0*

Um this game is impossible to play because the people die way to fast. You have to play this game all day and night so they don't die I left my game for 3 hours and 17 (all my people) DIED!!!!!!!!! Is there some trick to play this game?

### 1/5 — Frustrated!!!

*2012-04-29, version 1.0.0*

Really annoyed with this game. I am earning ZERO tech points. I have re-started 2 new games and I earn nothing. I'm going to try and uninstall and reinstall the game next. The free VV Origins doesn't have this issue. I earn tech points as my villagers work. I just can't move forward without the tech points. Bummer!! Update - Uninstalled and reinstalled - but same crap. I want my money back!!!! No tech points means no forward movement.

### 1/5 — RascalS and skin

*2012-01-12, version 1.0.0*

Do you know how hard it is to put up with one rascal running around and messing up everything you do? So why the hell are there 2 rascals in my game?! And honestly if you're going to make all the villagers caucasian and not put other skin tones in the game, then don't give them names like simba, Kenya and SWAHILI etc - i mean really, Wth?

## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated)

### 5/5 — Love it!

*2017-10-26, version 1.2.0*

I am in love with this game and I absolutely adore the idea of the player being a god. The only things I would suggest is give the characters more personality and maybe make the overall look of the game more fun? Maybe one day be able to customise their looks? Again, those are just suggestions. Other than that, amazing work and I absolutely love it!

### 5/5 — I used to play the free version

*2016-08-04, version 1.0.0*

I used to play the free version of each of these, but because this one was in particularly good, I bought it. The people who made the game obviously deserve the $

### 5/5 — Helpful

*2015-12-12, version 1.0.0*

To never run out of noni, you place the bee power. It regenerates the noni

### 5/5 — Amazing App

*2015-07-28, version 1.0.0*

This is an amazing app!😄 It's especially fun to take care of your villagers like they're your own children. The puzzles can be challenging, (especially the blocking totem), but it's incredibly satisfying to complete them. Even if you have completed all of the puzzles and trophies, the game does not get boring. Right now I have at least 25 cute kids running arson in my village.😛 I'm not sure why people are saying that you can only have 50 villagers in your village. I have 90 villagers, and I got a notification that I cannot get any more (I am using my iPad) To get a larger population, you must fully research all the categories in the tech shop 😕

### 5/5 — Love it!!

*2015-07-06, version 1.0.0*

This game is great, not a waste of money at all!

### 5/5 — Take time off and please update like v.f

*2015-02-15, version 1.0.0*

I just want like 1 update at least like in app purchases for tech for people who really struggle just anything u think will make the game better

### 5/5 — One Time Buy

*2015-01-05, version 1.0.0*

I love this game because you don't have to buy anything extra. No stupid gems, coins, or diamonds. Fun little adventure.

### 5/5 — Please make virtual villagers 6!!

*2015-01-04, version 1.0.0*

Please make another!

### 5/5 — Best Game Ever!!

*2014-07-13, version 1.0.0*

This is really good!! I love the heathens. I want to see what Virtual Villagers 6 would be like!!

### 5/5 — Awesome game!

*2014-07-08, version 1.0.0*

I'm really loving the game! Great to play if you don't have wifi! Download it!

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