# Virtual Villagers: Origins — user reviews > 421 indexed App Store user reviews of Virtual Villagers by LDW Software, LLC, rated 4.50/5 from 2,611 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/virtual-villagers-origins/id500868442/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/virtual-villagers-origins/id500868442.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,939 · 4★ 328 · 3★ 134 · 2★ 73 · 1★ 137 ## What do users think of Virtual Villagers? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎮 Fun and addictive gameplay - 🕰️ Nostalgic experience - 🕵️‍♀️ Unique and engaging puzzles **Cons** - 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs - ⏱️ Slow progress and long wait times - 💰 Expensive in-app purchases - 📺 Intrusive ads **Commonly reported bugs** - Food and resources disappearing randomly - Villagers getting stuck or not performing tasks - Progress being reset after crashes **Most requested features** - Improved graphics and visuals - Longer lifespan for villagers - More interactive features for villagers - Ability to pause the game ## Newest reviews (13 of 421) ### 4/5 — Golden Child *2026-06-02* A coitada da Golden Child fica com 5 anos pra sempre, não cresce, tadinha. ### 3/5 — Original was great *2026-03-27* Great game. However adding in game purchases kills it. Pay to win sucks. Just want the original ### 2/5 — Used to love this game *2025-12-01, version 1.0.3* Not sure what changed but I can't get them get have kids or actually do anything. It wasn't this hard to get them to do it successfully do stuff when I played this game as a kid. I've restarted twice now. Now I'm starting to think it's all a scam to buy tech points. Whatever. ### 4/5 — Good game to play *2025-11-28, version 1.0.3* This game is very fun to play, however I wish the map was full screen and the baby’s did not take that long to grow over time. Other then That this game is supper fun and is a good way for me to wast time when I have nothing to do. ### 3/5 — Hoping for a update *2025-11-09, version 1.0.3* I used to love this game now it shuts down every 20 seconds pls update it ### 2/5 — Bored *2025-10-09, version 1.0.3* Takes forever to get any tech even when 10 master scientists are researching. Have to look up puzzles online just to solve them. 40+ people just basically eating and walking around. I uninstalled because I got bored. ### 4/5 — Great game *2025-10-02, version 1.0.3* Great game and exactly how I remember. Only there’s a glitch that sometimes makes you have to start over and is quite annoying at the best of times. You pause it at night (or other times but esp at night). And it unpauses itself in the night and uses all your food and kills some or all of your villagers. I would like that glitch fixed ### 2/5 — bug *2025-09-15, version 1.0.3* good game i just cant make anymore progress because whenever i do anything it’ll crash ### 3/5 — Love this game as a kid, but keeps crashing after a while *2025-07-21* Wish there was an update for us to be able to keep playing on iOS but I might have to buy it on steam and play on my computer because after the first threshold, the game keeps crashing. After checking on my villagers after a night, it crash and reloads the same the food was at 0, random amount of ppl die, the hut is built, my tech points go random, it doesn’t save that I bought another farm tech, and there random kids and come up as different ages. Sad because I loved this game growing up and just remembered about it recently! Was so happy to see I could still play it again for nostalgia and finally able to beat the game. Unfortunate this game got forgotten :c ### 3/5 — It crashes everytime *2025-05-26* this game brought many old memories from my childhood, but it crashes each time. I enter it maybe because the game is very old and it doesn’t work on newer iPhones. I hope they fix this bug. ### 2/5 — App Keeps Crashing Solution! **Edited Review** *2025-05-21* **I figured out that if you put your phone into airplane mode while playing it won’t crash. I think it has to do with it trying to connect to the App Store for in app purchases or something** I love this game. Played it when I was a kid like 20 years ago. I still love it. This app though, once I got past like a population of 17 the app starts crashing like crazy. I logged in this morning and they had started having babies by themselves and there were two island events. All the women had babies (including twins) and the population was at 22 and then the app crashed and all of the points that had accumulated overnight and the babies vanished and the population went back to 17. It started crashing yesterday after I bought some tech points and I lost some progress and tech points after it crashed. :( ### 2/5 — Crashes now *2025-04-13, version 1.0.3* I used to play this game a long time ago back in high school and it was a lot of fun, today when I downloaded onto my phone it can only be played for two minutes before the app crashes. If they fix that, the game is four stars, easily, but until then two is all I can give it. ### 4/5 — Is it or just me? *2025-04-10, version 1.0.3* I played this game like 10 years ago, back in junior high school. I loved this game because it was unique for its time! When I came back it’s like the game got forgotten about and downgraded…..for an example the characters never looked like that . It’s just sad to see an amazing game not being kept up 💔. Hopefully it will get the love and attention it deserves again! ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Virtual villagers *2026-07-16, version 1.0.3* While playing the game it will blip off screen and i have to start over not cool im disappointed ### 1/5 — Please update the glitches *2026-07-15* The game just automatically stops working and your progress disappears as well. Please work on this ### 1/5 — Game keeps crashing *2026-07-03, version 1.0.3* Game runs for maybe 5 mins and just keeps crashing at saving :( ### 1/5 — Can’t Purchase Tech Points *2026-03-22, version 1.0.3* For some reason it won’t allow me to purchase tech points but shows the price in US dollars next to them. Can this please be fixed? ### 1/5 — Regardless of Purchase, Game Crashes *2025-08-24* I saw some other reviews talking about how they spent money and then after their games wouldn’t stop crashing. Mine is crashing without spending a penny, and when I sign back in, it reverts the game further back each time, so all my work gets increasingly reversed the more the game crashes… or if I try to do tasks like make babies the game crashes as soon as the couple heads through the door, but I don’t know if that is the main issue for the crash. The game just can’t run for more than 30 seconds, it refuses to. ### 1/5 — Keeps Crashing *2025-07-14, version 1.0.3* Unfortunately the game keeps crashing for me on iOS. ### 1/5 — Crashes *2025-05-22, version 1.0.3* I would love to play other Virtual Villagers games after this one, but I’m not going to spend money on something that keep crashing. LDW, if you could please fix the crashes, that would be great! For more detail, I just bought level 2 farming and the game crashes when all 5 adults are gathering crops. It doesn’t save the food they collected either. ### 1/5 — unplayable *2025-05-13, version 1.0.3* Unplayable, keeps crashing without saving progress ### 1/5 — Game keeps crashing *2025-04-23, version 1.0.3* I love this game it’s very nostalgic for me but at some point in the game i always crash and it doesn’t save. ### 1/5 — Hoping for an update *2025-03-17, version 1.0.3* I used to love this game now it shuts down every 20 seconds pls update it ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — THE BEST GAME EVER *2026-03-18, version 1.0.3* It is sooooooo fun i could not stop playing. I was even playing when my tablet and phone where on the charger!😂 you can have the villagers breed to get a bigger population and you can make a bunch of other things to! thank you for reading have a good day😁 ( if you dont get this game i will find you…..) ### 5/5 — Love this game *2026-03-13* I don’t understand how people don’t understand this game, lol. I read the reviews and people say their villagers are starving, or getting sick. So for those of you who don’t understand, I will try to make this simple. First, pick a villager to research, put him at the research table. At first it will say he/she doesn’t have success. But just put him back at table and wait. Then after a few tries it will say he improves at research. Next, pick a villager to heal and put him on the cactus. (There are a couple spots but I picked the cactus because it’s the easiest to see.) Do the same thing with this villager. Put him on the cactus and wait for it to say he improved. You will probably have do it several times. Next, put a male villiager (over 18) on a female villager. They will go in the hut and try to make babies. Last, but most important, put a villager on the crops. He will automatically start farming. When your villager click the “details” button and pick farmer, or healer, or researcher, whatever you want them to keep doing over and over. But even though you click that, you still have to start them to doing it like I explained earlier. When I first downloaded the game, I had a full village and like 26,000 food in the first few days. It’s very easy once you figure out how to make food and babies. And when someone is sick, just pick any villager and put him on sick villager. Healed!!! Have fun, I hope I helped some of you. ### 5/5 — My favorite childhood game *2025-10-14, version 1.0.3* This was my favorite game that my mom had on her computer when I was little! I played all of them when each one came out. I was so excited to find them in the App Store! And, honestly, it still holds up. 10/10 ### 5/5 — A long time comming *2025-09-15, version 1.0.3* I’ve played this a long time ago. However I was a kid and was never interested in it too much. So I mainly peaked while my dad was playing. I always loved the 5th game that was about tribes. But anyways. I recommend this game completely. The only tip I’d give (don’t look any further than this if you just arnt interested in tips) is research of food should come first. ### 5/5 — Actually a blast *2025-09-01, version 1.0.3* The game is super fun. I, of course, looked up the puzzle solutions. Make sure you put points into science early on! Have most villagers focus on it! The points you need are doubled, but the game is really fun. And it can either go on forever, or have a definite ending. It’s a lovely game. ### 5/5 — SOMEONE PLEASE SAVE THIS GAME!😭 *2025-06-04, version 1.0.3* I have played this game since I was a kid! It has SO much potential. It keeps crashing & I don’t think anyone keeps up w this game anymore. 😭💔 I am so sad! I keep losing all my progress. ### 5/5 — Remastered *2025-04-07* I believe a remastered version of this VV would be better than any of the following ones as this is definitely the best out of the 6 VV. I don’t particularly like the ones that followed this one, yet every year I come back and play this one again. There is nothing to fault this other than once you complete it there’s nothing to do, I would like if once you completed it a few of your villagers found another uninhabited area of the island and you started again just with a slightly different lay out and different things to build. Perhaps building a ship at one point and attempting to sail to another island, having to sustain life of the boat for a period of time. That is a game I would definitely buy. Thanks to anyone that reads this :) ### 5/5 — Love *2025-02-24, version 1.0.3* I have loved this game for over a decade I played it with my grandma on pc in the early 2000s, such a hidden gem. ### 5/5 — Good game *2025-02-23, version 1.0.3* But when I was putting the villagers to clean the well, but they weren’t ### 5/5 — I finally completed the game! *2025-01-05, version 1.0.3* I can’t remember how many times I’ve tried but I finally did it, I am so happy, thank you for making this game and keeping it in the App Store ❤️ --- *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 2026-09-01.*