Virtual Villagers: A New Home is a simulator developed by Last Day of Work, released 18 July 2006 on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What Virtual Villagers: A New Home is
Virtual Villagers: A New Home is a simulator game developed by Last Day of Work and released in 2006. It is available on iOS, Mac and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
Care for and nurture a tribe of little people by teaching them the basics of survival. They need to become farmers, builders, scientists, parents and make decisions about unpredictable 'island events'! Guide their day-to-day lives and help them explore and restore their new home. As your village grows and prospers, your villagers become curious about their mysterious new island home and the secrets it holds.
How it plays
It is played from a bird view / isometric perspective. Its themes are party. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
How it was received
Virtual Villagers: A New Home holds a critic score of 70 out of 100. That places it above 34% of the 2,882 rated simulator games in our database, which average 71. Games released in 2006 averaged 65, so it scored 5 points above the year average.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for Pentium III 500, 96 MB of RAM and 16MB of VRAM. At 0GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today.
What it launched against
Virtual Villagers: A New Home launched on 18 July 2006, within three weeks of Persona 3, FlatOut 2, Dead Rising and Prey. All of them reviewed better.
Released around the same time: Persona 3, FlatOut 2, Dead Rising, Prey.
Official trailer
Sourced from the publisher’s YouTube channel.
Screenshots
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