Virtual Families Our New Home

I loved the original game, but this one feels a bit soulless. It has a feature i always wanted, the customizable outfits, but that’s the only improvement i really see. I get an emergency every freaking day if I clear the old one and it’s annoying. You have to pay 2000 coins to clear it and if you don’t you can’t build or upgrade the house! It’s especially annoying when you’re trying to save coins to make the house look better. And now I want to uninstall the game because the family I’ve been playing since the start has just had its last heir die after not being able to have kids! The game makes it way low of a chance to have kids!! She was 26 or smth and her spouse was 24 and they failed to have a kid?! Then in their 30s, 40s, 50s, and 60s! In the start I’d have 4 to max kids but all my newer gens have 1-3 kids!! Now that my last heir has died I just don’t want to play anymore unless there’s a way for her to be revived but I don’t see that being added without a paywall and I’m to broke for that. Oh yea, a lot of cool new items are locked behind paywalls, it’d be nice if there was side quests to try and get them like have your guys cook x times, earn x money, ect pr be able to buy it.

I’ve been playing the VV/VF games since I was 10 and I’m 24 now, I have nothing but love for them. This newest installment shows a lot of promise and there’s tons innovation like letting you build your own house from the ground up and having a whole neighborhood to look after but unfortunately this game at the moment is a glitchy mess. First the placement of rooms, windows, and doors is horrifying! You can’t rotate rooms, remove windows, or move the placement of doors. This leads to awkward routing, windows in the internal rooms of the house, and a door leading to the outside in your literal bathroom! Being able to place doors yourself needs to be at the absolute top of your list for the next update. Also placement of objects is glitchy, counters don’t touch the walls, inability to place towel holders, and your toilet shrinking in size when you try to change its direction, it’s all so silly. Also I’ve had a creepy glitch where all my family members upon being adopted get these ugly red/pink eyes that are unsettling to look into. Please focus on fixing building tools and maybe even adding more interaction between family members. In the earlier VF games there was movie nights, parents encouraging children to brush their teeth, and calling everyone to sit down for a nice meal. VF communities makes everyone feel like roommates living together. Once again my review comes with nothing but love, y’all made my childhood but I also know you can do a lot better!

So in previous games there were certain aspects that made the game more enjoyable and more worth playing- having to buy groceries and medicine. The flea market so you could get things on sale, you could cook for your family and place them at the table to make them eat (can’t do that in this yet and my kids just starve until they are old enough to cook, even if I can get an adult to set the table nobody will eat) can change their careers and actually had to log some time to get their careers higher level. it made it so you’d actually want to play it a few times a day, make sure your little people are good! Currently I don’t have any real reason to play it everyday. I just kinda wait until my people are old, log in occasionally to collect their gold and start a new family. Sometimes my people get stuck with certain bars like hygiene at 0 and even when I make them shower it won’t go up, OR they refuse to shower I do love how the kids don’t immediately leave when they are 18, building your own home is super fun! the contests are a cool concept along with the neighborhoods! Great features. I can see the game is still being developed so I will continue playing I just hope to see some of the old features make a come back in this game to make it more enjoyable.