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Virtual Families

Last Day of Work · 2009-05-06

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: May 06, 2009 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 22, 2009 (Mac), Jun 03, 2009 (iOS)

From the developer of the smash-hit Virtual Villagers series comes the new casual game that captures the drama of life—Virtual Families! Virtual Families is a casual family sim that runs in true-real time. Adopt and nurture a needy person in the computer. Help them meet a mate, and start a family.

88%
positive of 77 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
60/100
IGDB user rating (3 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 11 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity up 10% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 38% of 26,107 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.1k–6.2k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 77 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $1.99 at GreenManGaming (2013-10-01)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
3320122026Week of 2012-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2012-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$12.95$2.592015-01-012025-01-012015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-01-02 — best price $2.592015-01-09 — best price $12.952015-07-10 — best price $6.992016-01-04 — best price $6.992016-08-06 — best price $11.792016-10-18 — best price $10.572018-04-20 — best price $12.952018-07-17 — best price $10.362018-08-02 — best price $12.952020-03-24 — best price $11.662020-07-16 — best price $12.952023-07-03 — best price $3.492023-07-18 — best price $6.992024-12-21 — best price $2.792025-01-01 — best price $6.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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