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Virtual Villagers: A New Home

Last Day of Work · 2008-05-12

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

Releases: Mar 24, 2011 (Mac), Jul 18, 2006 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 2012 (iOS)

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.

Virtual Villagers: A New Home is a Casual and Simulation game released in 2008, priced at $9.99, with an estimated 0 .. 20,000 owners and a Very Positive review sentiment (90% of 194 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-08

90%
positive of 194 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
70/100
critic score (1 outlets, IGDB)
60/100
IGDB user rating (9 ratings)
platinum
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 20 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~3/week).
  • · Review velocity up 5% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 23% of 26,086 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 7.8k–16k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 194 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $2.49 at Steam (2012-11-22)via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
6620122026Week of 2012-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2014-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 6 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerFamily Sharing

1 supported languages: English

Player tags

CasualGod GameColony SimSimulation

Census log

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

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Similarity via IGDB.

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