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Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children

Last Day of Work · 2008-05-12

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 12, 2008 (Mac), May 12, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Mar 03, 2009 (iOS)

Somewhere in the Pacific, there was a beautiful island, called Isola, where lost villagers made their home. The castaways explored their small part of the island and knew every corner. Only a mysterious cave had not been carefully explored.

Virtual Villagers: The Lost Children is a Casual and Simulation game released in 2008, priced at $9.99 with an estimated 0 to 20,000 owners and a Very Positive sentiment based on 93% of 88 reviews.— census verdict as of 2026-10-08

93%
positive of 88 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
64/100
IGDB user rating (5 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 9 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 36% of 26,086 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 3.5k–7.0k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 88 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
5520132026Week of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2014-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek 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 2020-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2022-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-10-01: 1 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$23.74$0.002015-01-012020-01-042015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-01-28 — best price $13.492015-04-04 — best price $15.952015-04-20 — best price $23.742015-04-29 — best price $15.952015-05-07 — best price $15.952015-06-03 — best price $15.952015-09-15 — best price $14.952015-12-18 — best price $3.732016-02-23 — best price $7.472016-04-04 — best price $14.952016-06-17 — best price $7.472016-11-30 — best price $14.952017-02-14 — best price $7.472017-05-20 — best price $7.472017-07-17 — best price $14.952017-11-22 — best price $7.472017-12-04 — best price $14.952018-01-19 — best price $7.472018-03-19 — best price $14.952018-05-04 — best price $7.472018-06-04 — best price $14.952018-08-24 — best price $7.472018-08-30 — best price $7.472018-09-24 — best price $14.952018-10-26 — best price $7.472018-12-01 — best price $14.952019-02-15 — best price $7.472019-03-11 — best price $14.952019-05-24 — best price $7.472019-07-01 — best price $14.952019-08-09 — best price $7.472019-10-12 — best price $14.952019-12-20 — best price $7.472020-01-04 — best price $14.95
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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