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Virtual Villagers - The Secret City

Last Day of Work · 2008-05-28

Steam

CasualSimulation

Modes: Single player

Releases: May 28, 2008 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Apr 03, 2008 (Mac), Oct 31, 2009 (iOS)

Embark on a journey with a group of villagers in search of a new part of the island to populate. Land on the hidden shores of the northern side of Isola and explore what was once a secret city. Find new sources of food to nourish your villagers and help them rebuild the remains of this mysterious city. Who lived here before?

Virtual Villagers - The Secret City is a Casual Simulation game released in 2008, priced at $9.99, with a Very Positive review sentiment (92% of 147 reviews).— census verdict as of 2026-10-08

92%
positive of 147 reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
70/100
IGDB user rating (4 ratings)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 14 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~2/week).
  • · Review velocity up 8% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Top 27% of 26,086 Casual games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.9k–12k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 147 total reviews — how this is computed.

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

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
4420132026Week of 2013-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2013-12-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2014-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2015-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2015-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2016-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2016-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2016-12-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2017-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2017-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-01-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-06-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2021-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2021-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-01-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2022-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 2 positive
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$2.792015-01-012025-01-012015-01-01 — best price $9.992015-07-10 — best price $6.992016-01-04 — best price $6.992023-07-03 — 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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Similarity via IGDB.

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