A Great Sequel!
Wed Aug 27 2025 brenlikesbrenI’ve been playing the virtual families franchise for over a decade and I gotta say this is the best they’ve done in a LONG TIME! I loved the og & VF2 but vf3 felt like a let down, VFC is such a win after that!!! They really approved upon a lot and I love how more freedom you have with building and decorating! I love the changing communities, the interaction with neighbors, how your player can actually work with a baby! I hope to see pets added to the game or maybe i’m just not far enough into it yet, they really help complete the family home feel. The store is such an improvement, I like how you don’t have to constantly re purchase the same items but was a little sad to see the flea market/sale section disappear, maybe a new version of it will come later? Very excited to see what future updates come, the game is already so fun and lots more to do compared to its previous games, definitely a lot they could do! so grateful to the developers & the whole team, they really did an amazing job ♥️
It has good bones
Mon Sep 01 2025 Distilled_aguaI’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!
Lots of Potential!!
Fri Aug 15 2025 MackiiiieVirtual families games have always been a fun way for me to kill time since I was in middle school! I love the decorating concept etc. but the game is still in its really early stages and can be very glitchy. The main annoying glitch is furniture clipping, so if you put something on a table it will clip after some time and all of the things you put on a table etc just disappear under the table. It can be pretty frustrating and it happens almost immediately if you go to paint the walls or floors etc. so it'd be great if that can be fixed so furniture stays where it is put including on tables. Additionally the game can glitch in general I had it happen where blur effect stays in an area, babies that are suppose to be born glitch away if you move them occasionally etc. more furniture options would be great too but again I know it's still early! Lots of potential and so far fun but the glitches can really be frustrating at times. ALSO the contests are so glitched anytime I go to vote it's the same two images FOR EVERY-PERSON. Makes me feel likes it's bot accounts? But makes no sense how every person uploaded same image with same people etc.
It’s good but it’s lacking some aspects.
Sat Aug 23 2025 ag112100So 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.
Bugs
Wed Aug 27 2025 NiN!3000I like the game a lot because I enjoyed virtual families 3, but there are a few things that are a little buggy like random doors you can't fix, not being able to rotate rooms to your desired liking, the people constantly get stuck on nothing, or there aren't certain walls in the bathroom where you'd be able to place towels or mirrors etc, only one person eats at the dinner table when a meal is made and sometimes it isn't even the person that made the meal, there are no pets, and the plot is kind of small I don't know if it gets bigger when you move but I can't tell as I'm still in a low level lol, and the parents sleep in the kids bed room, when they are using the rest room or dirty dancing the blur is a little excessive the way it stretches when you move the screen or whatever, the dad is also putting on making but I can't judge... and again no pets😔😔 (I want a fur baby so badlyyy) but I didn't make this review to complain I actually like the game a lot I just know it would be a lot more fun with more opportunities!! Take care!
Has potential but needs a lot of work
Fri Aug 08 2025 CryptidAquariusSo I would like to start with some praise. I love the neighborhood aspect. I like interacting with the npcs, doing community projects, and seeing them all do weird things. I love being able to customize the layout of the house and decorate how I want. Mostly. However. I will criticize actual gameplay. There just isn’t anything to do between decorating. And events are slow. Maybe it picks up more or it’s faster for some other people? But I’ve had the game open for nearly an hour before hoping to get my person married and not a single popup occurred. She is 42 and still unmarried with no children because we can’t afford adoption that isn’t guaranteed and proposals don’t come through while I’m away like with other VF games. So I guess this lineage will die out? I don’t know. I’m conflicted. I’m curious but it’s just so… boring right now. It could definitely be a winning game for me if there was more or if pop ups remained, similar to emails in VF 3 or otherwise.
Glitchy, much less to do than previous games
Sun Aug 31 2025 Zairii HengI love the Virtual Families series, and the idea of communities seemed interesting, but upon playing the game I ran into to a series of glitches and issues. One being that part of the screen was cut off making gameplay feel janky, another that when making a baby a blur occurred and would zoom in on random objects until I restarted my game.
The sounds for praising and scolding have been scrapped, as well as the visuals showing I have applied it, making it hard to tell if the effect worked or not. Food is also now invisible and you can’t purchase it. Children won’t come to eat when parents make food.
Lastly, in the community, I expected there to be more interactions available, but it seems the only purpose for other homes is to collect collectibles. There are no other interactions with neighbors. Overall, it felt as if the game’s development was rushed and many small but important features I loved were scrapped. This feels like a project in the making, not a real game.
Great new game but glitchy
Thu Aug 28 2025 Emmypess22I know this came out pretty recently so I understand the game still has bugs. Little things like proposals and life events tend to glitch here and there, and room placement and item placement can sometimes block interactions even though it’s not blocked by anything. I like that you no longer have to worry about buying groceries, just keeping the income up so they can afford the groceries themselves. I wish there was a better way to send them to do career stuff, they kind of autonomously use their phone or leave to work which is great but less immersive. I do miss the career rooms and upgrades. I would like for them to also pick the baby up optionally rather than it being stuck in the crib. I think overall with time the game will get better as long as the devs keep working on improving it.
Bug in family tree
Mon Sep 01 2025 tayb102The game has been fun, but I keep coming across a bug where once my children age up and marry, they either disappear or their names and faces change. My first game, all my children moved out and got married, and when I went to look at my family tree to see what grandchildren I had, every single child on the family tree was a completely different person. Their spouses they married were the same, but not the original children. I chose to restart, because I didn’t want to wait to start a new gen with children I didn’t recognize, and on my second play through, it just deleted the kids off the family tree when they aged up. It kept the spouses they married though, and said “single” in the tab, essentially erasing the existence of the child. Super odd. Frustrating because I feel like the work I put into the families doesn’t matter once they’re old enough to leave the house.
Hard to Progress!
Sat Jul 26 2025 ryleewagner_I want to preface this by saying i’ve played every single last day of work game for YEARS! love this company! i know that this game is obviously in the early stages so i wont comment on bugs or the fact that there’s not a ton to do in this game. however, one thing i am noticing is that it is very, very hard to get anywhere! in order to get to the first house (besides the tutorial) its 4000 coins, which is 100 ads! and thats if i dont spend any money. the salaries are also in the single digits which makes it worse. also, the prices of things severely mismatch the amount of coins you earn in the game as a player who doesn’t spend money. this makes the game boring, because ive been waiting to progress for days now and trying to watch some ads, but 100 is ridiculously high! hope you can raise salaries and earnings, or make the costs of things lower.
