Virtual Families 3 Reviews

by WNerd15

These have to be the laziest, most unimaginative developers ever. Instead of a NEW VF version, they took VF2 and threw a few new things on top of it. The furniture is all the same. Ugliest furniture ever. The clothing is the same ugly stuff. The new things they added are all flawed or glitchy. They added a ghost girl, which is interesting at first. But 17 generations in, she’s still there. I found the doll about 5 gens in, but the event was interrupted by a burst pipe so the little people hopped around like fools instead of retrieving the doll. They added same sex marriage but then doubled the price of adoption. They finally added multiple races, but the women of color refuse to work! Was that on purpose?? The new house is large and awkward shaped. The furniture doesn’t sit well against the walls. The new curtains don’t fit the windows. And the little people are so boring. They smell the room, dry their feet, wish for stuff, adjust the poster, etc. Seriously?? It’s been years since VF2. You can’t come up with something better than drying feet? Why can’t they build their own furniture or make friends? They never evolve. The game never evolves. Why bother with a new game if you’re only going to put the most minimalist effort? I waited a while to give feedback to give it a chance to improve. But yeah I’m done with this game.

by Laneyocean

My friend and I use to play virtual families 2 in middle school and all I remember is us changing the times and dates on our phones to get more money. This game is based around everything costing WAY more money then ur little people make a day. My little character makes 90$ a day but a tv in the game cost 2 thousand dollars? The only way to get money in this game TRULY is by watching 10, 30 second annoying ads. A pool in the game cost 14 thousand coins? I mean I get it, u have to work up to it it’s the whole point of the game but it gets to a point where it’s like okay I’m bored bc everything cost way too much money and u can’t do much if u don’t have money. Just make things a little cheaper so things can actually MOVE in the game. It feels like such a long process. If things were cheaper then obtaining those things would be easier and the game would be more fun but like once u buy all the cheap career upgrades the only ones left cost 10k-14k which takes way too long to save up for and at that point why would I wanna waste all my money on that? It took me days if not weeks just to save that up. When I wanna play this game I wanna feel like it’s a game not real life where I’m stressed trying to buy things 😂

by Boi No Im A Gurl

So I’ve been a fan of v.Familys for awhile and it seems great but this one could use work, my first problem is the ghost girl 👧 it seems interesting but there’s not a lot of detail for her story we don’t know anything about her expect she 5 and she’s a ghost and looking for someone or something? The story of her could be so interesting! 🤩 all she needs is more of a story maybe we could interact with her? The mini people could maybe see the ghost and kinda freak out? Or we could know what she’s looking for. Second problem the character design I’m not a big fan of the designs now I don’t know if I’m just picky or if I have a logical problem with them no offense to the design workers you all did a wonderful job just not my type of character... Also the money it’s so hard to earn and all of the stuff is so expensive, also when u earn money and go off most likely it won’t be there if u get it back on same with children.... Now that I stated my bugs I will say what I really like about VirtualFamilies3 , I love how u can give the baby to the dad and mom it’s just so cute second I love how on the couch they look well normal while sitting on the couch not that it didn’t look awful in V.familys2 and 1 it just could have looked better also I love how the mini people have a mind of there own not just u controlling them even tho all 1 2 and 3 have them free I just really like the catch of it.

by River...

It’s difficult to make a baby, I’m tired of putting them together 50 times and no baby... Then 3hours later, I try again and they are never in the mood... I put them together so much it drains them... It’s frustrating and the baby boosters are not permanent you have to keep buying them which is expensive...I’m not spending no more money on this game, clearly the game is too greedy with you spending money it’s a waste... Everything already expensive so it’s whack game... I’m saving money instead of spending my money on this game from now on... On top of that, it’s hard to drag them to get stuff, while it’s on the circle it still doesn’t guarantee you’ll get the item before it’s gone... It’s been 10yrs in the game and the people haven’t had a baby since, I’m tired of mating them and it don’t look like I can evict them either which is dumb because I could evict the first set like I did before... I don’t need to adopt and don’t want to because I have a male and female... Also when a decent pair of clothes come to the discount store y’all make it off limits and that’s bullsh*t... I’ll never spend money again on the game ever since y’all can come in and switch and make it how y’all want to in order to force somebody to buy coins...

by Csdeprey

I grew up playing these games and just recently saw that this new third one has come out. I was really excited and downloaded it ASAP. I chose my person and started re-exploring everything. Now, I want to say everything is perfect, but unfortunately it isn’t. I feel like the house upgrades cost a LOT of coins that you will not have for a long time unless you buy coins from the store for real money. I was disappointed at this, because coins are spent very easily, especially if one of your friends gets sick- and let’s not forget about groceries. If something breaks, you can end up paying quite a bit as well. I am glad that there is an option to watch a couple videos a day in order to gain some extra coins, but unfortunately everything is priced so high I’m not getting to where I want to be :(

I would love it if things were placed at a cheaper price/it is easier to gain coins or there are more videos to watch. It would make things a lot more fun! I know it’s to encourage people to buy coins to make some profit to continue making this game great, but this would really help those who don’t wish/can’t afford to pay :)

I’m almost done with generation 1 and I’m sad to see my starting couple go, but I’ve got 6 kids to choose from to continue the legacy... I guess we’ll see who ends up inheriting everything! I’m looking forward to seeing the new updates with the pets!

by Myhoni

I like the fact that the creators of the games taught outside of the box by giving families pets cats dogs turtles rats etc. but I do have some complaints since the new update I have noticed some glitches. I go and look at my goals and it’s telling me that I haven’t completed the goals that I know I have completed. I’m more than 12 generations in and one of the first goals I completed with my very first family was having 12 kids and it’s telling me that I did not complete that goal but I can go back and look at the family map and see that I completed that goal. So now I have to achieve that goal again. And when I make my family cook them self dinners they sit down at the table and it glitches… it seems like they’re about to get up and then the system sit them back down at the table And it does that a couple times before they actually get up. Which is really weird because I like to make sure that my family is completely full so I make them sit down two times to eat instead of once therefore they can be completely full and but when I go back to sit them down the second time so they can be completely full the system glitches and won’t let them sit back down to eat. It will make them prepare another meal when there’s already a meal at the table to eat. So the new update comes with glitches that’s the only downside.

by Starryshii_

This is a fairly decent game. I like the fact that there is a little more diversity, with the same sex marriages, both parents being able to care for the child, and POC avatars. This series is my childhood, so my rating might be a bit bias, but I would like to talk about a few things. The first thing is the pricing. Everything is priced really high, so it’s almost impossible to upgrade everything in a short amount of time unless you buy money, which is really disappointing. Second, is the little ghost girl. She gets really annoying after a while because she doesn’t have a story, she can’t be interacted with, and she doesn’t let the player receive a reward for anything. She just spawns there and leaves. Everytime, she does the same action, so I stopped checking in on her. Third, special events. I haven’t played this particular game for long, but so far I haven’t gotten any special events. Those events being Adoption events, or Item events, which were fairly common in the second game and I was able to earn children and items that way. Those are the only complaints I wanted to make. Sorry for the long review. Thanks for the amazing game :)

by Ristindi

I absolutely love this game. I’ve been playing Virtual Families 2 for as long as I can remember, so I was very excited for this new game! I do have a few complaints/suggestions. If I leave VirtualFamilies3 and don’t completely exit out of it, I get an error message when I try to reopen it. So to fix this I have to completely exit VirtualFamilies3 on my device by swiping it out of the open tabs frame, and then I can play again. It’s also INCREDIBLY hard to earn coins. I like how the collectibles are worth a good amount and I like the “watch videos” option, but it’s still hard. I don’t like how when it’s time to look through marriage options, I can’t go back after I skip over someone. I didn’t realize I wouldn’t be able to go back the first time, and missed out on good options. I like how the characters are diverse, but I wish there was more of a variety. I had 6 kids and 4 looked exactly the same. I also wish there was more variety in the furniture. There’s a lot of furniture from the first game, and I wish there were more types and COLOR options. I like games that I can spend about 30 minutes to an hour on, but this game makes that difficult. There’s not much to do after making sure all the characters are taken care of. But overall, I really like the game! I also forgot to add in that it can be frustrating to have to perfectly place characters on collectibles in order to grab them. I wish they didn’t have to be placed DIRECTLY on top, because it’s hard to do.

by Falcon1027

This game is so fun and interesting and low key addictive. It’s way better than VF1 and VF2, there’s more diversity and acknowledgement. I just think there should be more activities for the families like going outside of the house. It’d be fun to send the family on vacations, letting parents and teenagers drive, seeing other friends, and giving the parents the option to leave the house for work instead of only having to work at home. It would also be cool if they had parties and events where they could invite friends over and family members/relatives could visit.

I also think the little ghost girl is a fun and new way to make the game interesting but there’s not a lot of story behind it and she only appears for like a few seconds. I like how in this version the parents can share caring for the child but I think the teens should care for them too so that way both of the parents can work at the same time. And for the babies there should be cribs so someone doesn’t always have to hold them. It would also be fun if the kids had phones to give it a more modern feeling.

Other than that I really like this game and enjoy playing it. I think these suggestions would make it more fun and realistic for players. Hopefully there could be a Virtual Families 4.

by MissBeccaB93

This game is fun for someone who likes the idea of growing their own little family. You don’t have to open VirtualFamilies3 a whole lot. Just make sure they have food, praise them to do their jobs, give medicine to sick ones, and get them to have babies. You can scold them for doing things you don’t want them to do, furnish their house, call for services like a plumber, exterminator, etc.

The things I don’t like are that the amount of money your family makes, you get at a very slow pace. I’m on generation 4 and still cannot afford a home upgrade. Also, just about every time I check on them, their toilet is clogged, ovens on fire, shower is clogged, etc. Everyday. It’s a bit much. One more thing. I chose my next generation to start with a daughter who loved running because I loved that she would always be running, even as a teenager. She did everything much faster. Although she kept that interest, as an adult, she does everything at normal speed which is really disappointing.

Despite my disappointments, this game is still fun and it does give you the opportunity to earn coins by watching ads. You can also buy coins with real money. The whole haunted house, spooky emails and phone calls are interesting. I’m not sure if I like it as much as virtual families 2 but it’s a little different, interesting, and fun.

by Jdndsbxbdb

I love everything about this game. Literally everything, I’ve been playing since I was little. But one thing I think needs changing is babies in general. IM TALKING A WHOLE BABY UPDATE!! The only things we can do with babies are pass them off to the other spouse, which is an upgrade from the first and second game, but i feel babies haven’t gotten enough love. I’m talking cribs, so that neither one of the parents has to hold the baby and they can do stuff with their other kids, (I understand they still can with the baby in their hands, but just to add to the gameplay) and so that both can work at the same time because u can’t work while holding a baby. Also, I feel that teens like 14/15 and up should be able to hold and care for the babies as well, it’ll be nice to see the family interacting all together because if two parents have a baby, their other kids celebrate, then go off and do what they want to do. There’s no family love for the babies in my opinion. Also maybe like baby toys and swaddles where u can place the parent with the child over and they can do interactions with the baby on the toy. (Should also work for teens if they have the baby as well) I feel like these changes, and the ones you can think of as well, will make gameplay SO MUCH BETTER. I won’t dread having to wait for the baby to age up to two so I can actually do things with them. I want to be able to do it right after the action “Trying to have a baby” LOL 😂😂 ‼️‼️PLEASE RESPOND‼️‼️

by HELLOBARBARA

I really enjoy this game. I’ve played v. Families 1&2 for quite some time. Although I do like v. Families 3 I wish there would be some changes. I wish you could change how your little person looked and maybe even what they like or dislike. I like the challenge of earning money but it may be a little too difficult. My little people hardly ever make enough money for upgrades or furniture costs. At this rate it will be a few years before I’m able to save up money to but a new room. Maybe you could add hobbies where you can sell what you make. Like selling baked goods if you want your hobby to be in the kitchen, write books in the office, or do woodworking or something in the workshop. Anything to make a steady flow of income. Just something where we can interact with them a bit more. I feel like after I feed them and do some laundry I have nothing else to do, and then I wait a few hours to do the same things over again. I also wish we could be able to make different meal options or the number of servings so we don’t have to waste any food.
I would really appreciate if you considered some of my thoughts. I really do love the game. I love how you can share the baby with both parents, the ghost girl, the phone, the option for more than one marriage proposal at a time, and how you can customize your house to a degree.
Thanks for reading this far!

by Eman D 123

I really like this game, but I would love it if you fixed these issues. My two real complaints, number 1 why is their no Muslim game characters like can we have a female with a headscarf/ hijab so it can be more relatable to the female Muslims who play this game. Also one other very important thing, it would be very good if you guys allowed us to connect with other players in the game, like for example we would be able to visit each others homes, chat with each other, share gifts and money with each other and travel together. The reason I say this is because the game can get kind of boring/ lonely when your not playing with others sometimes I don’t play for weeks because their are no other players with me to enjoy the game; so I just would leave my game for a while because of how lonely and boring it is playing alone with no one else to chat with. Honestly if you guys added these 2 new features that I mentioned earlier your game would probably become #1 on The AppStore, people would enjoy the game more because they can play with friends and we would really feel connected to the characters more if they became more diverse. I know me and millions of girls playing this are Muslim we would love it if you made a Muslim female character for us to relate with. Ok thank you I really hope you guys read this and will listen to my opinion. Thank you!

by QwertyQ1993

I’ve been playing the game for a while, and it’s been fun. Can sometimes get repetitive after a while, but it’s still a good way to spend free time. I’ve had a few issues recently though. A little over a week ago one of my little people went missing. Their action bar said they were swimming in the pool, but I couldn’t find them anywhere. A little bit later, the guy came swimming across the yard from out of the trees back to the pool. Not a terrible glitch, a little confusing, but overall I mean I guess it’s just good he didn’t get lost out there in those woods. I had hoped the *upcoming event would help with the slight repetitiveness, and it was very exciting to see the event notice pop up when I logged on about 30 minutes ago asking if I wanted to go to the event! Clicking go now didn’t do anything though, even after restarting the game and my phone, and looking it up online, I realized the event was disappointingly already over! Hopefully, the bugs get worked out, and I can play the next ones. In regards to the event pop-up, it would be super bumming if that didn’t stop. It was kind of annoying that I missed the event in the first place, but that’s said and done. It would be very annoying to be constantly reminded of that ever time I logged on. Also, I don’t like the relaxation tent thing. It takes up too much room in the backyard.

by CovetUser5

I loved playing virtual families 2, and it’s always been one of my favorite mobile games. So far everything has been going pretty smoothly other than some minor bugs, like people and pets walking through walls. One thing that has bothered me a lot though, and the only reason I didn’t give 5 stars, was that I bought a dog recently, (not sure if there are any problems with the other dogs, I’ve only bought the beagle, so maybe the problem is just with the beagles?) and all my dog does is bark. At first, the only action he did was bark at the tv, which I tried discouraging over and over again, but his happiness was going down, so I removed the tv. Now all he does is “bark excitedly”. I also have a hamster and a cat and none of them get stuck doing one action. I’ve tried picking him up and setting him down again, and still all he does is bark excitedly. I have to set him down on the bed to get a break from the barking, but I’m going to be upset if I have to get rid of him if he can’t stop only barking. I purchased the obedience school for him too and this did nothing. I’d like to have dogs in this game, but I’m afraid they’ll do the same thing as my beagle and I’ll just be wasting my coins.

Update: I had to get rid of the dog after everything bc it still would not stop “barking excitedly”. Got another cat and now it’s doing the same thing too, is this happening to anyone else?

by Women Rights

I love this game. I think that it is a lot better than the other virtual families games. A lot of stereotypes were fixed. They added a lot more diversity and people of color. I also love same sex marriages. Both of the adults are able to carry he baby. Now I can actually have my women progress in her career. Finally, when you buy a car and kitchen set, it just says that they are driving and cooking like a grownup. Some things that I would like to change though, would be the ghost girl. I fell like there is not a storyline for her and she just shows up. Lately I haven’t even been looking at what she is doing because I know that it will be the same thing. Another thing that I think should change is all of the malfunctions that happen in the house. I bought a tool box and fire extinguisher, but I still have to spend at least $1000 a week on malfunctions alone. And that leads me to my next problem. I think that the parent don’t make nearly enough money to pay for everything in this house. I am almost always broke to the point where I cannot even afford to buy groceries and medicine. I know that everyone is going to say that I should just watch ads but usually I can’t. I only get some ads once a week and even if I watch them nonstop I only make $4000 - $5000. Overall i think that this game is fun and enjoyable and I am glad that the game makers fixed some of the problems that happened in the last one.

by Eternalus

I fell in love with virtual villagers 5 first and I still wanna live in that world, but then I discovered virtual families and played for many years. I played virtual families 2 and loved it too but was waiting for something more. I wasted time and money with sims free play and in the end was disappointed on so many levels. I have played sims mobile, sims, sims 2, sims 3 and have just about everything in sims 4. I have waited for so many years for virtual families 3 and at first wondered why it wasn’t improved graphic wise or play wise. All that being said, I love this game and I truly appreciate the simplicity of it and its relaxing quality that keeps me enjoying the present moment. I feel like after going all over the world in search of something, I have finally come home. Blessings for you hard working guys trying to make the world a brighter place one game at a time. I promise to be a loyal player from now on as long as you keep updating the content. Thank you for listening!
Kids, download this now!, you will love it and house wives over 50 years like I am, you will find this relaxing and fun in a cute nostalgic way.

by Nononothisgameisgood

First of all, I love this game. I am only criticizing a few things that you could make even better. I have bought 2-3 things, and I plan on buying a lot more.

We need cribs. We really do. Or at least a cheap day care that will feed and take care of the baby. That alone would change the entire game. Second of all, we should be able to change the hairstyle of one of our people. Third of all, we need to be able to assign a room to a person, based on how many bed spaces there are (ex. I place a double bed in a room. Two people can have that as their room) Fourth of all (and this is a big one), Sometimes I want to put my kids up for adoption. Either I have too many, can’t feed them, etc. Please make that an option. Last of all, maybe have the kids go to school sometimes?

Thank you for reading, I hope you respond! To anyone thinking of getting this game: 100% recommend. LDW, you put a lot of work into this game, and your other ones, and I really appreciate the games and the work you’ve done to make them here. Have a great day!

by ThatOneReviewer626

I really like this game and I like that it isn’t too hard to earn coins. I am so addicted to the game, I could spend hours on it. I would really like it if you added more remodeling home improvements. For example, changing the first bathroom colors, wallpaper colors in rooms, the outside of the house colors, etc. It would also be cool if we could sell furniture we bought for some money. Since I have a few things I would like to sell just to get it out of my inventory. I also think it would be cool if we could customize our own characters, like make their appearances and everything. I know this is a lot to ask and updating games takes a lot of time. Besides all that, I really enjoy the game. I also like that there isn’t any ads that pop up randomly.

Update: 4/5/21

Everything is still fine for the most part, my only concern is that whenever I tried to buy a second lavender drape, it would pop with a message saying Java or something has stopped working so I have to restart, it keeps popping up with the message errors here and there too so I lose a few seconds of my progress and get put back a little. I also think it would be cool if you added a recycling bin inside the house, since you have one outside of the house. Other then that, everything is still good!

by ShadyKylie

This game is so much fun I play this game everyday I also have a few suggestions, A job website do they could pick out jobs as a teen or after college. you guys should add a neighborhood where the virtual family can go beyond the gates of the house and visit neighbors or the people can go around and explore the neighborhood and also a multiplayer neighborhood feature and can you also add cars and they can get a license at 15 or 16 to drive around to friends houses or stores. Also can you add the ability to build your own home layout and have the ability to sell it on a home marketplace, and also different homes you can start off with in the game and also phones and consoles and adults have the ability to take away the phones and consoles from teens and kids and also have the ability to ground them when misbehaving or when sneaking out with friends. Also the ability to move around the counters and appliances in the kitchen and move around the prebuilt and unmovable furniture that the house comes with and also the ability to make the rooms smaller and paint them and more or less windows, And can you add radios so teens or adults can jam out to music while driving a car or in their bedrooms.

by Truthful Game Reveiwer

Hey this games amazing and I wanted to start off by saying how great it is compared to vf2. I love the diversity, the new farm house theme and how the kids actually look like their parents. Honestly you guys did a great job and I really enjoy the new additions and improvements though I do suggest a few things, some of which I’ve seen others comment on as well. Having multiple families; I think it would be a great idea if their were more houses in which you could have other families in, and have a neighborhood compared to just one house. Maybe even make it to where the families can interact with each other and the children can have friends to play with. Other relatives; after starting my next generation I never see the other few kids that I had previously which is kind of sad especially when having to pick just one child to start off with again, maybe you could allow us to start families with the other children as well or at least make it to where you can interact with them again at some point. One last thing I would suggest is being able to chose our own flooring and wallpaper for the farm house , I honestly just think it would allow our houses to be more unique and expressive. But again, it is a very well developed game that I love playing.

by Suraza Kittna

I’m really impatient waiting for the pets update, but there’s lots I like about this version, I love ‘cinder’ but wish I could look through all the available options before choosing one. Baby care sharing is my favorite part, no complaints there. I love finding the collectibles but if something interrupts someone while picking one up it just completely disappears forever, I had almost finished the photo but once the kid got called to eat, and the other time and event happened. I love how family members come to visit, and a lot of the new animations are really fun. Also you don’t lose an outfit when you put a new one on anymore which is nice. My biggest issue is how even with career upgrades, and the parents constantly working in career, they never advance, if I’m lucky they’ll get to level 2 or 3 before dying. And that’s hard because everything is so expensive, I still only have two beds. If the few issues I’ve mentioned are fixed the game is easily 10+ stars. It’s a pretty simple game but it’s a really nice destresser and the fact that it’s slow paced makes it easy to do just a little a day instead of getting addicted and wasting hours on it before deleting because you’ve made yourself sick of it.