This game sounds so much fun! But windows... windows... windows... (lower-case "W" to show how inferior it is!) :P but what a fun sounding game! (And, JohnB, what a fantastic review, too.)

I would buy this if there were a mac version.

Yay! My suggested game. I was so hooked on this. I've finished it, if anyone needs help.

Hey, Brieya! We forgot to add the credits of who suggested this one, but I just fixed that, so cheers! =)

Mac folks: I'm sure there's a version in the works for you guys!

Imok20: Thanks for the compliment! :-)

This game is rather silly and childish. More for a younger brother, or probably sister. You might find yourself oddly itching to beat it, as I did, but it's a sick and horrible feeling that leaves you unfulfilled. Like playing with a child's action figures, on your own, when you're an adult. "What's wrong with having some good ol' fun?", you can ask, but you can also ask "what's right about assuming responsibility of a virtual tribe and ascribing sprites on a screen importance, when it is possible to focus attention on real people instead?"

Because "play" by the very nature of the word means to pretend, and to pretend gives us a welcome and healthy escape from the real when done on occasion and in balance with our real lives.

The mac version of this game is to be found in the second hit on a google search for virtual villagers.

Thanks iusegoogle. I've updated the review with a link to the Mac version. =)

My guy is taking forever to build the first hut. Am I doing something wrong?

Kendrick - I believe since this game works in real-time, it will take him quite a while to build the hut.

Can *you* build a hut in just a few minutes? ;)

This is a very creative new game, perhaps even creating a new genre, a REAL real time strategy/sim game. 4.5/5
Loses points for fuzzy graphics, and clunky interface.
Plusses: very new and well-implemented idea and a fun game in and of itself.

How did you come up with a rating so quickly, Imok?

I'm digging the soundtrack. Oh, and Kendrick, you can go into the options menu and set the game to play at 2x speed to help your builder finish his hut a little more quickly.

Hehe, I played for a good 15 minutes and did everything that could be done without waiting around for another 30 minutes, turned off the game and came to review it. I'm a power player/computer user. I have played many, many games and I can recognize something original fairly quickly now. Same goes with the negetives - clunky interface and graphics were apparent at once, and there are a few other things that I find detract from the game, but not in a way worth mentioning, as it would take much longer justifying all the positives. Perhaps a new rating will come along soon from me. Hope that answers your question? :P
And for anyone who can appreciate folk music/old rock, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot is an amazing song. Can't stop listening. For everyone else... SNAKES ON A PLANE.

(sorry, someone had to do it Jay)

I'm worried about that sponsorship deal. I understand that websites require income to run, but a relationship that pays you money based on people buying the very games you review damages your reputation for honesty and impartiality. It's as though a music reviewer for a magazine got paid a commission from a record label (say, BMG) based on the number of BMG CDs he reviewed that the magazine's readers bought. Would I trust such a reviewer? No way!

I visit this site daily because (a) you (plural) link to a lot of good games, and (b) you discuss the games, in real English. This is about trust. Already I am looking at the above review skeptically and thinking that "It's a remarkably addictive game that's easy to play but impossible to stay away from!" sounds like the kind of Joel Siegel blurb that would show up in a movie ad.

Do accept advertising, but keep the ads, and the financial relationship with the sponsors, independent of your reviews. That's a rule that the Old Media, for all their faults, hold by pretty well.

sneJ - I understand your concern, and you're right: we do need to make money, which is why we will continue with sponsored game reviews on occasion, as long as they perform well, with each one being clearly marked as such.

View them as advertisements and make your own informed decision. There is nothing underhanded going on. I don't know how I can be more honest and straight forward than that.

Would you prefer to see significantly more advertising on the site instead to compensate? Because the relatively subtle advertising we have currrently does not even cover the costs of maintaining the site.

What if we were to create an entirely separate section of the site specifically for sponsored game reviews? Would that be a more acceptable means of making them available to visitors who wish to support us?

"I visit this site daily because (a) you (plural) link to a lot of good games, and (b) you discuss the games, in real English."

If you don't like ads, don't come here. This is a blog, not a news outlet - jay don't have to please no one but himself.

And jay, please don't worry about this person. I think it's fantastic that you're finding a way to make this pay out, and in a way that I don't think will ever compromise what this site is supposed to be. There will always be those who call you a sellout no matter what you do, so I wouldn't worry about catering to them.

Thanks for the support, Brandon, though it is important to be respectful to everyone's point of view, even if we don't agree with everything we hear.

I believe sneJ's concern is a valid one, and I did even consider it myself when evaluating the decision to offer sponsored game reviews. We will tread carefully along this trail we're blazing, while continuting to evaluate all options and considering all consequences in the process.

Sponsored reviews... I have not played this game yet so I cant tell if I agree with review or not, but one thing I have liked about the reviews here is honesty. If there is something wrong with game, for example it has horrible music or it does not work under some browser, you tell about it. Now with sponsored games these kind of faults may not get mentioned anymore because who would buy faulty game. Being worked in the nespapers and magasines for years I know how easy it is to give up on the demands of advertisers, spronsors and other kind of money-bringing people.

"Hey, this company is buying lots of ads, lets not mention their product is worse then the same thing from competitors who do not buy so many ads from us".

Again, I am not saying anything bad about this game, but in theory, lets say the sponsor releases new game and asks you to publish review for it. You know they will pay more when people buy it so will you honestly write that it is another remake of 30 years old idea with average graphics and clumsy controls? Or are you able to say "sorry, but this game is not good enough to be recommended"? There are already thousands of sites all recommending same games only for same reason - so visitors would buy them. Lets hope jayisgames will continue to be different.

i tune the clock time and the time ingame actually move on by a lot
wahaha

While I don't think any of us would begrudge Jay and company the money needed to continue to provide this great content for free, I can understand some of the concerns about honesty in these sponsored reviews. As sneJ and tonypa argue, you have to wonder if you can truly be honest in a review in which you have a financial interest. Either the reviewers only review those games they feel are worthy of recommendation, or they end up being dishonest (even if only a little) in some of their reviews. Since the purpose of these reviews is to earn revenue, when brutal honesty clashes with financial concerns, honesty will invariably lose.

The question I have to ask, though, is this: in the end, does it really matter if the reviews are less than brutally honest? As Jay said above, any review labeled as a sponsored review is essentially an advertisement and should be considered a separate entity from a "normal" review (I'm extrapolating a bit on what Jay said, actually). It's not like these advertisements are the only thing we have on which to base our decisions. There will most likely be a demo (as there is for this particular game) that we can try out to make our own informed decisions. The advertisement is just getting the information out there, exposing people to the product, and getting them interested--which is exactly what advertisements do. Yeah, it happens to be in the form of a review, but take it with a grain or two of salt. As long as there is full disclosure, ultimately I don't see a problem with this method of keeping the site alive.

One suggestion, though: it would be a good idea to make sure that these advertisements are clearly labeled as sponsored. I usually read the tags, but some people might miss them. There should be another form of notification (as there is in today's advertisement).

Other than that, the only other thing I have to say is this: for those of you who do not see this as an acceptable source of revenue, try to make some constructive suggestions for alternatives. It's fine to point out flaws in a system, but this is not nearly as helpful as suggesting possible fixes.

And that's my bit of hot air. Keep up the good work.

I love this game,I can't buy it tho so that sucks.
Time goes by slowly in the game tho I heard If

How kid friendly is this? What is the youngest age this would be appropriate for? Thanks

Tally - That's a good question. There are some real life issues that this games deals with, such as birth and death, that might be difficult for the very young to understand. I woke up this morning and 3 of my villagers had died(!) because I forgot to switch their skills from breeding back to farming before I went to bed last night. =(

Breeding is represented by drag-dropping one villager onto one of the other gender, and if successful, they go inside a hut together for a few moments. And if *that* was successful, the woman will reappear with baby in her arms. So, nothing graphic at all, but indeed a real life situation none the less.

And that was excellent input to the discussion, Suho1004, thank you for that.

I can assure you, with my reputation at stake here, which is not something that I take foolhardily, that we will only review games, whether sponsored or not, that we find enjoyable and worth your time. That is what this site has been built on and that will not change for as long as I own this website. =)

I like this game! Too bad it has such a short free trial time. You can barely start foraging, and next time you start the game, the trial time expired... -_-
Anyway, I enjoyed it very much.

Indeed, Iris, the free trial is way too short to get a good taste of what this game is all about simply because the game clock goes so slowly. Although it's billed as a "real time" simulation, the villagers age years in a day (I have my clock set to 2x), but an hour is not nearly long enough to get a feel for how to play.

A free trial should allow a player to get "hooked" on the addictive qualities of the game before turning itself off, but I think this one falls short of that particular goal.

Um... what do I do now with the 3 skeletons lying in the middle of my village? (eewww.)

I left for like 10minutes once and when I came back,5villagers had died and I almost started crying lol.

I had to restart the game because I can't stand seeing the skeletons there.

Yah,free trial was short but I think if I beg for a few hours I might be able to buy it lol

What a shame... I went to sleep, next morning/afternoon my entire village was dead, but I still had food... I had left with 2 people set to farming (adept farmers) and 2 people researching and 1 person set to healing. Also, there was one mother who had a baby who was doing nothing. When I went to sleep there was over 300 food! What did I do wrong?

Imok - Have you trained any healers?

Possible puzzle spoiler:

I had one healer trained (one little bar) but I don't know how to train them any further, because my villagers just don't get sick! And I did have a villagers inspecting the herbs, and an alert saying I had a greater understanding of them.

I love this game I have been playing for a while and found this good site with a complete guide check it out if your stuck on something.

Jay, if you said nothing at the end of the review about JIG getting "sponsered", I never would have guessed that this was one that you will earn a sort of "commission" on. I tried the demo and it seems like a very solid, fun game.

That aside, the game is a bit too expensive. $20 is a bit much for a game that doesn't have much to do later on. I'm not sure if I want to spend the money on it at this point. :-/

But otherwise, entertaining!

My_poison_girl - that link doesn't work. This is the right one

So, in the end, the demo was good enough (for me) to buy the game, and, honestly? I don't regret it. As some people on this post have said, the idea is a little childish; the graphics are a little clunky; yet, there's something very endearing about the game itself, and I for one am always so excited when my little guys figure something new out.

yeah, i went ahead and bought it.

I maintain that the price was a little high (just a little), but in the end, I couldn't stop thinking about what my villagers were doing, and I only had 9 minutes of play left. I hope it's worth it!

okay i bought the game but i didnt use jayisgames to buy it...i used jayisgames to download the demo then used the demo to buy it...so if theres a way you can still get compensated (like i need to tell them that i bought it because of your review) just let me know

by the way...awesome game...im addicted

wow sry about that, my comp is messed up when it comes to copy and pasting stuff, but at least you where able to get the link. Sorry about that again.

poison girl - that was my fault, I turned your URL into a clickable link, and didn't include the http. I fixed it, so now there's two links that work to the guide.

Yeah i am in agreement with Alli, Jay is there some way you can let them know i bought the game after finding it on your site? I'm really sorry but when i was going to buy it I completely forgot to use your site!

Thanks, Scramble. I'll try to get the details worked out soon about it. I appreciate you letting me know. Cheers! =)

I'm kind of dissapointed that I couldn't play it longer.

I was doing very well, and in fact was able to play longer than the demo stated by not leaving the game.

As for the dead people lying around, something interesting happened when I was playing, though I never actually had someone die and have to deal with it.

That answers the question of what to do with the skeletons.

Positives on the game:

* The game has cute graphics you like to just sit and watch.

* The secrets that are "obviously" there like the bolder infront of the cave or the blocked lagoon makes one nosy for more.

Some (starter) Tips:

Some critism:

* I don't like this real-time-while-you-are-off-computer-concept at all. This goes as well for example for "fish tycoon" (same company) or many browser games. Reasons for this:

** I like to play on my time, when I have assign time for it, and as long I want.

** Gaming should for me an opportunity to have a good time, to forget about your daily solicitudes, to dive for a while into a world thats simpler than the real world that became really complex.

** Gaming should not introduce new things I have to worry about when sitting in the train. Are my villagers okay? Should I have set an option different while I'm not there? Will i have to restart from new when I did something wrong? And in worst case: you have to rush home, to take a look into your virtual game.

** Especially this game needs constant attention in the first 12 hours (if you don't trick by skewing your clock). Even in advanced state you have to check every 12 hours at least.. having the application closed for 24 hours and they might be all dead (or to skew your clock for more than 12 hours in a step).

** The off-computer "simulation" meaning calcualtion what would have happened if it were running is totally different than leaving the game running. Skewing your clock by 24 hours gives a different result, than skewing it in 6 hours steps, and looking at the village for few seconds (you dont even have to do anything at all). Big time skips á 24h often result on not having a next generation.

** For me basing the game on the realtime clock , just slows you down, they only artifically elongate something you would play through in a few hours (4-5 in my case with clock skewing)

* I don't like the concept of accumalting tech points and then to "buy" a technology. And all advantage is done on the "research table". It really doesn't work that way :) I would far more love to see a villager playing around with the field for a couple of time until discovering how farming is done...

* In the beginning I was often worried when there werent enough kids (of both sexes) and the females of the parent generation were approaching 40-45. A natural limit of parturition. I only lately discovered that this isn't a matter in the game. You can have mothers up to 70. (Just leaves the question, is this by intentional design so - or did the creators not know :) or not care?)

On the sponsership issue:

* I do see this with a suspicious eye.

* I don't worry about the quality of the reviews, but I do worry about the future repertory - which kind of games will be selected and prefered to be pictured on jayisgames. I learned to love jig as a site where generally "special" games are hand select and well presented. Special in either beeing well implemented or for example having a new inventive game concept (and not beeing another one of these 100oo.. "me-too" reimplemantions of concepts already present in the 1980ies). Most of the games were small, webbased, free, a nice distraction for a few minutes, or to a few hours in special cases.

* Now this is a personal valuation, but comparing what you get for your money when buying "games-in-a-box" at the next door software store, I don't find heavily web advertised games like this to be worth 20$ ($19.95)! If you compare you can buy for example "settlers IV" and the store next door for 10$ And you get a fare more vast game with campaign that provide you fun for several days (days if were playing only all day) Or take sims 2 for example at 40$... it just much more "programming expenditure" you get per $.

* This classic software industury is also discovering the web as marketing channel. So for most of this ~40$-per-box games you can now get downloadable demos for 1 or 2 levels also (altough they tend to be big downloads)... I'm afraid by using "sponsored games" JIG might slooowly (to slow to notice) move away from the small-free-web-diversion-games to a marketing channel for classic box-games, where so many magazines (and their websites) are already available.

* After all, what does "virtual villagers" have, that classic-game-industry software like Settlers IV, SIMS 2, Guildwars etc. not have (when they have downloadable demos? and what would justification to include former and not later, except that one has a background of "webish" games and small company the other a background of the classic gaming industry?

Interesting, Oak. The whale did not appear in my village (yet). To deal with the skeletons:

And thanks for your input, grid. It would be foolish to abandon the very audience that helped this site grow as large as it has, and we will continue to highlight the best, free or otherwise, casual games we can find available on the Web.

To anyone suspicious about this: When it comes to reviewing games in the pay-to-play downloadable sector of the casual games industry, why shouldn't we earn something from the referrals? That is how the casual games market functions. We have not nor will not change our focus from highlighting only the best casual game experiences available today, and I stand by this review as such.

I think the issue to remember when considering is - Without advertising can the site afford to continue? So then it becomes a question of continue the site or modify. If one choses to modify and utilize advertising there will be constant compromising and re-evaluating. Eventually, you get back to the choice of modify or die. This cycle neverending until the event dies. So there is the choice. Life is a series of constant choices and then we die. (sigh)
See what this game has done to me! :)

My feelings on the sponsorship issue: If you need the revenue (and with 1.5+ million views a month, you probably do), and this will do the trick, then by all means do it. This site is worth it, and what you've built with it is worth it to keep alive. Mark the sponsored games as sponsored, and I'll be satisfied. I can see you understand and take this issue seriously, so I will trust to you and to the community that has arisen to hold accountable to the concerns.

As for the game... I'll think about downloading it when I get home (if my DSL has started up by then anyway... sigh.. stupid AT&T/SBC people).

That is a very accurate assessment of the situation, "me", and yet there is more to what is going on here.

On the Web, the more popular a site becomes the more money it costs to maintain it. This is a simple fact of the Web-enabled new media we see today and is an aspect of this site we have to constantly monitor.

In addition to that, though, we are in the process of transitioning the site from Jayisgames to CasualGameplay to more accurately reflect the content of this site. And, being a site that specializes in casual games, we simply cannot ignore the outstanding development efforts that exist in the pay-to-play downloadable sector. While these games may not appeal to everyone, there is a significant market for them and we will continue to review the best ones that come available.

Thanks also to you, Ben, for the support. Your comment is exactly how I hope most people feel about this issue and about us. =)

Anyone who's read this site for a while knows Jay's commitment to quality games. I don't think this will dilute that passion, and the fact that he's bothering to mention it at all shows he's being up-front and honest. And if it really doesn't work, then we'll just have to start donating via Paypal :)

Cheers Jay for all the games so far, and for the future ones. Kept me entertained far too many times for me to count!

I agree with Ben and WobL. I've been coming to this site for years and have come to realize that Jay is an honest and trustworthy reviewer. To add to the 'honesty' debate, if by chance the cons weren't mentioned in the review, and this review shows examples of this, Jay's readers and gaming fans will point them out in the comments section personally.

I can understand why a few of you might not have warmed to this like I did, but when I first read this review I thought it was a good thing that Jay was going to have some sponsored reviews. I was so happy that I went and told my partner about it straight away because we both love the site. We all use the games Jay offers and have our say, and if he gets something more out of it than our praise of a good game then that's great, in my opinion.

I've been watching and enjoying the games here for well over a year now, and have no problem with Jay using sponsored links.

If other people do object to this, then perhaps they should click on the "support JIG" link up the page and fire off a couple of dollars a month to support this site.

It just seems logical, if Jay didn't need money to run the site then Jay wouldn't have to use sponsored links.

Like with a local radio station where I live, you can buy a "membership card" which entitles you to enter competitions, get cheap tickets and other nice wee bonuses and it stops the radio from having to play ads.

My 2c :)

Thanks for all the hard work Jay

Help!!! How did you teach ur villagers to fish?? I have put them into the water so many times their skin is wrinkled.
On the plus side, I have no casualities, 12 villagers, a great farm, lagoon, school.

Oh no! i sense a famine coming on in my village! I am losing food faster than I can produce and my researchers can't research fast enough to build the points up to buy the third farming upgrade. Oh noes!

When it comes down to it, this is a site we all access for nothing, we post on here for nothing, play the games for nothing... so what if Jay has the opportunity to make some money off it for reccommending a game or two that are enjoyable. Give the guy a break and try give a little back for a change!He isnt telling us all we HAVE to buy the game, he's telling us to check it out and see if you think its worth it, if you do then help him out a bit and get it from the site we all love anyway!!!

missy for president! =D

Hehehehe thank you *blush*

Me- Fishing is the third farming upgrade. You won't get to do that for a little while.

Scramble125- If you already have 2 farming upgrades, you should have the crops just underneath the research table. Once your crops get low, your farmers should start watering the crops using the well. If not, try putting them on the well to see if their little bar says that they're 'watering the crops'. Soon after that, if you hover your mouse over the crops it should say 'minutes until new crops:" and then have the amount. Once the new crops come there should be 800 food ready for the picking. Also, you'll find that if they spend their time farming the crops and not the berry bush, the berry bush begins to replenish after awhile.
Just as a little tip, try not to get the cheapest upgrades all the time- for example, your next science upgrade might cost a fair bit more than your next farming upgrade- but science upgrades allow your researchers to earn tech points much quicker.

One other thing I did was that if I needed food fast (as an example) I would change most of my villagers onto farmers and stick them on the crops and berry bush, or when I wanted the lagoon cleared quickly I would change most of them to builders and place them there until the job is completed.
Once you start to progress through the game as well and need to call on stubborn workers who are wandering around, click the little drum sitting next to the school and the kids will all go to school. It gets them out of your hair for a bit to re-assign duties to the lazy adult villagers.

Breeding tip- instead of waiting for them to go inside, find two compatible villagers ( you'll hear the little kissing noise a few times) keep clicking them so that you're continuously placing one of them on the other quickly. Your female should (strangely enough) spring out a baby right there and start to care for it immediately.

Watering the crops will not make the crops grow any quicker... Really! There is only a finite amount of crops you get in a day (if you farm heavy it results in having the "minutes until crops ready" will increase from harvest to harvest, until they reach 1200 Minutes... in my case.. a hunger epedemy was not to stop, but some made it through to reasearch to fishing, bevore all died. Of course I did not make any babies in this time (so all the population was 60.. until the urgent need of the next generation arised when fishing became available).

Missy...well said...I totally agree!

Jay...you are probably one of the most conscientious site owners I've come across & your site reflects that consistently. Thanks for your hard work & if you ever do need help with donations...just let us know...I'm sure the response would be terrific.

Now...on to the village to see if I can possibly keep those poor unsuspecting villagers alive.

I really enjoyed this game, pity the demo wasn't longer. Very addicting though

Hey, when I put my master scientist at the research table, it says "your villager has already mastered this skill. Does that mean I don't get any more points for her research? I can't help it, I'm addicted to this dumb game!

Anyone know any good ways to get tech points???
I cant seem to collect very many and with things costing like 180,000 tech points i have no idea how to collect so many!

Carrie Hall- I kept them at the research table even though it said that. They keep working, it just means that they can't gain any more skill from doing so.

Alli- Unfortunately there is only one way to get tech points, and that's research. The only thing that will speed it up is buying science with your tech points, then your villagers research significantly faster. Using x2 speed in options helps a little bit too.

For the sponsered links, why not do something noticable, like change the background color of those reviews? That way those that are skeptical can see with one glance to take the review with a grain of salt, and those that look at sponsership as a way to help support a site they love can get out their checkbooks?

Cant remember if this has been said before and right now Im too lazy to read all the posts to find out (hehehe) but you can actually pause the game by pushing the space bar. This enables you to close the game and come back to it later right where you paused it ;)

That's a good point, Missy. You can also stop time by selecting "Paused" in the options menu. That way you can quit the game and come back later without having to leave it open. =)

Btw Jay, I really should curse you for recommending this game. My housework is starting to pile up because Im addicted to the game LOL!

is there any sort of "ending" to this game? ive finished all the puzzles but the message i get after going into the cave makes it sound like something else is meant to be discovered...or perhaps paving the way for a sequel?

alli- there is no formal ending, which was a bit annoying for me, because I'm really curious about that message in the cave! So I really do hope that it means there will be a sequel.

This is a cute game, but it is also frustrating because it takes so long for anything to happen.

Hey, is this game really worth the money? How long does it take to beat this? Because if it takes a couple days it's not worth it, unless they hand out free updates or somthing... thank you.

i loved this game but i dont think it was worth $20...if it came with a sequel? then sure $20 is fine but this game only lasted me about 4 days and once you beat it theres really nothing left to do with it...

Someone try this please...im very curious:

Alli,

I bought the game, but one day later the authorisation key had expired! I have contacted their support team, but as yet, I still haven't heard back from them.

Did this happen to anyone else?

yay! i have the #1 ranking for villagers buried!! anyone here #2?

Everyone has #1 until someone in your village dies.

This silly game is addictive. Just when I thought I had mastered my JIG addition, along comes Villagers. Alli, I had the number 1 ranking for deaths when I checked on the Net about 3 days ago. Then I only had 1 death. Now I have about 12. I have bought every tech skill. Now am just waiting until enough villagers decide to get together and move the boulder. Still no treasure and am franticly trying to clear the bed of flowers by having them honor every thing. Guess now I just have to bide my time and let them work.

hey guys, just want to know how do i make the kids go to school. i keep on beating the drum, they come, but they can't go inside coz the door is closed. what should i do? or what is the right thing to do?

OK, I have solved every puzzle and milestone except the treasure chest. Who does the looking? I have tried searching the beach with Adept and Master Scientists, Builders, & Farmers. I also tried searching with the Golden Child ---- NOTHING! what do I do?

When is the game over-after the 16 puzzles are don? Do you ever get to go and explore the cave? Please email me at afaulk@comcast.net

Thanks!!

fiona- the children don't go inside the school, they have their lesson out the front of it.

me- The treasure chest is to be found

This game is absolutely brilliant but I think it's a little expensive. I don't know whether to buy it. When you buy it is there still a time limit on the game or something?

Brieya,

I have tried and tried with the master builder, dropping him all around the food bin and even tried on top...so far, nothing. He either eats or goes and inspects stuff. Or he justs stands there doing nothing. Help!!!

Right with you Becky... Ive dropped and dropped a master builder on, near, around, the food bowl and nothing

Becky and Lora

its not really "under" the food. its to the left of the ruins a little bit. and a little ways under the food. Equidistant between the two.

Thank you so much Psyche. I would have never figured that one out. I am so hooked. Praying for a sequel already.

so now that i have the treasure....what's next? One person "sees somehting unusual" but i dont know why. all the puzzles are solved, but i know there must be something i am missing. o_O

ACK!!! I have dropped that golden child everywhere, but cant figure out the butterfly part of the puzzle. Help anyone?

i love the game, but is a bit desappointment at the end, i continually saw the two eyes peaking in the darkness of the cave, once the cave is open by the golden child, it leaves your imagination open to who was eating the berries inside the cave, what or who could have had the eyes seen inside the cave behind the rock, is that it??? the tribe continues to go on? n one dies, no one is born? why the cave? the berries? anyone knows???

I am also dissapointed. I had fun with it for a few days, now I beat everything i can (i think), solved all the puzzles. From what i read on another site they is to be a sequal. However, i dont think i should have to pay for it. I didnt get my $20 out of this one. I dont usually buy a game....and now i know why. Not saying its a bad game, its cute...just not worth $20

Jplo....put your golden child in the garden to the right...then take him to that plant at the top near the lagoon, the one that "looked like it could produce fruit...."

I am stuck on #9 where you have to take a villager exploring on the east side of village, did this many times but don't know what I am suppose to be looking for, any suggestions on where I have to put the villager??

Kathy....if i remember right, you need a master farmer and your second level of farming and take them to where there are strange dead flowers (or something to that effect)

Hi! I have 90 people and no Golden Child? No twins and no triplets. I have all the techs. Plenty of food! I got the treasure chest...thank you for that one! Anyone know what to look for next?

ARIANNE: to get the golden child you have to have all 3 levels of fertility and you have to take a nursing mother to the lagoon....

I have done all the puzzles and gotten the golden child, but i cant expand my number of villagers. I have 90, but i have seen screen shots of other peoples game that have 150+.

Can anyone help me?

I read somewhere else (ofcourse i can't remember where) that the puzzles arent the only thing to this game. There is a secret to the island that is supposed to be a continuence of the game. Anyone know what that is?

I have tried the demo of this game and i really liked it. i have searched in stores but they dont have it and i dont want to buy it over the net. Can anyone tell me where i can purchase this game? Im sorry for the stupid question. but yea
email me : urlovlymidget@aim.com
Thnx

i really loved the game but most of my villagers died very fast. is there anyone here that have already completed the game and could you please email me the tell me step by step on how to complete the game. i will greatly thank you for helping.

This game is so addictive lol hopefully my lovely parents will buy it for meee!!...and yea 1hr trial is real short...but if you leave the trial version open it doesnt expire...it only expires if you close it and try to open it again!!..

Zav

First of all, LOVE the game...but I do admit that I feel somewhat pathetic when I rush to find out what's been going on while I haven't been watching.

Does anyone know what the Golden Child is doing when he goes to the center of the village and does his bubble blowing and you hear the "ahhhhhhhhhhhh" music? I don't see a purpose, other then distracting my builders from digging, lol.

Thanks for this site, Jay, I think it's great!

i cant get my populatin over 90 screenshots show a lot more can some one email me

erghhh ... three of my villagers died =[ . I was going somewhere and I forgot to make them harvest the crops while I was gone soo they died .. I have seven villagers again , I used to have ten . How do you guys get so much villagers?!

Cody, I just reached population 90, also, and got the following message:
Congratulations! Your tribe has reached its maximum sustainable population!
I haven't seen screen shots of others with more then 90, but, thought I'd pass that info on.