PC Games – Virtual Families

PC Games - Virtual Families

From the developer of the smash-hit Virtual Villagers series comes the new casual game that captures the drama of life: Virtual Families! Care for your own virtual family in real time! Adopt and nurture your first member, help them meet a mate and start a family in this casual simulation game. Pass on the house as your family members grow up for generations of fun!

• Thousands of combinations for adoptees
• Nurture your members personalities through praising and scolding
• Over 100 trophies
• Hidden puzzles, unpredictable occurrences, weather, and day/night cycles synched to your clock

Love Virtual Villagers and its sequels? Well… You will be glad to know that they have come out with a new game – Virtual Families! You get to adopt a character to move into your home, manage their lifestyles, find the perfect partner for them and help them expand their families. You can even buy upgrades and improvements for their home to make it a perfect living space for them!

I do like the numerous trophies you can collect once you accomplish certain goals and of course also the collection of items that you can find around the house.  But other than that I do find the time passes too slowly especially when you want to have more children in the house, you got to wait until the last child is around 4-5 yrs old before you can have another child. (Which is around 4-5 hrs?) Was pretty fascinated with the game at first but because I prefer games with faster pace, sometimes I find it a little boring that I have to get in the game just to make sure they have enough food every day.

Overall I find the game a little boring as I don’t really like the idea of sitting around just to wait for the time to be passed or for the kids to grow up. And with only 2 working adults in the family, I find getting cash for upgrades is pretty slow. It probably takes few generations or more if you want to fully upgrade your home. But since I already got the game, it won’t hurt for me to keep it and try to see what really happens in the end.

Download Virtual Families here (Windows)
Download Virtual Families here (Mac OSX)

Here are some hints and tips for the game if you get stuck in the game.

How to unlock the shed (located at the top left hand corner of the game, hotkey “7”)

• Drop 1 of the character to pick up the doorknob which is located at the sandbox and wait while it fixes the doorknob to the shed.
• And finally drop the character at the door mat and it will find the key and goes to unlock the shed.
• There you will have the shed open with watering cans and fire extinguishers in it.

How to achieve the trophy of Plant Tycoon – You watered the plants in the window boxes

• Drop your character at the shed where the watering cans are and wait while he/she waters the plants.

How to put out the fire in the kitchen

• Drop character at the shed where the fire extinguishers are and it will move on to put out the fire.

How to repair a leaking sink

• Drop an adult or a character at least at the age of 14 on the wrench which is located at the back of the workshop

How to repair a clogged shower or sink

• Drop an adult or a character at least at the age of 14 on the bucket which can be found in the laundry room

How to repair the birdbath in the garden

• Purchase a pump from the store which will appear randomly
• Place the pump at the birdbath and get 2 characters to fix it.

How to repair the broken floor panels

• Buy the floor repair kit from the store which also appears randomly
• Place the repair kit on the part of the floor which you want to repair
• Drop an adult or a character at least at the age of 14 on the part of floor you want to repair
• Take note that each floor repair kit only fixes one hole in the floor and sometimes you might need to drop the character over and over again to get it totally fixed.

How to repair the leaky hose in the backyard

• Get the duct tape from the store which appears randomly
• Place the duct tape on the hose
• Drop a character on the bathroom sink and another at the hose to fix it

How to repair the workshop wall

• Buy the wall repair compound from the store which also appears randomly
• Place the wall repair compound next to the green bucket by the sandbox
• Drop an adult or a character at least at the age of 14 on the bucket
• Once the character has move the bucket to the workshop wall, get another character and keep dropping them at the bucket to make the repairs work faster.

How to cure hiccups

• Drop the affected character at the sink to give the person a drink, repeat if necessary to get it cured.