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Virtual Villagers - The Secret City


Embark on a journey with a group of adventurous villagers in their quest to populate a new part of the mysterious island of Isola! Land on the hidden shores of the northern side of the island 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 long lost city. Who lived here before? Where have they gone? What is the secret of Isola? Lead your tribe to the answers in Virtual Villagers - The Secret City!

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• Unravel The Mysteries Of Isola!
• Real-Time Gameplay And Weather!
• Dozens Of New Collectibles!
• Rebuild The Remains Of A Ruined City!

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  KikiMinx's Review - May 30, 2008 - View all my reviews (24)


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Third time's a charm!

There's no shame in being a Virtual Villagers addict, and for those of us who are addicted to any kind of game, whenever there's a sequel out you get an initial 'wahooo!' followed by several crossed fingers and toes that it won't have changed too much but will challenge you more!

So what are the new additions? Weather is a new thing here (in that it affects your game). The introdution of a chief is also new and a great idea because your chief can summon varying amounts of food for you every 24hrs which is a big sigh of relief since most of us have had famine issues in the other games, much less likely now. They can also lecture and perform other helpful things, be kids or be either sex and have babies if female which is good because they don't 'work'. The potions list is also now much more extensive than before and it can be very amusing just trying and testing things. The other big addition is that your tribes can now select a 'type', either magic or nature, which affects what you can do and means you also want to play at least twice all the way through! Enough of all that, on to...

Gameplay Much the same as before graphics/movement-wise, no major changes here but to be honest i'm quite glad, we like it! The tasks, challenges etc are more varied and just as likely to make you have to scour a walkthrough in places, so also great. It does feel like there's more to do and you do find yourself discovering new things big and small fairly regularly through the game.

In conclusion it's clear that I loved it, it hasn't changed in any major ways and that's a good thing (to me anyway). You still get a whole lot of gameplay for your money, and it's still one of the best real time strategy games out there of the type. I bought without demo because with any Virtual Villagers game, you won't get much done in an hour anyway, but all I can say is that it was 100% worth it and i'll be doing the same when Virtual Villagers 4 comes out - BIG thumbs up!


This review has an average score of 4.4 - Based on 49 ratings
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  ZokiPhantom's Review - June 18, 2008 - View all my reviews (2)


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Lucky Third Time

Did you like the first two Virtual Villagers games? Then don't hesitate and buy this one right away, 'cause it's even better that the first and second part.
There are quite a lot changes that you can only see if you try very hard, 'cause you'll get so addicted to it that you won't even see the bad stuff, which actually isn't much...

I first downloaded the trial/demo version, but i couldn't do much in that one hour play so i made my brother buy it for me, 'cause even that i didn't do much in that one hour play i was taken by it's magic, by the graphics and the sounds, but mostly by the plot/storyline, 'cause even though the first two parts were great, they aren't as good as this part... believe me you won't make a mistake if you buy it, or at least try it with the trail/demo version, 'cause the new puzzles are the most interesting so far if you ask me, and although they are a bit harder(well some of them), you'll surely love discovering the three diamond keys...


This review has an average score of 4.1 - Based on 27 ratings
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  kello420's Review - May 29, 2008 - View all my reviews (11)


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Virtual Villagers 3

I was excited to see the third edition out of virtual villagers. This version, is much like the first. You need researchers/scientists, builders, healers, farmers, parents.. to make your village thrive.

A new addition to this game is the tribal chief! You have your villagers try on a strange robe on the island, and one of them is destined to be the leader. This villager is not a worker, they rather help the workers. If one villager doesn't fit the robe - try another. It can be any one of them!

There are exciting puzzles to figure out, and a nice storyline. If you liked the other two virtual villager games, you'll love this one as well :)


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Puzzle 9 - The Statue.
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List Of Potions & what they do:
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Tips:
1. If your chief is a female & she has a baby, she's won't direct work or Lecture!

2. Exercising can help boost Building skills and can give some a longer life.

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3. Faster Tech Points
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4.Master Parenting Quickly
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5. Potions that make Villagers sick can help your healers out! Just set them aside (or not since the sick can heal as well) and have everyone else drink it and let your healers go to work. P.S. Kids can heal too, becoming apprentice doctors.

6.For the potions that take health and not make villagers sick, you just need to make a potion that gives you health.

7.Look for the potion that says "You feel better" once drank when you have a villager with a weakened status (which are caused by bad potions and lab mishaps). These will give you healthy status again and will slowly refill the health meter (or just make a potion that gives health afterwords to fill it quicker)

8. Kids can gather your ingredients for potions. They are much faster.

9. Without saying too much the best way to get all the limited food source crisis done with is to get the following asap:
3 adept builders (to me the most important skill to have all villagers learn/master)
the lift fixed
the research lab fixed
level 2 in the faction you chose (nature or magic)
the right potion to make your problems disappear :)
Hope this helped :)
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Like all other Virtual Villagers games you can turn your computer clock forward to do a "time travel" in the game.

Warning: There is a chance that you will loose alot of time and alot of villagers, use this with caution.
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Puzzle 12 - Aromatherapy. You will need to have completed Puzzle 8, have Level 3 Medicine, and a Master Doctor. Drop your Master Doctor in the completed bath. He/she will fill the bowls around the bath with Lotus plants ("doing aromatherapy"). Then drop a Master Doctor on the fire to light the burners and finish the puzzle.

And now a question : why the award of the "Legendary Chief" is not activted even if my chief started this "job" at 10 years and now he is 62???
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The ruined alchemy puzzle....
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The broken machine puzzle...
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The orchard puzzle ...
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The Giant Bath...
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Rooster of Death puzzle...
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The orchard

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Don't impregnate all your women right away, wait until you have a continuous food source before making more villagers.
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Puzzle 5 - Weather Dancing.
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Puzzle 6 - The Lift.
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Puzzle 7 - The Rubble.
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Puzzle 8 - The Ancient Bath.
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Orchard Puzzle (Usage of the lift)

After you repair the lift, make one of your villagers stand on the lift during the rain. after a while the villager can reach the tree and then a seed will drop. Drag your villager onto the seed to plant it.Make the whole thing twice and wait for fruits to grow up. (Actually orchard contains three trees but one seed is already on the ground- i strongly suggest planting it at the beginning of the game because honey stock is very limited... )
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The first 4 puzzles

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Puzzle 15 - The Clam Key.
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Puzzle 16 - The Sun Dial.
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the quickest way for food is...
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the chief can also gather herbs and he can do alchemy.

You can also put him on the lift so he can reach for the fruit
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The Ruins puzzle...

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Puzzle 13 - The Ash Key.
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Once you have a Tribal Chief, they can't do any work anymore. But...

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Just so that everyone knows. You DO NOT choose who will wear the robe. That is random. I have even had a child who wears the robe. That is probably the best one to do in my opinion, since they can't work. :)
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Help on food:

I was kind of confused at first on getting food for my villagers, but figured out the honey is your first source. Make sure your firewood and dry grass is gathered and started before attempting.

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one of the secret powers from the village chief is: poofing up food ......
you always get when done the tutorial 300 food of a big bunch of honeycombs
the adept scientist he can make the lab usable
collect all the items you can by using childs
the only flower you can use is a black lotus .... the other plants ar very good hidden ( for me )
you get a plant every so much hours with food ( wich i dont remember )the village chief can let your poeple work anny better and earn better experience
i got on one of my tribes a child from the barrel so i got 1 child whitout parenting him
always pause the game unless your really sure the villagers can survive without you
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Collect the collectibles, even if you already have collected that certain collectible, it will earn you tech points. The more rare, the more points.
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Puzzle 11 - Banishing the Sharks.
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Puzzle 14 - The Hanging Key.
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Potions Discovered so Far

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I have played all 3 of the games and they are great. Just a few herbal tips...

Rose Rose Rose Romantic/Embrace
Rose Rose Black Orchid Feels Lonely
Rose Rose Cactus Fertile
Rose Rose Lotus Dances
Rose Rose Tiger Lily Stinky Breath/Villager Burps Green Cloud
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For a health potion, use 2 lotus flowers and 1 cactus. If your person is very low on health you have to make the potion again. The villagers are only able to use the potion once per pot.
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THESE ARE MY TIPS, ASSUMING VIEWERS ALREADY HAVE GENERAL KNOWLEDGE OF THE GAME

1. The 1st puzzle is the finding of the chief, my advice is (through personal experience) DO NOT allow anyone to try on that wretched robe! Even a child! Directing work my foot, that's not as good as actually doing work. You can always do this later when you have to do weather dancing and what not.

2. The 1st thing u want 2 do is put a person to start building a house, not because you want to support a larger population, but because you want to build skill (luckily I had a runner, and if the person is a trainee already, all the better). One person should be collecting the honey (the seed should already be planted). The rest of people should be researching. After one scientist (who has some skill in building) reaches adept level, put him to start building to build up his skill level. You don't have to drain the honey all at once so, put the farmer to research when you are satisfied with the amount of food (you'll pick back up when the food goes down) In the meantime, get the children to collect collectibles and mushrooms.

3.When the woman who was pregnant becomes available put her to clear the bushes (You may put all training builders to clear bushes). You are doing this because you need 3 adept builders (along with Restoration Level 2) to make the machine work.

4. So by now, your honey would have finished, and you should be harvesting fruit from your first tree. Hopefully you have enough tech pts to buy Restoration Level 2, and you should have 3 adept builders (one might be master), so buy Rest. L.2 and then place the 3 adept builders on machine and it will be repaired.

5. You don't have to leave a villager stupidly standing on the machine waiting for rain to fall. As soon as you start to see rain falling, place one. The bucket on the other end will fill and the villager goes up. A seed (in the form of the actual fruit) would fall, and you'll plant that. You may take the villager
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(cont'd) off the machine before rain is finished falling and the lever goes down. When rain falls again, you do the same to get the last fruit.

6. So, with that over, and a lot of fruit in the future, so you don't have to worry, you can now concentrate on making 55,000 tech pts to get rid of the sharks. You may also, finish clearing bushes (to reveal the Roster of the Dead), and Repair the bath, and clear rubble. Note: I, still haven't robed by chief!

7. When the youngest child is about 11, and all the others have more or less grown up, you can let a woman get pregnant.

Personally, right now I've got 6 scientists (4 of which are mastered, and 1 Esteemed) trying to make up my 55,000 to banish sharks; 2 builders clearing the rubble (the bath is already repaired), no one farming, because I think I have enough food (over 1000) and besides the trees are almost depleted! 2 children running around. I started playing today, after a failed try! And I'm confident I can finish successfully. I think, the key to my success, is not picking a leader. When I'm reading to do the weather dance or when I'm out of food, I'll allow my villagers to try on the robe (hope it's a child) Anyway, I hope this helps many people. I know other people's inputs helped me alot in coming up with this idea.
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the Tribal Chief

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You can make magic food with the help of CHIEF.Just place him over the food bin and he will start making.But he can only make this magical food once every 24 hours(real 24 hours).
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food supply
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All About Herbs!

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The chief job is kinda like the golden child from previous games. Since you can get this job from almost the very beginning the abilities are limited (based on population) but still useful. I suggest dropping the 2 starter kids on the robe in the amptitheatre at the very beginning and starting over until you've got 1 of the kids as a chief.
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While the game is running on fast speed:

Turn the computer clock back 10 hours, to have the trees in your orchard instantly have 1000 food if you've let the trees mature to full growth. This trick will also max the honey in the hive to 3000.

Turn the clock back a little when you've just planted a tree, this will instantly grow your tree and max it at 1000. Handy at the beginning of the game.

Rewinding the clock is useful for getting food but not teck points, but you won't loose tech points either.
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Aroma terapy level 3 medicine and master doctor

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Food...
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LAst resourse is fishing... Get level 2 faction and
Nature : picure plant + 2 black orhid
Magic : berry + 2 rose

This are resorses in game.

Chief can do much more than enybody says !
He can : gader herbs, plant seds , take keys , Most inportant direckt work. When direckting work work is ethier : bosted ( done faster ) or on lab points are gained faster.
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u can change your system time(betwean 1 or 2 hours)to see result of your actions in games!
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Although it's not THE time critical game is, I like to use the hotkeys ingame. The hotkeys are equal to the previouse versions:
M - Map
D - Details
P - Puzzles
C - Collections
T - Tech
Space - Un-/Pause
1-9 - jump to map section (ordered as on the num pad)
ESC - Mainmenu, abort detail screen
I hope this helps you.
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Most actions a villigaer can take are splitt in two parts.
For example "Cleaning the rubble": 1st step is picking up an stone, which teaches building skill. 2nd is to dispose of the stone, which enhances the cleaning process.
In order to build up a skill simple keep dragging the villager back to work after (s)he picked up a stone.

Same goes for parenting. You may drag a couple onto each other until the woman is pregnent without having them go indoors.
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In the corner on the right is a big green plant. Make sure that they remove all the leafs.

When you have a adept scienst he of she has to collect all the pots to make a lab.
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The bottom left of the map is that there a piles of rock, you need to get a Master Builder or Master Researcher (Upgrade all of the techs up to Level 3 just incase) to mine the rocks and then there will be a hole. Inside will be secrets about the Island of Isola. Maybe this will work.
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Rain usually means mushrooms.
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When someone of your tribe dresses the robe, that's in the amphitheatre, that person cannot work anymore. He/she can be a healer an has special power (don't know them yet), but cannot work like a builder or scientist or farmer. So for a tribal chief choose someone, that u need less.
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It seems the order you put the plants into the alchemy pot makes a difference. The list compiled by MIWHALKI is great except that the order for ingredients is in some cases wrong. When the order is wrong the person doing the alchemy loses health

EDIT: this only seems to be the case when your alchemy is at level 1 and 2. Once your alchemy is fully upgraded the order doesn't seem to matter.
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If anyone would like to know....everything is post in the forum in Reflexive Arcade Support / Virtual Villagers 3
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Food-
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that is food resorses . But you need level 2 faction of enykind.
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