Common Sense Media Review
By Christopher Healy
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based on child development research. How do we rate?
Young kids will like sim, but beware of push to buy extras.
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Smurfs' Village
Is It Any Good?
SMURFS' VILLAGE is one of the better, more interesting free build-a-village sims available for the iDevices. It's got a genuine storyline built into it, creative use of the Smurf characters (this feels like a real Smurf game, not just a city-sim with Smurfs layered over it), and a bunch of mini-games thrown in -- which is a rarity in these types of sim games. If you build a bakery, for instance, you can play a baking game for extra experience points. Unfortunately, it's got the same sort of sneaky salemanship that apps of this genre share -- meaning that impatient players will be enticed into spending real money on items that make the game move faster (and in this case, those costs can be stiff with a wheelbarrow of Smurfberries costing $49.99) -- but if you accept such marketing tactics as a given in these games, then you'll truly appreciate the innovations that Smurfs' Village brings to the genre.
App Details
- Devices : iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad
- Pricing structure : Free
- Release date : November 11, 2010
- Genre : Simulation Games
- Publisher : Beeline Interactive, Inc.
- Version : 1.0.0
- Minimum software requirements : iOS 3.0 or later
- Last updated : June 19, 2019
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