Parents' Guide to

Smurfs' Village

By Christopher Healy, Common Sense Media Reviewer

age 10+

Young kids will like sim, but beware of push to buy extras.

App iPhone , iPod Touch , iPad Free Simulation Games
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A Lot or a Little?

What you will—and won't—find in this app.

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age 8+

Based on 6 parent reviews

Theo D.
Theo D. Adult
September 25, 2018
age 6+

Started off fun, but slowly became boring.

This title has:

Easy to play/use
Too much consumerism
wesm1
wesm1 Adult
July 11, 2015
age 10+

Very disappointing. Do not order super duper resource machine. They don't tell you it breaks in few days .and you have to pay again. They are bunch of ripoff..never again

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Is It Any Good?

Our review:
Parents say (6 ):
Kids say (7 ):

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.

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