There are several mysteries that you need to solve as well as things that will help your villagers out.Ĭontrolling the game is very simple and only requires the mouse. The other goal besides staying alive is exploration. The villagers will continue doing what you have told them to most of the time, but occasionally they will explore or eat. The longer a villager performs a task the better they get at it. You will need to tell your villagers to perform tasks like gather food, research and build. After a while you stumble onto the dying tree of life where you begin work to save it. You pick five members for your team and then start your journey. You are selected to pick a team and lead an expedition to discover why Isola is dying. You start the game with a brief story about the tribe chief who notices that Isola is slowly dying. All this is going in real time, even when you aren't playing. The villagers will have to learn skills to heal the tree and other mysteries in the area. You are responsible for building shelter, gathering food, researching new technology and much more. In Virtual Villagers: Tree of Life, you get to control the lives of your villagers and their children while you investigate the mysterious failing health of the Tree of Life.