In the beginning, its super fun. Maybe thats why they hound you for a review so early on. Very quickly you learn that to do ANYTHING you have to constantly earn higher and higher numbers of tech points to buy levels of skills. If you could earn farming tech points for all your farming, or building tech points for your building (and just have the research table for general tech points that could be assigned anywhere) that would be great, but no. So you end up having 30 people crowded around the research table, with a couple people assigned to the other jobs, just so every couple days you can buy a level in some skill that is required to do the next puzzle. This game is like 10% actually doing new stuff and 90% leaving the village to research. I finished it, but it was so boring by the end. Deleting immediately.
Mollyglot about Virtual Villagers: Origins, v1.0.2