Virtual Families is a casual family sim that runs in true real time. Adopt a little person from the thousands of choices of little people who live inside your computer. Encourage them to work in their chosen career to earn money for necessities and luxuries, help them choose a suitable mate, start and raise a family, let them kick back with a variety of leisure activities, and take care of and improve their home. Along the way, there will be many different random events to respond to, house malfunctions to repair, and mini-puzzles to solve, all of them adding an unexpected element to the daily routine. Features: -Real-time game play, like all LDW games. -Unique and fascinating adoptees from thousands of combinations -Fully trainable people: shape and adapt their personalities through praising and scolding! -Dynamic illness system. Play Doctor! -Over 100 trophies that can be earned for almost every area of game play. -Hidden puzzles around the house. -Email 'events' and other random, unpredictable occurrences. -Weather, as well as day/night cycles that are synchronized to the player's system clock, so it is nighttime in the game when it is nighttime where you are! -Uses the technology behind Virtual Villagers for an accessible and stable player experience -Includes the Official LDW Game Guide Source: The Developer Website.