My 3 and 1/2 yr old grand daughter loves to play so much, we had to buy her VV2 for her own, and put it on her computer. She started out sitting on my lap and "helping" me play. Now she can teach her villagers skills, harvest crops, and has almost completed her shell collection! She doesn't know Grammy checks in ocassionally, when she has gone home, to make sure her village is surviving.