Agreed. Unless VF3 has something that actually resembles some kind of story or end objective to hold the player's attention (achievements don't count), but I'm not holding my breath and personally I hope that VF3 is the last in the Virtual Families series. It's true that VV5 caused a lot of controversy that LDW could easily have avoided by replacing "Converting the heathens" with "Making a new friend" and the Devotion bar with Diplomacy, and it's certainly not a game that I will ever replay unless I can find a mod to that effect, but like the other VV games, at least there were clear goals.

Getting back on topic though, I have to say I'm looking forward to the Mystery Game (when do we get to know what it's called?). It seems like something brand new and that's never a bad thing

Sorry if I missed something, but does this mean Lonely Pets has been dropped?

Are you implying that a niche of a niche isn't profitable enough to develop? Especially for a game that was released a decade ago? The remake probably has been dropped by now. /sarcasm

Is it confirmed that the Mystery Game is called Virtual Town, or am I missing something? I heard that it was going to be called Virtual Town, but I'm just double checking.

https://twitter.com/lastdayofwork/status/673576956680667136
It's official!

Awesome!

From the looks of the mystery game pics it could very easily be a new version of the pets. I could easily see pet training or possibly a pet park incorporating something like the Virtual Town and making it a pet park to explore and have peeps to take care of the pets with breeding different kinds of pets, growing food for the pets or possibly a town with pets.