My first LDW game (and VV game) was VV4. I also happened to find it on WildTangent (forgot how, but thought it looked interesting) so I went for the demo. Unfortunately, I didn't know how to solve a lot of the puzzles so my villagers ended up dying.

My favorite games are VV4 (I find the "Tree of Life" thing interesting), VV3 (the story is cool), VV5 (because instead of taking away a woman from the workforce to have a baby you can convert them into "believers"), and VF2 (the ability to customize and make your house your house, and not a premade one like VF1).