Games for Kids?

[TommyBarnez]

Hi all,

My new pc looks like it is going to be arriving tomorrow! It has got me thinking about games for kids as I have my niece and nephew staying in a couple of weeks and I have no doubt they'll want to have a go. Also I remember my first exposure to pc gaming when I was about their age when visiting my uncle. However I'm trying to work out what would be good games to get ready for them. They're not far off being 10. When I was their age I think I was playing wolfenstein 3d and prince of persia. They currently play star wars battlefront a bit on ps4 which their parents are ok with. Not having my own kids makes it hard to judge what is acceptable for that age.

At the moment I'm thinking about city builds as completely safe from a content point of view but might be too complicated or boring for them?

Any suggestions?

Thanks for help

Tom

 

[Oussebon]

There's https://www.commonsensemedia.org/ which, err, seems to have a particularly cautious approach to content.

Strategy games tend to be safer bets than RPGs and shooters, but if the parents are happy with Battlefront then perhaps there's a bit of flexibility.

 

[TommyBarnez]

Thanks Oussebon for the handy link. Yeah I found it odd that my sister and brother in law were fine with Battlefront but weren't fine with a game called Block Fortress on ipad which I showed them a year ago. Think the kids being big star wars fans impacts it a bit.