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Single player games fun to play around tv / switch controls : Firewatch - about 6 to 10 hours narrative walking exploring adventure with beautiful scenery. Teens and up probably. Outer wilds : astonishing space exploration game. So many mysteries and puzzles and wonders and connections to be made. Cannot recommend highly enough. Tale of two brothers. There's sadness in this game but handled very well. If you're ready…
A few years ago I played 'Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons' [0] and it was a great experience. The game design centers around pretty good storytelling and with a single player you co-op two brothers. [0] https://store.steampowered.com/app/225080/Brothers__A_Tale_o...
I thought the game was designed for two people to share a single controller??
Let’s step back and look at this a bit objectively - there are various forms of “gameplay” but many involve violence of some sort as that’s one of the easiest to “figure out what to do”. But there are others - off-hand I can think of: * puzzle solvers (Portal, Phoenix Wright, etc) * simulations (city builders, etc) * driving games (racing, boats, etc) * discovery (often a form of puzzle game, but there are things lik…
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I'm not sure I understand this comment. For the record I downvoted it because I don't think it makes any sense.
OK retry: Portal is a great game, with a good story. But part of this greatness is the psychological games it plays with you. Hence people need to have enough maturity to deal with this. Hence this is not a good game for playing with younger kids, even if there is almost no graphical violence in it.
Single player games fun to play around tv / switch controls : Firewatch - about 6 to 10 hours narrative walking exploring adventure with beautiful scenery. Teens and up probably. Outer wilds : astonishing space exploration game. So many mysteries and puzzles and wonders and connections to be made. Cannot recommend highly enough. Tale of two brothers. There's sadness in this game but handled very well. If you're ready…
Is "Tale of Two Brothers" supposed to be "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons?"
Subnautica is fantastic. A very nice mysterious story and amazing atmosphere. I think you might be able to kill the sea creatures, but I didn't as it is really not the point. If you don't have Thalassophobia yet, you will by the end!
Outer Wilds. (Not to be confused with Outer Worlds which came out around the same time.) While the game is non-violent in that you never actively harm anything, your character will die, a lot, in maybe concerning ways (crushed, out of air, crashed, etc). It also has a story with themes that may be over your kids’ heads. Look up reviews to see more.
I wish I could forget this game and play through anew. It does contain spoilers but the games creator wrote a masters thesis on this game[1]. [1] https://digitallibrary.usc.edu/Share/o7d2vbuapqgd2mkjke8j752...
I'm struggling myself to find videogames for my daughter (almost 4). She played Kirby star allies and Yoshi's Crafted World (both finished now), but after that I've been struggling to find any meaningful game that had the right difficulty, right theme and didn't have the requirement of being able to read. I avoid all tablet games because there is too much garbage. Anyway, depending on the age of your kids, those two…
FYI some games my son has enjoyed that had reasonable difficulty and/or co-op so we can play together: * Super Mario Odyssey * Sackboy: A Big Adventure * Captain Toad: Treasure Tracker * Paw Patrol Games (gameplay maybe a bit too simple though) * Overcooked 1 & 2 * Untitled Goose Game * Ultimate Chicken Horse * Astro's Playroom
Super Mario Odyssey was good early on, but now she gets bored because it's too easy to play as the hat. If she plays as mario, it's too boring for myself, but playing by herself is still too challenging.
The other ones, I will try! Paw Patrol is indeed too easy, she played harder games with me (we played together Sundered, which is metroidvania coop, quite hard for myself too) and I was keeping an eye on it and determined she would learn anything new from it.
It's particularly challenging to find for kids "hard but not frustrating" because their frustration meter is quite lower than that of an adult.
I'm struggling myself to find videogames for my daughter (almost 4). She played Kirby star allies and Yoshi's Crafted World (both finished now), but after that I've been struggling to find any meaningful game that had the right difficulty, right theme and didn't have the requirement of being able to read. I avoid all tablet games because there is too much garbage. Anyway, depending on the age of your kids, those two…
Super Monkey Ball Banana Mania: Don't get Banana Blitz HD, the camera controls suck. If you're unfamiliar with Monkey Ball: Monkeys in balls navigate puzzles to get from the start to the finish in as little time as possible. Originally an arcade game. Sponsored by Dole, the banana people. Tetris Effect: It's Tetris! With lots of shiny colors! I'm not the hugest fan of how they set up the grading system, but it has lo…
I love video games, but consider reading books to you children. Much better, deeper stories and less violence!