Game for an elderly gamer (needs to be simple and easy)

Thekwango said:
i can't help with game suggestions but i just wanted to say, well bloody done to your dad at 83 building a pc. i wish him many more years of good health to enjoy.
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Needed some help with the software setup, and the first motherboard and 4090 needed to be RMA'd, thankfully I could be with him for those bits, but the vast majority he's done himself. We built "our" first computer together probably over 30 years ago now, a trusty old SX25.

Horizon was another I was considering, but dodging attacks, and shooting moving targets may be tricky. Might suggest them though.

Definitely looking more at management style games I think. I see there's a new Settlers coming soon, will have to recommend that to him, Settlers (the original) and Gauntlet, were two games we used to play together when I was a kid.
 
Unseul said:
Needed some help with the software setup, and the first motherboard and 4090 needed to be RMA'd, thankfully I could be with him for those bits, but the vast majority he's done himself. We built "our" first computer together probably over 30 years ago now, a trusty old SX25.
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that's pretty cool you're getting to do this with your dad again. those who still have them sometimes don't appreciate their elderly parents as much as they should, me included. my auld fella is coming 82 but still very much active (still does a bit of joinery work for folk!) yet i don't spend anywhere near as much time with him as i really should.

fair play to you dude and enjoy.
 
Unseul said:
Needed some help with the software setup, and the first motherboard and 4090 needed to be RMA'd, thankfully I could be with him for those bits, but the vast majority he's done himself. We built "our" first computer together probably over 30 years ago now, a trusty old SX25.

Horizon was another I was considering, but dodging attacks, and shooting moving targets may be tricky. Might suggest them though.

Definitely looking more at management style games I think. I see there's a new Settlers coming soon, will have to recommend that to him, Settlers (the original) and Gauntlet, were two games we used to play together when I was a kid.
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out of interest, how do you think VR might work for him?

also :
firewatch - maybe - walking simulator

Hardspace: Shipbreaker - there is at least one ship type he would struggle wih but you have to select that ship so easily avoided (basically you have to beat fire before it gets to a valve and blows the ship up). it also has a free mode. its more a dismantling game it can be kind of relaxing.

five nights at freaddies - ? jump scare though and older people...

escape room games ?

Power wash simulator? and similar vain games
 
Amid Evil on easiest difficulty?

It has a sword/sorcery type theme and is quite striking, visually speaking. Very colourful.

It harks back to the likes of Hexen and Heretic, etc.
 
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I was thinking on slightly different lines. If you think 1st person perspective games (some of them graphically quite pleasing) plus elements of puzzle games with a slower pace, I would come up with:

Forgotten City
I'm on Observation Duty series
Recursive Ruin
Superhot series
Superliminal
Tacoma
Talos Principle
The Witness

Additional there's a whole host of escape room games such as:

Doors Paradox
Escape Room series
Escape Simulator Steampunk
House of DaVinci series
The Room series
 
Emo_hug said:
out of interest, how do you think VR might work for him?

also :
firewatch - maybe - walking simulator

Hardspace: Shipbreaker - there is at least one ship type he would struggle wih but you have to select that ship so easily avoided (basically you have to beat fire before it gets to a valve and blows the ship up). it also has a free mode. its more a dismantling game it can be kind of relaxing.

five nights at freaddies - ? jump scare though and older people...

escape room games ?

Power wash simulator? and similar vain games
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He's got a dodgy heart, so definitely not horror :D.

Told him to get a Q2 within 2 weeks of release since I'd got one. We'd play once a week together during lockdown. Not done it so often now since his hip is bad and he struggles to stand, and with the head injury it's made him dizzy a few times. I do hope to get back into a bit more though.

I'll send him a selection of the games already highlighted here, and we'll go from there. But any more suggestions are very welcome, since I can obviously keep passing them onto him.
 
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