Games for Kids

[Cyanide]

Hi guys,

Can anyone recommend some good games to play with my daughter? She loves playing on the PC/Xbox with me but at the moment I've got a very limited selection of games she can play (GoW, Dyling Light etc not really suitable!)

At the moment I'm restricted to the likes of driving games and Zoo Tycoon (which admittedly she does love)

It doesn't have to be amazing graphically, as long as it's something with some fun gameplay. She's not quite 3 yet so she can't do much herself but she loves sitting and helping me play, learning about computers etc.

Cheers

 

[Cyanide]

Have a look at the Putt-Putt games

I remember those! I'll do some digging and see what I can get!

Might be a bit young but lego games are great she can run around smashing things quite easily while you do the puzzles. Nice and colourful too.

I've been tempted by Lego Avengers for a while, this could be my excuse

Cities Skyline,
Minecraft.

I've got Minecraft (usually just play it drunk with the Mrs) but I think she's a bit young to get in to it as it takes a while to get started. Might give it a go though, can't hurt to try it!

 

[Cyanide]

Farming Simulator 2015, my 5 year old loves playing this, and my have some friends with younger kids (2, 3) who love watching.

I can just picture me trying to play it and her sat singing Old McDonald

Call of duty? i'm sure every other 3 year old is playing it.

On a serious note, Roller coaster tycoon? New one is coming out soonish, but RCT3 is still quite fun.

Just fun to build a ride in sandbox mode with unlimited cash.

YES! We're going to Chessington in a couple of weeks so she'll love that afterwards!

 

[Cyanide]

Cities Skylines
Any lego game
Brothers a tale of 2 sons (you can play this together, it's great fun and a nice storyline)

They have loads of the Disney games on Steam at the moment, they usually go into the sales so keep an eye out for Christmas.

My 2 love Minecraft, I hatez it but they seem entertained. Also the Sims games are pretty cool, I use the unlimited money cheat so they can design and build their own house and buy all the cool stuff.

I'll look in to Disney stuff and Sims - a lot of it's going to go on my YouTube channel so I've gotta check how they are with copyright etc

 

[Cyanide]

RTC, Minecraft and some sort of Lego game are definitely top of the list at the moment. It'll be good to get her on the PC - a lot of it up to now has been on the Xbox so I can use the DVR but I've got Shadowplay now

I think I'll give her my Pi and load some games for her too, it'll run Minecraft won't it?

 

[Cyanide]

Thanks for all the tips, we had a crack on RCT3 tonight and she had a great time sitting on my knee for all the 'on-ride' bits

I'm going to try to blag a copy of Lego Marvel soon as well!

 

[Cyanide]

 

[Cyanide]

Grand theft auto 5
Postal 2
Doom 3

I do remember the time she walked in as I was playing MKX and her reaction to a fatality was "Daddy, is that man sad?"

Oh, non voilent ?

Original 2d Rollercoaster tycoon games.
Zoo tycoon ( 2d ones!)
Sims ( girls seem to love the sims)
Civilization series ( I started with original sid meiers civilization at age of 7 or 8 or so) ?

Personally when I was little I played Commander Keen, tetris, paratrooper, etc... Simple 16 or 256 color games. Then I moved on to age of empires, c&c games, red alert, knights and merchants, settlers, etc...

Disney games sound a little, dumb, I learned a lot of English from games like Knights and Merchants or Settlers, and a lot about materials eg. how iron comes from iron ore, how you can turn grain into four and then into bread, etc...

For the age of 3 though, probably quite complex though. At this age Disney games are fine I guess, as are simple games like Bejewled or other popcap (puzzle) games.

You'd be amazed at how much she picks up, she's had my geekyness passed on to her since she was a newborn, she's had access to a (basic) computer at nursery from 9 months and she's asked for a laptop for Christmas.

I don't think it'll be long before I get to do a build log with her