Wholesome strategy game for five year old?

tintin82 · 5 Mar 2017 at 11:39

As the title says, looking for a decent strategy game for my five year old. He loves the Lego games, but I am keen to 'steer' him towards strategy so there is a bit of thinking at educational value.
Thinking along the line of a basic settler type game, with basic resource management, and little / no violence.

Any recommendations?

DONOHUE07 · 5 Mar 2017 at 11:53

Look into Game Dev Story

DONOHUE07 · 5 Mar 2017 at 11:54

Just had a thought, also Sim City

hornetstinger · 5 Mar 2017 at 12:00

Age of Empires? Also get concepts of civilisations "evolve"

CapitalOne · 5 Mar 2017 at 12:03

Caesar 2/3

"plebs are needed!"

andicole0 · 5 Mar 2017 at 12:03

Cities: Skyline is rated for 3 years and above.
Andi.

Haggisman · 5 Mar 2017 at 12:17

Banished? No combat, although it can be pretty tough going!

tintin82 · 5 Mar 2017 at 12:33

Banished would be ideal if it was a bit more user friendly for young ones. The concept is exactly what's I'm looking for.

Hawk Tuah · 5 Mar 2017 at 13:08

My 6 year old is obsessed with Age of Empires now.

Ryan0r · 5 Mar 2017 at 17:50

Settlers II 10th anniversary edition. Cute, accessible graphics but plenty layers of mechanics.

Plus teaches flows like: chop down trees to make planks of wood to build buildings, so need to employ a forester to plant trees (not at the start when they're plentiful, granted), a lumberjack, a dude for the sawmill, etc etc.

Lots of good lessons to be learned and can be muddles though on easy with loads of resources at first.

ED209 · 5 Mar 2017 at 22:39

What about command and conquer or supreme commander?

hornetstinger · 5 Mar 2017 at 22:40

ED209 said:
What about command and conquer or supreme commander?

C&C but no way Supreme Commander.

heartburnron · 5 Mar 2017 at 23:19

There are a few older RTS Star Wars games. Empire at War (2006) still looks decent.

Tombstone · 5 Mar 2017 at 23:53

How about that new title Northgard? Along the same lines as Settlers

Hedge · 6 Mar 2017 at 06:43

Just get him on Minecraft. Expands upon the lego concept and all the kids love it.

I think trying to get a five yr old into strategy gaming sounds a bit much.

tintin82 · 6 Mar 2017 at 08:23

Tombstone said:
How about that new title Northgard? Along the same lines as Settlers

That Northguard looks cool. Is is pretty basic mechanics or is it more in depth as Banished?

tintin82 · 6 Mar 2017 at 08:24

Hedge said:
Just get him on Minecraft. Expands upon the lego concept and all the kids love it.

I think trying to get a five yr old into strategy gaming sounds a bit much.

You would be surprised

But yeah I shall look into minecraft

hornetstinger · 6 Mar 2017 at 08:24

Total War.

heh

adolf hamster · 6 Mar 2017 at 08:57

tintin82 said:
You would be surprised But yeah I shall look into minecraft

the modpacks are worth looking into, many have different themes and goals. whilst the whole "punch trees, make house, find food, mine ore, craft stuff" element of minecraft is still there there's a lot of mods (like redpower) for instance that have tools like logic gates etc that allow you to build awesome control circuits and learn some basic understanding of how logic works and how to construct a system, build a factory to process things etc. like everything in minecraft it's only a very loose interpretation of reality but still educational to a point.

be warned anything bar lan multiplayer on minecraft is a really fun thing to get set up.

i'd say the civilisation/anno series might also be worth looking into, if maybe a bit complicated at first. plus they can be played as co-op or versus multiplayer.

Deus Ex · 6 Mar 2017 at 10:02

Civ 5?