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?

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.

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

tintin82 · 6 Mar 2017 at 16:04

Tombstone said:
The mechanics are a little more basic than Banished and I figured the aesthetics might be more appealing than Banisheds

Cheers dude, this is great, he was instantly taken by it. Just what I was looking for!

tintin82 · 28 Sep 2017 at 06:14

Hi folks. So fast forward a few months since I created this thread and my boy is obsessed with Northgard. He is forever in the garden building pretend camps, chopping trees, pretending to be a berserker and bash his sister before becoming a healer to fix her up. He skipped over the fence the other day to tell my next door neighbour he is colonising his garden. Brilliant, imagination ad learning in complete overload, just what computer games should do.

So now I am looking for something to wean him off Northgard, can anyone recommend something similar, with the same strategic depth, but kid friendly. I was thinking one of the older Anno games?