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Besides of that the game can be a bit demanding for a 10yo, as its a survival game where you will often get eaten and have to restart the game.
Besides of that, if he learns to hide well when he is a baby, and learns to defend/attack as an adult, he will enjoy it. I still think its a little difficult for that age, but then again, you are playing with your own realistic dinosaur, so it's awesome anyway.
Chat can be hidden if he/you wish, he can still join groups with a "friendly call" (returning a friendly call allows you to see their name indicating you are in the same group.. must be same species), no need to chat after that, just follow others lead and expect to die eventually, it can be a brutal survival game at times
Would be more fun if you/sibling/cousin/friend played with him
First of all, The Isle - Evrima is in Early Access and really just at the beginning of development. Very few content. The avaiable content is still buggy and other bugs always reappear with every update. To play it now u need to have a very long breath to not get frustated and quit playing the game. Don't give your child a game where more things are broken than working.
Secondly, its a multiplayer survival game, hence u play with others. The community can be and is a bit of a salty one 'cause to survive u have to kill other players and many rage at you for killing them. Not sure if it is possible to disable chat completly... but it is possible to hide the chat, though it is very easy to unhide the chat.
Since it is a multiplayer game , u will most likely play with others. But rule nr. 1 for this game is - don't trust anyone except yourself. U will be backstabbed eventually.
Also this game can be very time consuming since u will start as a baby dinosaur and it takes up to 5.5h for the largest dinosaur to grow up. Till than it is most of the times, hide and not get eaten by bigger dinosaurs.
You can make friends with anyone else on the same server as you. You can't turn this off, although you can say no to them.
This game is a survival game, other players will be killing your sons character.
There is and will be even more gore in future. (Eating other characters, blood, guts etc).
The game can be somewhat complex/frustrating as other players can kill your character and you must also kill other players.
There's a 75% off special going on for PixARK, so it's worth a try to see if your kid likes it.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/593600/PixARK/
When it comes to the point where i would let my sons play this game alone/by themselves i wouldnt do so before they are 14 or older.
Maybe you can coop-play and you let your son watch you too and mybe let him control your dinosaur from time to time as a start?
concenring the caht - they only speak german and dont understand english so far. hosting you rown server is of course also a good idea.
To top it all off, there are horrifying mutants planned for the future, and the lore itself contains some very dark elements of suicide, endless suffering and other dark elements.
And lots of 12 years old are ''mature'' enough, we obviously don't know the same kind of kids lol
It's really up to the parents whether they're ready or not. All I'm saying, is the game (by standard) is not at all designed to be used by children. Kids still play Call of Duty even though that's been rated M for years, but I'd argue The Isle will be far more brutal than anything they'd see on CoD or another popular, M-rated game.
Check out the game The Forest and watch the trailer(s)/check out the horror elements present in it. If you think graphic depictions of mutated, mutilated humans, desecrated corpses and effigies consisting of body parts crudely adorning spears and posts, not to mention full frontal nudity is suitable for your 10 year old, then I'm sure The Isle's future content would be fine...
Otherwise might wanna look into Path of Titans instead which is going to be a dinosaur MMO, not a horror game.
1. The Community is a lot smaller and a lot more toxic than it used to be. Most people play in groups and aren't friendly to outsiders. There is basically no content outside of multiplayer so dealing with these groups is unavoidable. A lot drama happens around the game and development, which your child probably shouldn't be exposed to.
2. The Isle has been regressing and developing for 5 years. It is unlikely to ever be finished. All of the above statements about a 'horror' experience probably won't be added until your kid is an adult anyway.
3. The most important reason is this game is a horrible time sink. It was better before with a larger more open community and when the game still had novelty to it. Most of the time people play this game in single long sittings 3+ hours. The game play loop is to walk around and try grow to adult as the biggest dinosaur possible which takes many hours. The problem is you are reset to zero when you die, so you repeat the early loop over and over. Any 10 year old should spend shorter sessions on video games, and games that are more challenging and stimulating an environment. (strategy, puzzle, adventure games) The rest of the time should be focused on school, athletics, and developing social skills with their peers. A lot of people here won't understand but it is important now to set up your son to have the best future possible when he becomes an adult.