Game to play with a 3 year old boy

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Captain Keen Aug 3, 2023 @ 1:03am

Game to play with a 3 year old boy

I've done this before - but you know, games finish, and then you need new ones.

I've a 3yo son, and he loves sitting with me while we play a game. Great successes have been Hob, Planet of Lana, Max: Curse of Brotherhood. Less succesfull, Tunic and Time on Frog Island.

Think non-violent (or at least not too graphic), colorful, visually ... like, spectacular, but not in an Elden Ring way. Cartoony but fantastic, perhaps.

Any tips will be hugely appreciated.

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Lavie Aug 3, 2023 @ 2:14am

Hi!

Maybe some ideas here:
https://store.steampowered.com/curator/28220276-With-the-Kids/

Last edited by Lavie; Aug 3, 2023 @ 2:20am

feytharn Aug 3, 2023 @ 5:49am

All of the LEGO games.

Phénomènes Mystiques Aug 3, 2023 @ 5:58am

All of the Disney games...

Captain Keen Aug 3, 2023 @ 8:03am

Originally posted by feytharn:
All of the LEGO games.

Mnyeah - I tried one of the Lego Star Wars things, and it was just absurdly bad. Highest rating of the whole lot too. So ... perhaps not all of them.

Originally posted by Wynters:
All of the Disney games...

Never tried one. If I had to guess, they're ... plain awful? I'm not a great fan of Disney, I really like (most of) the Pixar stuff, but barely any of the ... like, Disney princess stuff. Vaiana - and nothing else.

MoonC A T Aug 3, 2023 @ 8:32am

https://store.steampowered.com/app/314020/Morphopolis/

https://store.steampowered.com/app/434210/Its_Spring_Again/

Captain Keen Aug 3, 2023 @ 11:12pm

Oh, Morphopolis looks interesting. Spring Again also looks cool. Educational games are often a problem - because I'm danish, and most educational games aren't. But this looks neat.

Captain Keen Aug 7, 2023 @ 1:09am

Hm - a danish link. Are you the owner? =D

I'll have to take a closer look, but a lot of that isn't really ... I mean, not precisely what I'm looking for. Those are games for kids, and those I can find easily. What I want is games with a target audience of ... well, not-kids. Like, my boy is just watching me play. What I want is for him to be dazzled by colorful, fantastical world building - while not being dragged through the mindless murder and bloodshed of most titles. Cartoon combat is fine, but I'd never play, say, Skyrim with him. Although he'd love the dragons.