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Nonononono! Don't let your kid play this one if they're only 6 years old!
It's not what it looks like!
Well, Steam is a good place for that, though, iirc, kids under 13 need parental permission to join or they're just straight off violating the terms before they're even in middle school.
So, I'd recommend you stay away from phone games... they're almost all entirely ads or microtransactions.
Steam has some games with microtransactions, they're mainly big name titles you will probably want a 6 year old to stay away from anyways.
Literally every game that has more depth than "match 3 / match 5" & "click to get points" is educational in some way as they require the player to learn something or practice a skill - now that said, the most educational game that I know of is Wario Ware DIY for Nintendo DS (might have to order one in or visit a Pawn Shop to get one).
Wario Ware DIY teaches basics on MIDI software (making music), all the assets that go into making a game, making a game, and programming abstractions - plus if they don't know how to read, it might also help them learn how to read if you read it with them but you have to make sure they can read it or help them read it otherwise they're probably not going to learn much...
If you want them to have something to read, these are ones myself and my brother had growing up that our mother read with us when we were learning to read: Super Mario RPG, Paper Mario, Paper Mario: The Thousand Year Door, and Super Paper Mario. All which have actually quite an extensive amount of reading involved with them. (A good alternative to books for engaging a kid with reading.)
As for stuff on Steam...
Anyways... for a young child, Snakebird Primer is a good game (it's good for anyone really, except people who are already good at puzzles and want a greater challenge then the 30 minutes this $7 game can provide someone who is already good at puzzles).
If they're a bit better at puzzles and you want them to exercise their mind, I'd recommend Snakebird (not Primer) it has less levels but will probably take 40 hours to complete and that's if you're somewhat GOOD at puzzles... I know plenty of people who can't even beat level 2... hahahahaha... you should try it too. I won't get to see your reaction but just the thought of it amuses me, even if you can solve the puzzles, you will find that they quickly challenge most people.
You like puzzles? Well, you'll get even more of them with About Love, Hate and the Other Ones.
Also, I haven't played Baba Is You yet but that's the next big puzzle game I'm looking forward to playing.
One of my friends recommended against Baba Is You - he's not a big fan of puzzle games and he described it as "too similar to debugging code". So... your kid might not actually like that game but if they do, it's probably a great choice if you want them to learn something practical in today's day & age.
KNIGHTS is a nice puzzle game too, though, it's not very engaging.
Ultimate Tic Tac Toe is Tic Tac Toe... but BETTER! (& it's available for free on Steam.)
UT3 has the default classic gameplay but then it has Ultimate mode and let me tell you... Ultimate mode turns Tic Tac Toe into a tactical strategy game. Strategy might not apply very well to the classroom but it's a good skill to work on for a variety of abstract situations one might face in life, or at least to exercise the mind with something productive enough.
Here's a number of other games in my library that I've labeled as "Fuss Friendly" (ie. they're kid friendly and there's pretty much no chance that a parent should get upset about the content of these games... at all):
- Grey Cubes
- Let the Cat In
- the entire "qop" series
- the entire "Zup!" series
...and that's all I've got in that list for now.
Here are items that I have listed as "Kid Friendly" that a more uptight adult might not want their kid to play:
- Airscape: The Fall of Gravity
- Downwell
- Drop Alive
- Super Treasure Arena
- Suzy Cube
- Undtertale
I really recommend all of these to anyone but especially a kid.
Downwell doesn't seem like it has much of a plot until you get to the end of the game and it reminds you about the important things. (
Drop Alive is also free - it has a few bugs and not a lot of depth but perhaps it will teach your kid something about the 3 states of matter and temperature? ...probably not, though.
Don't buy Super Treasure Arena at full price. Most people can't get more than an hour out of this game (I'm an exception - I've played it for about 10 hours) and the developer doesn't bother adding those online servers he advertised back in the game (spoilers: it doesn't have Online multiplayer anymore!)
- Suzy Cube is a Super Mario 3D World rip-off. It doesn't hold my attention for long periods of time but I keep revisiting it on a regular basis and making more progress. The soundtrack could be a lot better, though... that's something Super Mario never gets wrong...
- Undertale is a game that touches on the subject of morality and tries to disincentivize you from doing the wrong thing, but being a video game, most people are going to go all the way down the bad path because obviously there's going to be something amazing at the end. Be warned, though, Undertale gives new meaning to the word "permanent" in a way that few games ever do.
Oh, and like the Mario RPG games that I listed, Undertale will also have a lot of reading. So either a kid will need to know how to read or you'll have to help them by reading it to them. Also, if you're big on the gender representation thing, good news, the main character is ambiguous.
Oh, also, your kid will probably love Insaniquarium Deluxe (also available on Steam), although it's mostly just pointless "point & clicking". I loved that game when I was younger before it was on Steam...
I also have over 1000 hours in Terraria (played it on 3DS also - wouldn't recommend that version unless some people want to play it together on a road trip) - it really inspires creativity but doesn't have a lot of "educational" content to offer. It's just fun... I can't even say it's clean because of the blood and demonic sacrifice...
Admittedly a few of these items might be a bit advanced for someone who is 6 years old (Undertale's age rating is 10+, and most RPGs will have the same rating due to the reading requirement) but someone who is 6 years old won't stay 6 years old and all of these items will become appropriate much quicker than you might realize.
That's a bit more than I meant to write but I could really keep going, actually. Feel free to reach out if you want to know more of my thoughts on this subject. I may or may not respond, idk.
its free and it doesnt enduce violence because nobody dies and its not rated R!
Minecraft is nice too but just don't let her get into it's community.
Even for adults, Minecraft is best played with close friends and family, not strangers.
At least you can walk across the hall and slug the little slug who thought burying TNT around your home with a pressure plate at the door is funny.
Enjoy!
{Sorry, I didn't realize when I posted this that recommending games on Steam is "spam" , but maybe that's only when you link them as part of a discussion & unlike the rest of the "spammers" in this topic, I didn't actually link to any so this post should still be good.}
I haven't played most of them but most of these look really appropriate for kids.
I tend to prefer games that are better for kids & have no micro-transactions but given that I haven't gotten around to playing most of these, you'll have to check it out yourself to make sure it's appropriate and don't upsell you:
- Bombergrounds
- Cognizer
- Curvatron
- The Desolate Hope
- Drop Alive
- Epic Battle Fantasy 3
- Grimm's Hollow
- Hue Bots
- Influent
- Let the Cat In
- Mimpi Dreams
- Mobile Astro
- Moonbase Alpha
- Never Split the Party
- Princess Remedy: In a World of Hurt
- Realm of the Mad God
- Royal Crown
- Sono
- Ultimate Tic Tac Toe
- Viridi
- WAKFU
- Yume Nikki
Bombergrounds: seems to be a Bomberman rip-off but MMO & cuter.
Cognizer: seems to be a simple matching puzle game.
Curvatron: It's the old phone game, Snake, but curvy! ...and more spacious.
The Desolate Hope: Made by the same developer of Five Nights at Freddies, this game seems to have nothing to do with Five Nights. it does look like quite a strange but fun platformer, though.
Drop Alive: pretty simple little game. You play as a living drop of water that needs to find its way through the levels before it evaporates. You can drink water along the way and touch certain things to change forms between solid, liquid, and gas (ice, water, water-vapor).
Epic Battle Fantasy 3: I don't know anything about this game other than it appears to be based on Final Fantasy.
Grimm's Hollow: It's an RPG so there's lots of reading, probably good to read with your kid if you want them to learn about reading. I haven't played it yet but it looks like one of the better ones for a younger child. (Rewatching this trailer right now, I think I might actually want to play this more than Baba Is You now...)
Hue Bots: A puzzle game with colored robots. I don't really see how this could be inappropriate for kids but I haven't played it.
Influent: Content-wise this appears to be very kid friendly, it's just that I'm not sure that learning other languages (especially in this manner) is appropriate for younger children but then I've also heard that it's best for people to learn many languages at a young age so... you be the judge.
Let the Cat In: So, try not to be disappointed but the game is unfinished and never will be finished. You can not 100% complete this game. Now that said, there's plenty of decent little puzzle levels in it. I've actualy played this game and while I haven't finished it, I found it to be quite friendly for everyone and adorable. There's not really anything of concern in this game. The puzzles aren't anything to write home about, I think, but it IS a puzzle game. Now get to it! Grandma put a lot of work into that Rube Goldberg machine for answering the door - let the cat in!
Mimpi Dreams: A cross between puzzle, platformer, and casual. Pretty appropriate for kids, not sure if it has giant spiders in it like the original "Mimpi" does. I hate spiders and your kid probably will too because that's pretty normal for a human...
Mobile Astro: Looks like Xevious but newer. Should be pretty kid friendly except for the fact that games like this technically have you piloting a war ship but kids don't think about that. I know I didn't think about it until I got older.
Moonbase Alpha: A simulation "game" made by NASA (part of the USA government) for simulating moon landings. Completely non-violent. Not much else to say other than uuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu John Madden. aeio
Never Split the Party: Kids like games like this. Looks appropriate, I haven't played it, it isn't going to teach them much of anything, though. Beware, it has an online mode so... not sure what that entails.
Princess Remedy In a World of Hurt: Another RPG, requires reading, help your kid read it or wait til they can read. I never got past the first dialogue because I was so frustrated with the fact that the game was rendering the pixel graphics very blurry on my system instead of with crisp edges. I wrote about it in my review, which you can use to work-around that problem if you have it (lucky you) instead of wasting 3 hours fiddling with trying to fix it, like I did. The blurriness problem only affects select computers and you might actually be completely unaffected. Here's my review:
https://steamcommunity.com/id/maturecat/recommended/407900?snr=1_5_9__402
Realm of the Mad God: MMO (online play). I haven't gotten around to it (probably because I keep making posts like this instead of finishing my computer work, room cleaning, & actually playing them... lucky you). The online chat feature is probably the most questionable one for kids. Not sure if you can turn that off but if they're on Steam, they can chat with people anyways, unless they have a limited account (see: an account that hasn't had $5 added to it for any reason) - then the kid can only chat with people who added them to their friends list and without being able to make any posts... why would anyone add them?
Royal Crown: Also an MMO, same issues, though I don't see a chat feature in the trailer so that might not be an issue but MMOs typically make their money off of micro-transactions. This one looks like one of the better fantasy based MMOs that I've ever seen.
Sono: Absolutely beautiful. It's unclear what you're playing as, if it's a tiny lifeform or a spaceship. Appears to be some sort of tiny life-form. Doesn't appear to have ANY reading at all other than the title & credits. Single player - I'm having a very hard time seeing any possibility that this could be inappapropriate for kids either.
Ultimate Tic Tac Toe: I mentioned this in my previous post. It's entirely kid friendly. Now play it with your kid and watch yourself LOSE at Tic Tac Toe since you haven't practiced it in however many decades, lol.
Viridi: Appears to be some sort of zen game. Probably pretty good for relaxation. I can't see how this would be bad for kids in any way either unless there's something comepletely out of the ordinary for the game experience in the game, which most games don't do that.
WAKFU: MMO that looks like Final Fantasy Tactics Advance. I haven't gotten around to playing it, which is a shame because a group of my friends were playing it recently - but boy do I want to! FFTA is my third favorite game ever and I always wished it had multiplayer.
Yume Nikki: This is a surreal game. It has some scary things in it but I -think- a kid can probably handle them. I haven't played it still but this was very popular among my friends when we were in our early teens. I don't see much reason as to why anyone would need to be a teenager to play this game, though. It's probably fine for younger kids (how young, I don't know). The most scary thing in the game is the UBOA. iirc, you only see UBOA if you're mean to what I think is Yume's sister.
Also:
- Pro Office Calculator
I forget what's special about this & I haven't played it yet but I know that it's not actually just a calculator, though. I forget wht the surprise was. Rewatching the trailer, I see that it won't actually give you the correct answers so that's probably the joke so... maybe don't get this one for your kid... they won't get the joke and will get lots of wrong answers. Read the reviews, apparently this is a puzzle game.
- Cube Escape Paradox
This is listed as a horror game but it looks like a horror game that might be appropriate for younger kids. I don't know, though, I haven't gotten around to playing it. It's pretty tame looking, though, comparatively to other horror games that are popular with kids like Five Nights at Freddies, which I totally wouldn't recommend but then I wouldn't ever play Five Nights myself so I might not be the best person to get an opinion on that one from.
- Helltaker
This isn't very dark or traumatic, I think, it's just that what I know about the content makes it slightly inappropriate for younger audiences. It's a puzzle game, btw.
- Path of Exile
MMO (online mode) but it has a single player mode too. I haven't played it, looks unsuitable for a young child, though, namely just due to the complexity. It looked really good to me so I added it to my library but to be honest, a game like this is typically a bit too busy for me and I'm even an adult. Maybe check it out for yourself before making a judgement.
Also, when your kid gets a lot older, Doki Doki Literature Club, which is currently available for free, might actually be more appropriate but probably not until then. I haven't played it but I know that it touches on some actually really dark subjects. Plus... it knows things...
Similar with The Stanley Parable Demo (which is a separate, completely different, game from The Stanley Parable). This isn't appropriate for anyone who isn't a teenager yet due to some of the jokes it makes but is simply amazing! I recommend the full game too but again... not for a younger child.
MetaWare High School: Also better suited for teenagers, though, not necessarily as dark as Doki Doki Literature Club. In this game YOU play as the scary thing. I'm pretty sure the player is a cosmic horror but seeing as how there's no mirrors in the game, I can't be sure about that.
...& there it is... the Free to Play list that I always wished someone would have written for me. Though, this is incomplete. If you go looking you'll find a lot more high quality free games. Please let me know if you do.
Links to the Steam store are, apparently, spam.
Doesn't matter what the title, description, or content of the game or topic is:
Stardew Valley is probably not the best game for a little kid to play just because of the storyline of some of the villagers like Shane. But other than that its not a bad game for a kid.
You could play Child of Light and let her be the firefly if that would be interesting to her (doubth it).
There's also a decent site filled with neat flash games called Friv I think.
Really no one...
https://store.steampowered.com/app/730/CounterStrike_Global_Offensive/?l=german
And I almost forgot:
https://store.steampowered.com/app/341940/Hatred/
Seems perfect for the kid's in my opinion.
https://store.steampowered.com/app/21130/LEGO_Harry_Potter_Years_14/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/224700/The_Game_of_Life/
https://store.steampowered.com/app/962580/Summer_in_Mara/