Games my kids and I enjoy on Steam:
(Not Xbox sorry)
- Alba (such a cute story)
- FPS Chess
- Dinkum
- Webbd
- Tinykin
- Spiritfarer
- Wobbly Life
- LEGO adaptations of series
- Among Us (canned chat only)
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I'm still confused as to why you guys don't just ban the spending of money on micro transactions and not the game itself? Every game is jam PACKED with mtx these days, from CoD to Fortnite to Forza.
Roblox is well-known for predatory practices aimed at children, and predatory behavior from other users who may or may not be looking for children to abuse.
Banning Roblox entirely seems like a very reasonable thing to do IMO.
Every *multiplayer game
I play about a hundred games a year, and haven't opened a game with microtransactions in about half a decade.
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StarCraft 2. No friends, only ladder. Get him practicing now and he'll be winning RTS tournaments before he's 20 like Clem.
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At that age, maybe Among Us or Minecraft?
Those are already commonly played by him and his friends, so you were right to suggest them.
For a second I confused Among Us with The Last of Us. I thought that was a pretty messed up suggestion for a little kid lol
Maybe introduce him to Beyond All Reason? It's an RTS in the vein of Total Annihilation. Free and open source and very good looking.
Beyond All Reason
That game looks awesome. I need to check it out.
I recommend Astroneer - a solo / multiplayer survival game about collecting resources, refining stuff and building up bases on several planets. It's hecking fun in multiplayer and it doesn't have combat. There's a ton of things to do and if the kids are good at communicating with each other they can quickly conquer the game. The only microtransactiony stuff it has is cosmetics (but it's not being pushed upon you in any way), but you can unlock some of these through progression as well.
If you're that kind of person, throw away the Xbox too, pure garbage. Everyone deserves the open environment of a PC where one can tinker and learn about the system, maybe even make some mods for games.
All I've played is csgo growing up. Cool game