My 9yo daughter has a tablet with family link, so I can monitor what apps she wants to install. As the garbage games are mostly at the top free, she keeps asking for games that I reject, in most cases because it’s riddled with ads.
The Play Store has a section for kids, which seems to have better quality apps and games. Also thinking to subscribe to Play Pass so she can try out paid games.
Any other tips? Especially how to find good free / paid games. I don’t mind paying for good games.
Also I’m aware I can block ads using eg Pi Hole (already doing that) or sometimes putting it on airplane mode, but that’s not my point. I want to find and support quality games.
Emulation full stop Anything else is a waste of time or a risk to get your kids addicted
Spelltower is a classic. Still might have ads but they’re less intrusive, and it’s educational but it probably won’t be boring
Emulation, geometry dash, Minecraft.
I’m doing some scraping on the playstore, there is few stuff that has no ads nor in app purchases
I posted a few here on https://lemmy.fbmac.net/c/free_android_games
I’ve made it a link that works from all instances : /c/free_android_games@fbmac.net thanks!
Ahh… I remember simpler times when we had proper handheld devices… and not having to deal with ads bullshit (shovelware was a thing though).
Perhaps the Nintendo Switch might be a good option down the road?
If not I agree about Chinese handhelds, there are so many out there and they keep improving over time.
Yeah was thinking about a switch, but I’m a bit reluctant due to high cost of games. They mainly use the tablet to game while traveling, at home they play with their toys or on the xbox.
