My kid is coming up on age 3 and I’ve been able to play Mariokart with him. He always loses obviously as he can barely understand the concept of ‘forward’!
I was wondering if there’s any recomendations on games that your littles were able to enjoy and actually get some positive feedback with? Maybe where you just explore and collect things and can build things up… Something accessible for a kid who can’t read but also makes for a chill downtime, bonding experience for the parent.
My son is 6yo so I have some experience. Usually, chill games like Little Big Planets, Astro Bot, or even Marios catches his attention(he loved goomba chasing mario around), as long as you are fine that they won’t “progress” the game at 3yo, then you are fine and just follow the age rating to select your game.
Another one is racing game, might be harder for them to play but my son loves watching me play rocket league, and I tried a couple racing games he was interested as well. For games that more or less played like roller-coaster rides usually attract him longer.
Then, another really good one is 3rd person open world games. As you can try communicate with him and have lots of conversation as well even when he can’t control the character yet. There should be children safe version, for me when I played AC:Odyssey, he just like me pilot the ship going around or go diving and get chased by the sharks. (I basically avoid fighting people when he is watching, and just doing puzzles, cave exploration, etc.)
Feel free to try a bunch of different games and see which one sticks. :) Remember don’t play games that frustrate your easily cause kids can tell if you are stressed.
Nintendo is hard to beat in the field of family friendly games. Captain Toad is probably the most child friendly game of them all. Mario Odyssey should probably be fun as well. Could really motivate him to learn counting as he looks for the collectibles.
He’s still pretty young to be a player 2, but he can still be your assistant!
Mario galaxy 1 and 2 let a second player play as luma, who can paralyze enemies, help mario jump and gather star shards.
It’s also a very soothing and (for an adult) easy game. I have fond memories of the music and all the various galaxies, if you can give it a try!
You can turn on assistance on MK8D. You can turn on auto accelerate and assisted steering. It is in the pause menu.
Kirby is a really good series for kids. The Switch had the retros as well that might be easier (2d instead of 3d).
Edit. Mario Odyssey has a assistance mode as well.
Edit 2: just thought of another with an easy mode, Yoshi on the Switch.
Kirby. Any Kirby.
@Thebazilly Kirby really does have a great level of depth and basically every title has fun little extras on top of the main game
I really enjoyed the co-op in Forgotten Land! Easy enough that anyone can play, but still fun and engaging, and absolutely skull-crushingly adorable. (If you rest in bed playing co-op, Kirby and Waddle-Dee cuddle and it is unbearably cute.)
@Thebazilly I totally forgot (ha) that Forgotten Land had a co-op mode! Need to try that still
