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.
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.
Any of the LEGO games are a great choice starting around ages 3 or 4. They use button picture prompts, and often obstacles can be overcome by the parent while the little one jumps around smashing things.
Re-enforces moving around in a 3d space, and gets good familiarity with button locations doing different things (while really only needing jump and punch for most things).
After a while with LEGO, started getting into games like Minecraft Dungeons - again parent can do most of the work while the little one tags along for the ride.
Was around age 5/6 that my son was able to pick up Minecraft - nothing sophisticated and again I did most of the building, but allowed him to contribute more than he had previous games, and strongly builds spatial awareness skills. Pokemon also became accessible as reading skills were good enough to understand what was on the screen.
