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submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

As we all know, Roblox is garbage tier gameplay structured around psychological cues to get children to fill an endless pit with fake money bought with real money.

So I banned my kid from it. He used it a little bit socially with a few friends of his. What online or local multiplayer games should I help him to replace it with? (He's 10, so please don't recommend Diablo 4 or anything else that has quite that much gore)

He and his friends have an Xbox Series X|S at home.

Edit: keep your judgemental shit out of here. His whole social group (5 kids he knows from school) got banned on the same day. Me and the other parents are trying to be nice and replace it with better quality games so it isn't just a punishment.

Edit2: Thanks guys. I got him Lee Carvallo's Putting Challenge

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[-] JamesBean@kbin.social 7 points 11 months ago

Every *multiplayer game

I play about a hundred games a year, and haven't opened a game with microtransactions in about half a decade.

[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 6 points 11 months ago

My squad has been addicted to Phasmophobia since Halloween, no microtransactions in sight!

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 5 points 11 months ago

Lol I think survival horror might be a few years too early for him and his cohorts

[-] Carnelian@lemmy.world 3 points 11 months ago

It builds character! Lol but, yeah phasmo is too intense for many of my adult friends, even.

Out of curiosity, do you generally know what he was doing on Roblox? I’ve heard of several horror games being remade within Roblox, such as Iron Lung. I’ve wondered what the limitations are. I definitely remember stumbling into some intense things when I was around that age, but the landscape is so different now

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 4 points 11 months ago

He was wasting time playing shitty games because his other friends played those same shitty games. I was taken aback at how mind numbingly shitty those games were. We were in the same room as an Xbox with gamepass and a Nintendo Switch and he chose to play some seriously bad games instead because his friend was addicted to it. Then he became addicted to it. Luckily, that whole friends group will now have much, much better games to play.

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