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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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[-] nomecks@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Does he like off road trucks? Spin Tires. My 5 year old loves it.

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

Reminds me I should see if monster jam is coming around again. He had fun there last year.

[-] maltasoron@sopuli.xyz 1 points 11 months ago

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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[-] HerbalGamer@sh.itjust.works 1 points 11 months ago

Just rediscovered Battlefield Heroes through the fanmade Rising Hub.
Pretty sure it's the perfect kinda game for a group of 10 year olds to play and socialize on.

[-] Crashumbc@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago
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[-] dominiquec@lemmy.world 0 points 11 months ago

Minecraft has been suggested here but there's also Minete St, free/open source version. The experience isn't exactly the same but the basics are there. Works with PC and Android. You can also run one of the computers as a host and you can do multiplayer. Absolutely no microtransactions.

[-] jackpot@lemmy.ml 0 points 11 months ago

your edit shouldnt be so aggressive, no one knew that and as we didnt know it wasnt judgemental to be mad

[-] progettarsi@feddit.it -1 points 11 months ago
[-] toastal@lemmy.ml -1 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Don’t do Minecraft when Minetest is open source. It’s not meant to be installed as vanilla per se tho as mods are for building gameplay and vanilla is just a sandbox/canvas to build Minecraft-like or addjacent games. Especially if you can get him on PC, I could be a hopskip away from creating his own open mods (as opposed to the content farm of underpaid “devs” for Roblox which have wild stories if you look it up).

Veloran is also a good alternative for free software with an adventure MMO aspect that might appeal to the guy.

Being projects without a profit motive & a strong community where the players are the developers is a safer route where you would never expect loot boxes, microtransacitions, dark/addictive patterns because those aren’t fun & money isn’t an incentive. With the source available your son is more than welcome to read it to figure out how games work, contribute ideas/code, & learn to make mods which are all great, real-life skills learned while accidentally gaming & trying to make the game better for yourself & friends—and if he’s not a future coder, there are assets & stories to build, or just playtesting a friend’s mod.

[-] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 1 points 11 months ago

We're already firmly invested in minecraft. I have the java edition on my computers - and he has bedrock on the xbox. It sucks that they arent compatible, but he's too young for a pc.

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[-] clearleaf@lemmy.world -2 points 11 months ago
[-] pivot_root@lemmy.world 1 points 11 months ago

Funny, but not a constructive answer. Props for not suggesting Custer's Revenge at least.

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