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These are the games we've just added to the database this month, because they are of particular interest to families. You can read more about how we hand-pick games for a few reasons:

Importance: They are important for parents to know about, perhaps because of some unexpected content.
Popularity: They are really popular with children, who will be asking to play them.
Significance: They offer an unusual experience we think families will love.

This list includes 2760 games from the last 88 years, with 40,197 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to discover new games.

List Details

PEGI Ratings: PEGI 3 to PEGI 18
ESRB Ratings: ESRB EVERYONE to ESRB MATURE 17+
Australian Ratings: G to R 18+
Genres: Action, Adventure, Battle, Brain Game, Collecting, Communication, Creative, Dexterity, Fighting, Narrative, Physically Active, Platform, Point-and-Click, Push-Your-Luck, Puzzle, Race, Rhythm, Role-Play, Roll-And-Write, Sequencing, Shooting, Simulation, Sports, Stealth, Strategy, Traversal and World Building
Total Likes: 40,197

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Diatoms

Release Date: 08/01/2024

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Board, Cards, Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Diatoms is a tile-placement puzzle game where you create a microscopic mosaic from single-cell algae. Your goal is to create a pattern that scores the most at the end of the game based on colours, shapes, and symmetry. It stands out not only for the...

Animal Crossing: Wild World

Release Date: 23/11/2005, updated in 2016

Out Now: DS and Wii U

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Animal Crossing: Wild World is a quirky life simulation game where you live in a small village and build your dream home. You develop relationships with the animal townsfolk, collect fossils, fish and insects and build a home to help the village to...

Animal Crossing

Release Date: 14/12/2001, updated in 2004

Out Now: GameCube

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World, Pixels and Weather

Animal Crossing is a quirky life simulation game where you live in a small village and build your dream home. You develop relationships with the animal townsfolk, collect fossils, fish and insects and build a home to help the village to grow. It's a...

Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon

Release Date: 08/01/2021

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

Oceanhorn: Chronos Dungeon is an action-fighting game where you battle floors of enemies through ancient towers to save the world. You switch between four heroes, each with randomly assigned skills and abilities, and use the weapons you find to defeat...

Wee Tanks

Release Date: 16/05/2023

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

Wee Tanks is a shooting and traversal game inspired by Wii Tanks where you control toy tanks in battles against each other. You play by directing your tank and aiming where you are shooting separately. It stands out not only for recreating the fun tank...

Tanks, But No Tanks

Release Date: 25/09/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

Tanks, But No Tanks is a simple traversal and shooting tank battle game. You play against up to four other people or computer-controlled opponents, each trying to outwit the other while controlling movement and aiming separately. It stands out for the...

Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm

Release Date: 19/09/2019, updated in 2023

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS5, Switch, Xbox Series X|S, iOS and iPhone, iPad

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Oceanhorn 2: Knights of the Lost Realm (called simply Oceanhorn 2 on Apple Arcade) is an adventure game that recreates the 3D Zelda experience on non-Nintendo platforms....

Lonesome Village

Release Date: 01/11/2022

Out Now: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather

Lonesome Village is a simple dungeon adventure that also simulates life in a cosy mysterious village. You play by exploring, collecting and talking to the other villagers, before heading to solve the puzzles of the adventure. It's a combat-free...

A Tiny Sticker Tale

Release Date: 04/10/2023

Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

A Tiny Sticker Tale is an adventure where you change the cosy cartoon world with stickers. Play involves moving around and talking to the locals, then switching to sticker mode to use objects and complete quests. It stands out for the approachable play...

Broforce Forever

Release Date: 15/10/2015, updated in 2023

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Broforce Forever is a running, jumping and shooting game where you play characterised familiar masculine heroes who use excessive force to defeat enemies. It's a frantic, brash adventure with many weapons and characters to play around with. It's a...

Pit People

Release Date: 02/03/2018

Out Now: PC and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Grid

Pit People is a tactical strategy game where you herd a menagerie of medieval soldiers to take on all manner of strange foes. Play is about moving your characters tactically so they can maximise their attacks while staying out of range of counters.

Bloodborne

Release Date: 24/03/2015

Out Now: PS4

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Bloodborne is a fighting game where you defeat monsters in demanding combat. As you navigate the labyrinthine levels, you use weapons, which can transform between fast-paced and weak and slower but more powerful forms, to attack, dodge, and parry...

Alien Hominid HD

Release Date: 23/11/2004, updated in 2011

Out Now: GBA, PS2, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox, Xbox 360, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Alien Hominid is a running and shooting game where you play an alien, fighting secret agents. Play is a simple challenge of progressing to the right of each level, whilst dispatching the on-rushing enemy humans. It's simple classic arcade-style fun for...

Alien Hominid Invasion

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Alien Hominid Invasion is a cooperative running and shooting game where you play an alien, fighting secret agents and looting Planet Earth. Play is a simple task of running-and-gunning through the large arena levels, using your arsenal of unusual...

BattleBlock Theatre

Release Date: 15/05/2014

Out Now: Mac, PC and Xbox 360

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Blocks and Cartoon

BattleBlock Theater is a running, jumping and fighting game where you are a prisoner forced to play through deadly levels for an audience of cats! You move around the world, running, jumping and punching to collect the games and get to the exit. It's a...

L.A. Noire

Release Date: 08/09/2011, updated in 2017

Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World

L.A. Noire is a narrative adventure where you play a police detective in 1947 Los Angeles. You explore the open world and solve crimes to advance through the ranks. As you interview suspects you need to not only pay attention to what they say but their...

Otto's Tennis Game

Release Date: 17/05/2023

Out Now: Mac, Web and iOS

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Otto's Tennis Game is a sports game where up to two players play short tennis matches. You must time your player's jumps to hit the ball with their racket. The twist is that you control your character's movement with only one button.

Seabeard

Release Date: 12/05/2015, updated in 2022

Out Now: Android and iOS

Skill Rating: 5+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night and Weather

Seabeard is a simple adventure game where you follow in the footsteps of the great sea captain to explore and civilise. Play involves working on each island, tapping to move around, collecting items, talking to locals and developing your economy. It's...

MyHouse.Wad

Release Date: 03/03/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Pixels

MyHouse.Wad is a horror adventure created in the form of a new map for the classic Doom video game. It uses the Doom game engine but subverts it to create an unsettling and intriguing experience. Play is the usual running and shooting of Doom, but at...

Minecraft: Story Mode

Release Date: 13/10/2015, updated in 2017

Out Now: Amazon Fire, Android, Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Minecraft: Story Mode is a point-and-click narrative adventure set in the Minecraft universe where Jessie, an inexperienced adventurer, sets out on a grand quest with their friends. As you watch their story unfold, you make...

The Crew Motorfest

Release Date: 14/09/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Day and Night, Open World and Weather

The Crew Motorfest is an open-world racing and exploration game. It's a sequel that takes 2018's The Crew 2 to a Hawaiian island you traverse with cars, trucks, boats, and planes. It stands out for the many ways to explore the...

Dorfromantik Board Game

Release Date: 01/01/2022

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: Placeables, Score Board and Tokens

Dorf Romantik is a cooperative world-building game where you strategically place tiles to create countryside regions to score points in a variety of ways. Play is solitaire-like, but rather than matching suits you're matching landscape. It stands out...

Isle of Eras

Isle of Eras (Dreams)

Release Date: 02/10/2021, updated in 2023

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and 3D Third-Person

Isle of Eras is a horror adventure where you explore your childhood island in search of your missing brother. You explore the world to find clues and take on quests to find items. As you do things become supernatural and take you back and forth between...

How 2 Escape

Release Date: 31/08/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

How 2 Escape is a communication puzzle game where you have to reach the front of a dangerous train to pull the emergency brake. You search for hints and codes in each carriage while the clock counts down. The twist is that to succeed you must share...

Hades II

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

Hades II is a shooting action game that takes you beyond the Underworld of the first game to battle the dark sorcery of the Titan of Time. Play involves shooting and fighting your way through waves of enemies until you die (which you do often). It...

A Long Climb Ago

A Long Climb Ago (Dreams)

Release Date: 29/03/2023

Out Now: PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

A Long Climb Ago is a running and jumping game where you create the platforms you need with Tetris-style blocks. Play involves two modes; you place the blocks that fall from the sky to create a safe route, then you control your character to run and jump...

Paquerette Down the Bunburrows

Release Date: 02/08/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

Paquerette Down the Bunburrows is a puzzle game where a little girl tries to herd rabbits in order to catch them. Play is a simple case of moving around the maze to corner the bunnies. They only move when you do but each has their own intelligence you...

My Little Universe

Release Date: 05/08/2021, updated in 2023

Out Now: Android, PC, Switch and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks, Cartoon and Grid

My Little Universe is a world-building adventure game where you are stranded on a barren moon with a set of tools. You collect resources and build habitation to incrementally improve life on your lonely planet. It's a simplified exploration and strategy...

Blasphemous II

Release Date: 24/08/2023

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Blasphemous II is a running, jumping and fighting game set in the same horrific world as the first game. The follow-up focuses on quality over quirkiness which makes the exploration and combat smoother but a little more derivative. There's more...

Blasphemous

Release Date: 10/09/2019, updated in 2020

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Blasphemous is a running, jumping and fighting game set in a horrific world of corrupted catholicism and unnerving contorted characters. You explore, upgrade your abilities, and execute the hordes of enemies that stand between you and your quest to...

Luigi's Mansion 2

Release Date: 20/03/2013, updated in 2024

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Luigi's Mansion 2, or Luigi's Mansion Dark Moon in the US, is an adventure game about investigating five haunted houses in a community overrun by ghosts. As Luigi, you use your flashlight and ghost trap in the mansions, capturing ghosts and collecting...

Luigi's Mansion 3

Release Date: 31/10/2019

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Luigi's Mansion 3 is an adventure game where you explore the intricate rooms of a haunted hotel to find and capture ghosts. As in the first two games, you move through the rooms, finding secrets and treasures, and vacuuming up ghosts. It has the same...

Dead Pets Unleashed

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Dead Pets Unleashed is a narrative rhythm game about a struggling punk band wrestling with life and the challenges of getting older. You play the songs in rhythm-action elements, while also getting to know the locals and managing the progress of your...

Holstin

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, 3D First-Person and Pixels

Holstin is a survival horror adventure set in an isolated 90’s Polish town infected with an ominous presence. Play involves exploring the town, talking to locals and fighting the zombies. It stands out for the detail of its world and the ability to...

Brotato

Release Date: 23/06/2023, updated in 2023

Out Now: Android, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Brotato is a shooting game where you play a potato crashlanded on an alien planet. Play involves picking the right auto-firing weapons to disperse the onslaught of enemies. It takes the Vampire Survivor survival challenge in a fun silly direction, while...

Turnip Mountain

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Turnip Mountain is a traversal game about climbing up a mountain as a turnip with arms. You control each of the turnip's limbs with separate sticks, using momentum to complete big jumps between the mountain's edges. It's a simplistic, pixelated...

Portal 2

Release Date: 18/04/2011, updated in 2022

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS3, Switch and Xbox 360

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Portal 2 is an action adventure where you traverse through increasingly complex (and dangerous) test chamber obstacle courses. By creating two connected portals (if you walk into one, you walk out the other) you must move yourself around the rooms to...

Block Buster Billy

Release Date: 28/08/2023

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Grid and Pixels

Block Buster Billy is a puzzle game about positioning blocks that join together when they make valid maths formulas. Play involves pushing the blocks to not only satisfy the rules of maths but also form shapes that are useful to progress the level's...

Dark Souls III

Release Date: 12/04/2016

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Dark Souls III is a fighting game with an emphasis on precise timing and extreme difficulty. You explore labyrinthine ruins and ancient kingdoms and defeat monsters with your weapons and magic. The final entry in the Dark Souls trilogy features the same...

Dark Souls II

Release Date: 11/03/2014

Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Dark Souls II is a fighting game with an emphasis on precise timing and extreme difficulty. You navigate through labyrinthine ruins and ancient kingdoms, defeating monsters with your weapons and magic. It pairs immense difficulty with a grand story and...

Rytma

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: Open World

Rytma is an adventure game where you explore a Mediterranean landscape to find and play ancient instruments with different qualities. You investigate on foot to discover the instruments that you then move around to solve musical puzzles and learn their...

Adore

Release Date: 18/02/2020, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Adore is an action-adventure game where you play Lukha, who can summon and control creatures to fight by his side to offer simple yet satisfying combat. Each round you set out from the hub world, clearing out a region with the creatures you've chosen to...

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Thank Goodness You're Here! is a slapstick adventure set in Northern England in the style of classic Beano comics. Play involves exploring the cartoon world to take on quests and special challenges. It stands out for the visual style, but also a...

Darkest Dungeon

Release Date: 19/01/2016, updated in 2018

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS Vita, Switch, Xbox One and iOS

Skill Rating: 13+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Darkest Dungeon is a turn-based battling game where you fight monsters in dungeons to restore your ancestor's hamlet to its former glory. From a side-on perspective, you recruit an adventurer team to take on quests in the dank, dim dungeons that make...

Dark Souls

Release Date: 22/09/2011, updated in 2018

Out Now: PC, PS3 and Xbox 360

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Dark Souls is a fighting game with an emphasis on precise timing and extreme difficulty. You navigate through labyrinthine ruins and ancient kingdoms, defeating monsters with your weapons and magic. A spiritual successor to [link to game/Demons+Souls...

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre

Release Date: 18/08/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

The Texas Chain Saw Massacre is an online stealth action based on the film of the same name. In detailed arenas based on locations from the film, you play either the notorious Slaughter family hunting down victims, or an innocent trying to escape.

Red Dead Redemption

Release Date: 18/05/2010, updated in 2023

Out Now: PS3, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox 360

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Red Dead Redemption is an adventure game set in a vast wild west open world. As you play, you meet characters, engage in shootouts and heists, and define your character's legacy in the twilight of the cowboy era. It stands out for the freedom it gives...

Hauntii

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

Hauntii is an adventure where you explore a dimly-lit afterlife world and meet the people living there. As you move around you shoot to defend yourself but can also possess other inhabitants and the world itself. It stands out for combining puzzles and...

Marble It Up Ultra

Release Date: 16/11/2018, updated in 2023

Out Now: Apple TV, Mac, PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and iOS

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Marble It Up Ultra is a rolling and jumping game where you race a marble through levels to get to the finish. You play by controlling the direction of your marble rolls, being careful not to fall off platforms and traversing each level as efficiently as...

Minabo - A Walk Through Life

Release Date: 02/06/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Minabo - A Walk Through Life is an adventure game about the path of life. As you move along the road your turnip character is born, grows and thrives (or not) in all manner of family and social relationships.

Ultros

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Ultros is a trippy running, jumping and exploring game set inside a giant ancient Sarcophagus that holds demonic beings and fertile land. You adventure into the Sarcophagus by battling enemies and triggering plant life to bloom.

Just Act Natural

Release Date: 25/03/2022

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Just Act Natural is an online stealth game where you hide among computer characters in a hand-made world, to avoid detection. Play varies with each mode, but throughout you're trying to blend in with the AI characters so other players don't target you....

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

Release Date: 23/03/2018, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is a role-play game and sequel to Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch, where you play a young king rebuilding his kingdom and uniting his people. You travel the world,...

Citizen Sleeper 2

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon, Dice, Grid and Text

Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector continues the role-play adventure with a new story about an escaped corporate-owned android with a price on its head. Each cycle you roll dice and decide how to spend them, on repairing your ship, on trading or on...

Everybody 1-2-Switch

Release Date: 30/06/2023

Out Now: Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Filmed

Everybody 1-2-Switch is a party game played with the Joy-Con motion controllers to compete in a series of fun and silly challenges. From making friends with aliens to filling giant balloons with just the right amount of air, or working in a manic ice...

Quake II

Release Date: 09/12/1997, updated in 2023

Out Now: Amiga, PC, PS1, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox 360, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and Pixels

Quake II is one of the first fast-paced shooting games, where you rush through dungeons collecting guns and killing enemies. Play involves finding your way through mission levels while dealing with enemies. Years after its release it is still being...

Trackline Express

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon, Day and Night, Grid and Hand-Made

Trackline Express is a strategy game where you build and resource a train on an adventure through an unforgiving desert. Play involves running around to gather scarce materials to create the resource you need - coal, ore and wood for starters. It...

Jagged Alliance 3

Release Date: 14/07/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Weather

Jagged Alliance 3 is a strategy battle game where you lead a squad of mercenaries tasked with finding the President and bringing order back to the country. Play involves recruiting a team of heroes to take on tactical turn-based combat. It stands out...

The Legend of Zelda

Release Date: 21/02/1986

Out Now: GBA and NES

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Pixels

The Legend of Zelda is an adventure game where you venture through a mysterious land and fight enemies. As you explore, you use your sword and shield to defeat monsters you find secrets and puzzle-filled dungeons. As the first game in [link...

Bayonetta 2

Release Date: 20/09/2014, updated in 2018

Out Now: Switch and Wii U

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Bayonetta 2 is a fighting game where you use fantastical guns and attacks to defeat hordes of enemies in over-the-top and dramatic combat. You attack enemies with extreme weapons and magical powers and, in a new addition for this second entry, can...

Bayonetta

Release Date: 29/10/2009, updated in 2018

Out Now: PC, PS3, PS4, Switch, Wii U, Xbox 360 and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Bayonetta is a fighting game where you use fantastical guns and outlandish attacks to defeat hordes of enemies in bombastic combat. As you play, you attack enemies with oversized weapons and supernatural powers. It stands out for how outrageous outfits,...

Ratatan

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS5, Switch and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Ratatan is a rhythm game from the team behind Patapon, where you tap buttons in time with the beat to control your little army in a real-time battle. In this way, you use instruments to issue commands to your troops as they defeat powerful enemies and...

KarmaZoo

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

KarmaZoo is a cooperative running and jumping game where you work with layers to complete platform levels. Each player controls one of 50 different creatures and objects to use their different abilities (drop ladders, make surfaces grippy) to help the...

One Night Stand

Release Date: 07/11/2016

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made

One Night Stand is a narrative game where, after a drunken night of passion, you wake up the next morning next to a stranger lying naked in your bed. Play focuses on making emotive choices about how to respond and what to do, in an effort to explore the...

Videoverse

Release Date: 07/08/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Videoverse is a narrative game about a fictional gaming network and the friendships that were forged there. You play by guiding conversations and visiting the gaming bulletin board each day. It stands out for bottling the play and interactions that make...

Criminals Within

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Criminals Within is a cooperative adventure with a How To Train Your Dragon vibe. You play with a friend, each from a different perspective, to explore (and tame) a fantasy land of knights and dragons. It stands out for the fairytale visuals and the...

Omori

Release Date: 25/12/2020, updated in 2022

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 16+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Pixels

Omori is a role-play narrative game about a troubled teenage boy and his dream world alter-ego Omori. You play as a group of friends explore both the real and surreal world to help both Sunny and Omori deal with (or suppress) fears and secrets. It...

Bleep Bloop

Release Date: 31/01/2019, updated in 2019

Out Now: PC, PS4 and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

Bleep Bloop is a puzzle game where you manoeuvre two coloured blobs through increasingly complex stages. Each moves in a straight line until it hits a wall, and can interact with switches and obstacles that alter the layout of the level. It's a familiar...

Super Mario Galaxy 2

Release Date: 23/05/2010

Out Now: Wii and Wii U

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Super Mario Galaxy 2 is a running, jumping and exploring sequel to the critically acclaimed Super Mario Galaxy. It takes Mario to hundreds of different planet-shaped levels with their own gravitational fields and wacky...

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened

Release Date: 27/06/2023

Out Now: Android, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cards, Hand-Made and Weather

Harry Potter: Magic Awakened is an online role-play game where you play a new student at Hogwarts. As you explore you battle other players, using cards to activate spells while dodging attacks from your opponent. Unlike many large online adventures,...

Dave the Diver

Release Date: 28/06/2023

Out Now: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Day and Night and Pixels

Dave the Diver is a simulation game where you manage a sushi bar by night and hunt for the fish to sell by day. You explore the depths of a lagoon, using your harpoon to catch fish and solve puzzles to unlock new areas. Then in the evening, prepare...

Slime Rancher 2

Release Date: 22/09/2022

Out Now: PC and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Day and Night and Open World

Slime Rancher 2 is a farming simulation game where rather than chickens, sheep or cows, you farm slimes. You explore the oceanic world to find slimes to use on your farm to generate income and steadily upgrade your land. It stands out for whimsical...

Ori and the Blind Forest

Release Date: 11/03/2015, updated in 2019

Out Now: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Ori and the Blind Forest is a running and jumping game that places you in control of a diminutive guardian spirit. You traverse and solve platforming challenges to progress through the world while fighting off monsters. It's familiar territory but...

My Friendly Neighborhood

Release Date: 18/07/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

My Friendly Neighborhood is an adventure horror game where you investigate the strange set of a kid's TV show. Play involves traversing each of the different areas, solving puzzles and shooting the puppets that attack you. Unlike Rainbow Friends, this...

Knack 2

Release Date: 05/09/2017

Out Now: PS4

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Knack 2 is an action-adventure where you control a shape-shifting robot called Knack. Following the original game, you battle your way through Pixar-style enemies and solve simple puzzles using your size-shifting abilities. It's familiar territory but...

Roto Force

Release Date: 18/07/2023

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Roto Force is a shooting game where you battle enemies as a slug who is permanently attached to the inside wall of each box-like level. As you frantically dash through the stages the whole room twists and turns accordingly, meaning not only do you...

Darkwood

Release Date: 17/08/2017, updated in 2022

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Day and Night, Open World and Pixels

Darkwood is a survival horror role-play where you must scavenge the forest to fortify your cabin ready for the strange and disturbing attacks of each night. You play by exploring the grotesque open world that changes each day then get back to hunker...

Meet Your Maker

Release Date: 04/04/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Meet Your Maker is a traversal game where you try and get through bases filled with traps and hazards, the twist is that each of these has been made by other players. You run, jump, and grapple through these player-made labyrinths, defeating enemies and...

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon

Release Date: 24/08/2023

Out Now: PC, PS Vita, PS4, PS5, PSP, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Armored Core VI: Fires of Rubicon is a fighting game where you create your own robot suits and then take them into battle. It's from the makers of Elden Ring but has more of a combat focus and without an open world. Fights are fast-paced and exuberant,...

Moving Out 2

Release Date: 15/08/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Moving Out 2 is an action-puzzle game where you play a removal company and move furniture and belongings in and out of houses. Although this starts simply you soon find objects that are awkward shapes or need two people to lift. It stands out for the...

Aliens: Dark Descent

Release Date: 19/06/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Aliens: Dark Descent is a strategy game where you command a squad of soldiers as they face creatures from the Alien films. However, rather than using brute force, you must sneak around and avoid detection, both to keep the aliens unaware of your...

Sushi For Robots

Release Date: 03/08/2023

Out Now: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cartoon

Sushi For Robots is a brain game about serving sushi-obsessed robots with the right-shaped food. You place sushi on the conveyor belt so it gets to the right-shaped robots. You can also put down stickers to change the behaviour of your dishes and please...

Everdeep Aurora

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Dice and Pixels

Everdeep Aurora is a retro-looking running, jumping and digging game where you search underground for your mother. As you dig down, you encounter a world full of people to talk to and puzzles to solve. It stands out for the way you create your own path...

Cramped Room of Death

Release Date: 12/07/2023, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

Cramped Room of Death is a puzzle game where you traverse maze-like chambers with a cumbersome, oversized spear. You advance by defeating all the enemies in a given room, but to do this you must carefully choose your path so that your spear doesn't...

Baldur's Gate 3

Release Date: 21/12/1998, updated in 2023

Out Now: Mac, PC and PS5

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Dice and Open World

Baldur's Gate 3 is a role-playing game that recreates the Dungeons & Dragons experience in a digital world. You explore the world and fight enemies by rolling dice and weighing up your stats to see what happens. But...

Lies of P

Release Date: 19/09/2023

Out Now: PC, PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 14+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person

Lies of P is a fighting game where you try to survive in a dark twist on the Pinnochio story. You explore a gothic steam-powered world, fighting off enemies with well-timed moves and choosing whether to tell the truth or lie in ways that alter the...

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora

Release Date: 07/12/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person, 3D Third-Person, Day and Night, Open World and Weather

Avatar: Frontiers of Pandora is an adventure in James Cameron's Avatar universe where you play a child caught between two worlds fighting to protect your planet from human colonists. Play involves exploring the large open world, interacting with...

Mr Sun's Hatbox

Release Date: 20/04/2023

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Mr Sun's Hatbox is a slapstick running, jumping and shooting game about retrieving a stolen hatbox at any cost. Play is Spelunky-style platforming and shooting, but with characters who have problematic traits that must be offset with hat abilities. It...

Last Train Home

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Last Train Home is a strategy game where you command of a legion of soldiers as they travel home by train after the Great War. You guide them in battle, issuing commands and developing strategies, then upgrade and fortify the train you use to travel...

Lueur and the Dim Settlers

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Grid and Pixels

Lueur and the Dim Settlers is a simple-looking strategy game where you create a thriving town and reclaim the land from darkness. You expand your settlement by selecting different tiles to meet the resources and people you need. The simple tile-choosing...

Headbangers Rhythm Royale

Release Date: 31/10/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Headbangers Rhythm Royale is an online multiplayer rhythm-action game where you play a pigeon and compete in wacky musical minigames. You press buttons in time with the beat to copy dance moves and sing along to classic tunes to score higher than the...

Simpler Times

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

Simpler Times is a narrative game about a young woman reminiscing about her childhood as she moves away from home. While you listen to four soulful songs for each period of life, you explore the room and witness her changing interests and desires...

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown

Release Date: 18/01/2024

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown is a running, jumping and fighting game where you explore the ancient Middle East and defeat mythical enemies. From a side-on view, you traverse the world to uncover secrets and gain abilities to help defeat giant...

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog

Release Date: 31/03/2023

Out Now: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

The Murder of Sonic the Hedgehog is a narrative game where you investigate who killed Sonic at a murder mystery party. You talk to guests, uncover clues and find evidence of the murderer's identity, then make your case to everyone else. It's a...

Jotun

Release Date: 29/09/2015, updated in 2018

Out Now: Mac, PC, PS4, Switch, Wii U and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Hand-Made

Jotun is a fighting game where you prove yourself to the Norse gods by defeating mythical beasts. You forge your way to each beast's lair, then take them on, armed with only your axe and the magical abilities you're granted. These larger-than-life...

Lorelei And The Laser Eyes

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Lorelei And The Laser Eyes is a narrative brain game where you are stuck in a mysterious maze unsure of whether to trust your senses or the people you meet. Play involves using the clues you find to solve puzzles and traverse the maze to safety. It...

The Talos Principle 2

Release Date: 02/11/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person

The Talos Principle 2 is a puzzle game where you explore and unravel the mystery of a futuristic robot society. You move between zones and solve puzzles by guiding beams of light, manipulating gravity, and switching between robot bodies. It stands out...

Kid Icarus Uprising

Release Date: 22/03/2012

Out Now: 3DS and 2DS

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Kid Icarus Uprising is a shooting-adventure game set in a world loosely drawn from Greek mythology. You play as angelic warrior, Pit, on a mission to save humanity via airborne shooting and ground-based third-person exploration. It stands out for the...

Green New Deal Simulator

Release Date: 07/04/2023, updated in 2023

Out Now: Android, Mac, PC and iOS

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Cards

Green New Deal Simulator is a strategy game where you must shift the US economy to net zero carbon. You place Effect cards on the map to choose how each area grows its green energy while also minimising unemployment. There are other educational games...

Annalynn

Release Date: 29/01/2023, updated in 2023

Out Now: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Annalynn is a running, jumping, and collecting game that recreates a classic arcade challenge with more expansive levels. You work to collect every coin on the stage while avoiding enemies. While it appears easy, getting a perfect score requires...

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