Play is hugely important in children's lives, this much is common knowledge. Less well known is that it is enshrined in the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child as a fundamental right of children.
Of course, these days play is often found as much in digital technology as it is in the physical world. To gain a better understanding of how companies making these forms of play can ensure the well-being of children the Responsible Innovation in Technology for Children (RITEC) project from UNICEF Innocenti and Western Sydney University offers a helpful framework.
This list highlights games that strongly deliver particular aspects of the framework, both as a great place for children to play and an example for other developers wanting to include these benefits in their games.
This list includes 53 games from the last 16 years, with 3,021 likes. They come from a range of different genres and play-styles and are all good games if you want to find digital play to support well-being. We break them down into the following areas: