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How to let my kids find quality games on Android? Right now they only find the pay to win / ad riddled games. (lemmy.nz)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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My 9yo daughter has a tablet with family link, so I can monitor what apps she wants to install. As the garbage games are mostly at the top free, she keeps asking for games that I reject, in most cases because it's riddled with ads.

The Play Store has a section for kids, which seems to have better quality apps and games. Also thinking to subscribe to Play Pass so she can try out paid games.

Any other tips? Especially how to find good free / paid games. I don't mind paying for good games.

Also I'm aware I can block ads using eg Pi Hole (already doing that) or sometimes putting it on airplane mode, but that's not my point. I want to find and support quality games.

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[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Install an emulator for her alongside with some roms. Unfortunately, that's pretty much the only option we have nowadays.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Interesting, hadn't thought about that. Will read more about it!

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Lemuroid is a great open source emulator. Vimm's Lair is a great place to find games/ROMs. It's difficult to play games though that require the bumper buttons on a touch screen. Maybe consider getting her a retro gaming handheld device. They can either run based on Linux, so an emulator, or Android which can operate like normal and then you can select an emulator to play. ETA Prime has lots of reviews of these devices.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Awesome, thanks! I've tried retro gaming before but they didn't really like it, we also had a Wii for a couple of weeks, but perhaps I should try again.