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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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[–] asg101@hexbear.net 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

RunEscape has a pretty expansive free to play game. Cartoonish gore.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago (2 children)

God runescape is still a thing? I played that in middleschool....

[–] chaogomu@kbin.social 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

I remember playing it a bit back in 2001.

And yes, it's still around.

There are even two versions that Jagex maintains, the main branch, and Old School Runescape, which is based around how the game was back in 2007-2009. (but with new stuff still added all the time)

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

Whoa that is a rabbithole I really should not let him know about. Talk about a time sink - people have been playing that for decades now.

[–] PlasterAnalyst@kbin.social 1 points 11 months ago

I think it's more popular in poorer countries because you don't need a high end PC to play it.