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I banned my kid from Roblox.... what next? (lemmy.ml)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml to c/gaming@lemmy.ml

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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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[–] jdf038@mander.xyz 8 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Games my kids and I enjoy on Steam:

(Not Xbox sorry)

Alba (such a cute story)
FPS Chess
Dinkum
Webbd
Tinykin
Spiritfarer
Wobbly Life
LEGO adaptations of series
Among Us (canned chat only)

[–] Saff@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

I dunno if you want him playing a true mmo at that age, but old school RuneScape is currently as popular as ever. Specifically old school though, RS3 has the same sort of problems with micro transactions etc.

[–] Grebgreb@hexbear.net 8 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Minecraft

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[–] b0gl@sh.itjust.works 7 points 11 months ago

Just let them play minecraft instead. Minecraft dungeons could be good but it's only 4 people at the same time tho.

[–] _ffiresticks_@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Deep rock galactic

[–] Perhapsjustsniffit@lemmy.world 7 points 11 months ago

Games my kids enjoy without paying one cent...

All the games they play

We spend zero dollars on video games and yet our kids seem to play a lot of them, my wife and I don't really play. They even had a friend give them an Xbox and there are computers and tablets and phones in our house. Games don't have to be a money pit.

[–] Tb0n3@sh.itjust.works 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Roblox is full of different kinds of games, right? Why don't you find out the kinds of games he likes there and find recommendations based on that? It's a start at least. I would imagine most of the Roblox games are clones of better games anyway.

[–] WetBeardHairs@lemmy.ml 8 points 11 months ago

He and his entire friends group on roblox got banned from it in a single day. We're trying to not be jerks by providing a better game to replace it with. But from what I saw - he was playing some game where he stands there and pokes at a robot that gets bigger while things around it die. Not very stimulating.

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