Gaming

30561 readers

203 users here now

From video gaming to card games and stuff in between, if it's gaming you can probably discuss it here!

Please Note: Gaming memes are permitted to be posted on Meme Mondays, but will otherwise be removed in an effort to allow other discussions to take place.

See also Gaming's sister community Tabletop Gaming.

This community's icon was made by Aaron Schneider, under the CC-BY-NC-SA 4.0 license.

founded 2 years ago

MODERATORS

alyaza@beehaw.org

TheRtRevKaiser@beehaw.org

gyrfalcon@beehaw.org

Whom@beehaw.org

The_Hunted_One@beehaw.org

chloyster@beehaw.org

remington@beehaw.org

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

submitted 1 year ago by sylverstream to c/gaming@beehaw.org

79 comments fedilink hide all child comments

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.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] morganth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is probably not a terribly helpful answer, but on the iOS side, there is Apple Arcade, which is a huge library of “free” (aka included with the subscription) games that don’t have any ads or microtransactions. If there’s an Android equivalent, just give her that as her app store. You’d spend a set amount per month and keep her away from the predatory business models.

[–] sylverstream 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess Play Pass for Android is similar. Thanks.

[–] ranandtoldthat@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Play pass is surprisingly not terrible.

[–] sylverstream 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah just subscribed, so far pretty good. It's annoying you can't see easily what non games are included (like Tasker)

[–] korewa@reddthat.com 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exactly where I landed after giving them a fire tablet.

[–] sylverstream 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Fire tablet is Android, right? Or am I mistaken.

[–] korewa@reddthat.com 1 points 1 year ago

Yes I have that Amazon subscription think for kids apps it’s mostly junk games

[–] SmoochyPit@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

It is, but by default it’s locked to Amazon’s App Store. With this tool, a computer and a few minutes, you can sideload Google play and Google services. It also has lots of other customization options, like installing different launchers. I’d imagine that “Google Play Pass” would work then.