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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. (self.gaming)

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

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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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[–] doboprobodyne@thebrainbin.org 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Fdroid --> unciv

Civilisation clone. Really fantastic if she enjoys that sort of thing.

https://f-droid.org/categories/games/

Also I don't know anything about adblockers but I was lucky enough to have a device supported by www.divestos.org and I think the OS defaults to a DNS that ignores ads somehow. But I'm not sure! I just know I get WAY less spammy ads than friends do :P

#divestOS #Fdroid

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

Thanks for civ tip!

I've got pi hole as DNS ad blocker. Works great.

[–] doboprobodyne@thebrainbin.org 1 points 1 year ago

Sweet!

If you like tech and if she might too, there are coding games for the desktop https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/best-programming-games/
And for the mobile device https://blockly.games/

Have fun!