Game Builder Garage on the Nintendo Switch is great. It's a really flexible sandbox that can be used to make decent-looking little minigames (both 2D and 3D).

Game Builder Garage on the Nintendo Switch is great. It's a really flexible sandbox that can be used to make decent-looking little minigames (both 2D and 3D). Really nice tutorials and puzzles. It's a great introduction to modern game programming concepts like entity-component systems and 3D geometry. Downsides: - It's purely visual programming with no useful abstraction or reuse mechanisms, so you rapidly hit the limits when trying to build complex logic (although there's a community of players who enjoy working around the limitations in creative ways). - The tutorials are really verbose, with lots of banter among the different characters (very much like a console RPG), so children who aren't strong readers will find it difficult to follow.