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Single player games fun to play around tv / switch controls : Firewatch - about 6 to 10 hours narrative walking exploring adventure with beautiful scenery. Tee

Single player games fun to play around tv / switch controls : Firewatch - about 6 to 10 hours narrative walking exploring adventure with beautiful scenery. Teens and up probably. Outer wilds : astonishing space exploration game. So many mysteries and puzzles and wonders and connections to be made. Cannot recommend highly enough. Tale of two brothers. There's sadness in this game but handled very well. If you're ready to discuss life and death with your kids. Beautiful graphics and fun puzzles. Machinerium / Botanicula / Samorost, of course. Beautiful and lovely and happiness inducing. Tons of point and click adventures. Coop It takes two - might be super fun for your kids to play as parents! Beautiful graphics and fun gameplay. Lovers in dangerous space time - technically there's guns but nothing with people or anything recognizable. Overcooked - if no guns is really a strict mandate :)

beebmam 4y ago
Tacoma is similar in gameplay style to Firewatch, both amazing games.
lloeki 4y ago
That list above is what I was mainly thinking of. Here's a few more with great storytelling, done in various ways (sometimes non obvious but they all have a story to tell that kept me hooked) I don't recall any physical violence in the following games, although psychological violence can be very personal and some may run you in a mood or facing events that can be unsettling at times. Some of these have neither. Gone Home The Swapper Fez Day Of The Tentacle VVVVVV You Have To Win The Game Braid Shelter 1 & 2 Her Story Portal 1 & 2 Thomas Was Alone One Night Stand The Stanley Parable Antichamber Carto RiME Oxenfree Never Alone Life Is Strange Soma and the Amnesia series could be of interest as well. I seem to recall it's all about fear, but not violence. Mirror's Edge has punching but you don't kill anyone and you can avoid most encounters, with parkour style. Definitely not COD. Limbo and Inside have gore but clearly not the COD one. While enemies have guns and the setting may subscribe to "war-like", I seem to recall you can also complete Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut without lethal action (in the original non DC bosses have to be killed) which is rewarded with an achievement at the end of the game. Heavy Rain is also a great game with original mechanics. Don't attempt to play with PS Move, use a controller. Some of these are good for kids, some aren't, depends on kid age and how you want to raise them!
- riezebos 4y ago
  Although they are less violent than COD, I think your memory might be a bit off on some of these. 2 examples: In Portal 1 & 2 there are quite a lot of robots that trying to kill you with guns.[0] In Mirror's Edge there is a lot of parkour but there's also killing people with various guns.[1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBDulvHYr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBDulvHYr8 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcaMnQD7G8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcaMnQD7G8
  - lloeki 4y ago
    > In Portal 1 & 2 there are quite a lot of robots that trying to kill you with guns Correct. I should have put it aside, although the player only throws portals around to solve puzzles using his brain. And we can definitely describe GLaDOS as being a violent being. > In Mirror's Edge there is a lot of parkour but there's also killing people with various guns Wow I completely forgot about that in Mirror's Edge. I think I completed the game without ever using a gun and then forgot they ever existed in the game.
cblum 4y ago
Overcooked 2 has been a huge relationship builder for my wife and me. If you put your heart in it, you learn to communicate effectively under pressure (especially when trying to conquer those 4th stars), tolerate/move-on from each other's mistakes, and control your temper around each other. We've been recommending the game to every couple we know.
SnooSux 4y ago
Is "Tale of Two Brothers" supposed to be "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons?"
- NikolaNovak 4y ago
  Hah; yes; that'll teach me to do stuff from memory on phone :D Thx!
kyriakos 4y ago
It takes two is an amazing game. Even for non gamers.

beebmam 4y ago

Tacoma is similar in gameplay style to Firewatch, both amazing games.

lloeki 4y ago

That list above is what I was mainly thinking of. Here's a few more with great storytelling, done in various ways (sometimes non obvious but they all have a story to tell that kept me hooked) I don't recall any physical violence in the following games, although psychological violence can be very personal and some may run you in a mood or facing events that can be unsettling at times. Some of these have neither. Gone Home The Swapper Fez Day Of The Tentacle VVVVVV You Have To Win The Game Braid Shelter 1 & 2 Her Story Portal 1 & 2 Thomas Was Alone One Night Stand The Stanley Parable Antichamber Carto RiME Oxenfree Never Alone Life Is Strange Soma and the Amnesia series could be of interest as well. I seem to recall it's all about fear, but not violence. Mirror's Edge has punching but you don't kill anyone and you can avoid most encounters, with parkour style. Definitely not COD. Limbo and Inside have gore but clearly not the COD one. While enemies have guns and the setting may subscribe to "war-like", I seem to recall you can also complete Deus Ex Human Revolution Director's Cut without lethal action (in the original non DC bosses have to be killed) which is rewarded with an achievement at the end of the game. Heavy Rain is also a great game with original mechanics. Don't attempt to play with PS Move, use a controller. Some of these are good for kids, some aren't, depends on kid age and how you want to raise them!

riezebos 4y ago
Although they are less violent than COD, I think your memory might be a bit off on some of these. 2 examples: In Portal 1 & 2 there are quite a lot of robots that trying to kill you with guns.[0] In Mirror's Edge there is a lot of parkour but there's also killing people with various guns.[1] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBDulvHYr8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9NBDulvHYr8 [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcaMnQD7G8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbcaMnQD7G8
- lloeki 4y ago
  > In Portal 1 & 2 there are quite a lot of robots that trying to kill you with guns Correct. I should have put it aside, although the player only throws portals around to solve puzzles using his brain. And we can definitely describe GLaDOS as being a violent being. > In Mirror's Edge there is a lot of parkour but there's also killing people with various guns Wow I completely forgot about that in Mirror's Edge. I think I completed the game without ever using a gun and then forgot they ever existed in the game.

cblum 4y ago

Overcooked 2 has been a huge relationship builder for my wife and me. If you put your heart in it, you learn to communicate effectively under pressure (especially when trying to conquer those 4th stars), tolerate/move-on from each other's mistakes, and control your temper around each other. We've been recommending the game to every couple we know.

SnooSux 4y ago

Is "Tale of Two Brothers" supposed to be "Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons?"

NikolaNovak 4y ago
Hah; yes; that'll teach me to do stuff from memory on phone :D Thx!

kyriakos 4y ago

It takes two is an amazing game. Even for non gamers.