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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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[–] LENINSGHOSTFACEKILLA@hexbear.net 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The Finals is fun and free. Apex Legends is cool too. A lot of shooting but no gore at all.

The finals is also only voice chat and its opt in from the get go, so really good for avoiding toxic behavior from randos

I don't think there's a problem with restricting internet access for your kids, especially if you can get other parents (of your kids friends) to do it too

[–] asg101@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago (4 children)

RunEscape has a pretty expansive free to play game. Cartoonish gore.

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[–] AOCapitulator@hexbear.net 4 points 1 year ago

Golf with friends

[–] popcap200@lemmy.ml 4 points 1 year ago (9 children)

I'm still confused as to why you guys don't just ban the spending of money on micro transactions and not the game itself? Every game is jam PACKED with mtx these days, from CoD to Fortnite to Forza.

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[–] JamesBean@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

At that age, maybe Among Us or Minecraft?

[–] magnetosphere@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

For a second I confused Among Us with The Last of Us. I thought that was a pretty messed up suggestion for a little kid lol

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[–] FigMcLargeHuge@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely have to get him Valheim, and they have an Xbox version now. Also, not multiplayer, but Kerbal Space Program is pretty fun. I have only played the PC version though, so can't speak to the console version.

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[–] cuchilloc@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

Spiderheck, should be cheap!

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