10. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga (PS5)
The force is strong with this one. While there have been several instalments in the past, LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga is the culmination of TT Games' previous efforts. Encompassing all nine mainline movies, this is a huge platformer adventure featuring all the most iconic sequences you remember from the big screen. When you're not progressing the story, it turns into a sandbox, letting you explore myriad locations from the films and play as one of hundreds of characters. Its gameplay is also more modern than the older LEGO Star Wars titles, sharpening up shooting and making combat more exciting. There's so much to see and do here that Star Wars fans need not play anything else for a while.
9. Fall Guys (PS5)
What if there was a platformer in which up to 60 players compete in chaotic obstacle courses simultaneously? Turns out this madcap idea is genius, because Fall Guys is a cracking online multiplayer madhouse. Playing as a jellybean-shaped clutz, you're up against numerous others through a series of randomly chosen stages, featuring all kinds of platforming challenges. By process of elimination, the winner will be the last one standing, and success earns you lots of excellent costumes and bragging rights. Whether you play solo or team up with friends, this is a hilarious title for all ages, and the best bit? It's free-to-play.
8. Overcooked: All You Can Eat (PS5)
Overcooked: All You Can Eat serves up everything from Overcooked and Overcooked 2 in one delicious meal. All that content has been refreshed and remastered, with online play now spread across both games, and even more DLC added on top. The brilliance of this series is how it forces you to truly work together — if you don't, chaos can quickly take hold, and you'll never get those three-star ratings on each level. It's also extremely accessible, with easy-to-grasp controls and objectives. Looking better than ever on PS5, it's the ultimate way to enjoy one of the best co-op party games in recent memory.
7. Crash Bandicoot 4: It's About Time (PS5)
Crash Bandicoot is one of PlayStation’s most iconic platforming heroes, and now that he’s double-jumped onto PS5, there’s no excuse for skipping Crash Bandicoot: It’s About Time. This sequel stays true to the series’ origins, but it’s bursting with brand new ideas and jaw-dropping set-piece moments. Running at a flawless 60 frames-per-second in sparkling 4K resolution — and cutting those load times to almost nothing — this release is at its absolute best on Sony’s next-gen console.
6. Toem (PS5)
Toem takes the idea of a game about photography and twists it into something unique. Framed as a cutesy, top-down adventure game, you play as a young explorer on a pilgrimage to the mountaintop, snapping photos along the way. You can whip out your camera at any point, and the game swaps to first-person, giving you a new perspective on the black-and-white world. Helping out a colourful cast of characters, discovering all sorts of cool secrets, and solving imaginative puzzles mean this short but sweet indie game stands out.
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Astro's playroom is a big winner for me. The kids love it!
Great topic and list!
My son loves Astro’s Playroom. He’s gotten over 40 hours of it this year and it’s the first game he’d ever beaten on his own. He was five years old at the time of completion. He still plays it all the time. He plays Sackboy a lot too.
I do think Minecraft should be on this list. If Crash is on here, Psychonauts 2 definitely should be. Wattam and Katamari are good for the kids too. And Dreams has some wonderful stuff for kids, as long as you can find the right stuff. Stray isn’t a bad one either for kids.
It’s really interesting watching kids play. They play to experience worlds so genuinely. There’s no thought about beating things or getting decent scores, but just getting immersed and story sensing. I sometimes wish I was better at that, myself.
Get ready for a detailed explanation from a respected member of this community why at least half of the games listed here are not suitable for children at all, lol.
Sack Boy is an absolute blast. Its such a fun couch co op, and three player games of it are some of the best times I've had in the last few years.
Initial levels are pretty cookie cutter, but later levels introduce some great mechanics and really good level design. A great family game - or even a fun time for a group of 50yo+ adults like you'll find in my front room!
Clearly whoever put up this list has no kids and haven't tried giving them to play some of these games. Some of these are either way too hard, or quite dark for children.
Bit out there but Tren within dreams is abit of a winner in our house. I wish this was released outside of dreams.
Sonic superstars doesn't make the top 15 🤔
Having young children Half those games under 10yr old can't play.
For example crash 4 is way to difficult
@Matter “ has no kids ”
Strong possibility.😂 Plus kids is a broad category, we’re all somebody’s kid, and my kids game a lot different at 18 & 21 than they did at 3 & 6. A lot less Pokemon now.🤪
Roblox not being on the list makes it kind of… outdated? 🤷🏻♂️ Same for Disney Speedstorm which I play too much but my kids won’t play with me.😢
@Dr-zoidburg You’re talking about Crash 4 being too hard, but saying Sonic Superstars should be on here? Crash 4’s levels are harder, but those bosses in Sonic Superstars ruin the game with their seemingly random difficulty spike. Sonic Mania, on the other hand, I’d say is great fun for kids. Sonic Frontiers too. With regards to this list, my son is 6 and has tried all of these games without much difficulty, outside Among Us and Fortnite. He didn’t like them all, but could play them all to the extent where he either liked them or didn’t, based on preference. Kids can learn games pretty quickly, I’d say.
@Afroducc Tren is absolutely a gem for kids (and adults too). Totally agree. I’d have bought this one as a standalone, even after playing in Dreams. It’s definitely making it to my year-end list and my son loves it. We actually ended up playing it collaboratively where he’d play easier levels while I was at work and then show me what he did and then I’d play the hard ones. Really fun! If it was stand alone, I’d argue it being my favorite Media Molecule game of all time perhaps.
@somnambulance I totally agree with you... It's my favourite thing out of Media Molecule aswell.
I actually think this is what that studio should become, releasing super creative smaller titles to compliment the big releases from the other Sony studios. Tren is such high quality fun. I've shown a few friends who are bigger on the PC side and they've all loved it. It's criminal it's not more accessible, I'm positive it would kill on steam.
@somnambulance hi, I was wondering why the user score was so low on sonic superstars! Think it's on 3 or something.
Just shocked me a bit.
Totally agree with what your saying, myself and my daughter had a blast playing streets of rage 4 together, were as some kids would find it too tough.
I guess we all have different gaming abilities no matter what age we are.
I'd still say crash 4 is too tough lol, well it was for me 😂
The later levels of Crash 4 were ‘extreme difficultly’ or something. I almost gave up, it was so frustrating. The early levels are fun though.
Astro’s Playroom is one of my favourite games ever and we’ll deserving of top spot.
I think Fortnite should be higher though.
These games are all regular video games that have a whimsical art design that makes them look unoffensive and suitable for many ages. Some of the games deal with themes that are more for grown-ups and some have very advanced gameplay techniques. I think we need to decide who "children" are when it comes to lists like this.
Granted you can let a young child loose in most of these games without needing to worry about much blood, sex, violence, or scary stuff, but I would hardly call any of them "children's" games
Bluey: The Video Game, Paw Patrol World, Bratz, Inspector Gadget. These are children's games.
Now if we are talking pre-teens and teens up to 15 these games on the list a fantastic if you don't want your kids engaging in video game violence.
@Dr-zoidburg Yeah, Sonic Superstars might be my personal biggest disappointment of 2023. It’s weird though because I love the level design. The co-op is truly awful though and the bosses are bizarrely difficult in comparison to the breezy difficulty of the stages. It’s like whiplash, even in the early levels. I’ve been playing Sonic games for ages and it’s another example of a confused Sonic game. It was so close to great, but so far away. Crash 4 is a bit easier than Sonic Superstars, but only because of the bosses! Lol
@Afroducc 100% agree with everything you said. I feel like the game is so under the radar because it’s in Dreams. If it would’ve gotten a bit more proper press and a standalone, I think it could have been a bonafide hit. Revealing it was made in Dreams rather than saying it’s the final salvo for the app could’ve honestly gotten more people excited about Dreams as a whole too. Honestly feels like Media Molecule didn’t quite know what to do with Dreams to make it hit right. It deserved better.
This list has me Dreaming of a full on 15hr ps5 "astrobot" game.
The installed demo on ps5 is the closest thing to a 3d mario game regarding thoughtful level design that just plain fun that puts a smile on your face
@somnambulance oh really! The kids want to get me sonic superstars for Christmas so got to hold out.
They should have split the screen on co-op, would have changed the gameplay completely
@Dr-zoidburg Totally agree. Sonic Team tends to make bizarre choices that make you wonder if they even tried the game before they launched it. And, if they did try it, did they really like that!? Lol
I played kids games only so I know which kids games to play so ask me if you need some recommendations for kids games on PS5.
all those are adult games, kids nowadays won't play anything not called Fornite, League of Legends or Call of Duty
Meh, okay list but "kids" is a very broad subject. Only like 3 or 4 of these games are what I would consider 'real' kids & family-friendly titles, the rest are too 'dark' and/or too difficult.
I love bugsnax it's not really a kidsgame storywise get the real ending it's so worth it.
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