What are kids playing today? What came after Minecraft/Roblox?
I feel like I haven't heard anything from younger genz about games outside of 'streamer screamer' game of the week.
Is there anything really new and unique?
You know, I would love for games to offer child only servers with the purpose of protecting children from pedophiles.
But also, for my selfish need to not have children ruining my games in first person shooters. 🤣
As a 30 y/o myself, it feels like they’re still playing those games from 4 years ago: Minecraft, Fortnite, Roblox, Brawlstars. But they watch much, MUCH more AI Slob
Attention span is so, so short now. Caught my kid playing Fortnite, then alt-tab to YouTube Shorts when they got killed. For like 10 seconds of downtime to respawn. Atrocious!
As a parent I can confirm this is true. Lots of AI slop. But probably even more weird, random, quick-fire meme shorts. Although those two categories are rapidly bleeding together into one massive clusterfuck.
My oldest frequently says "gen alpha is so cooked!" due to all the meme and AI slop. Which considering he is gen alpha is both insightful and disturbing.
minecraft, roblox
I’ve noticed a strong shift to brawl stars with one of my kids and their friend group.
It's still Roblox
Fortnite.
The current streamer fad game seems to be REPO; which looks like it's just a knock off of Lethal Company, tho IMO it is a bit cuter with the way player character's heads flap with your mic when you speak.
It's all about the DOSbox, baby! Skibidi rizz, yeet yolo!
How do you do fellow human child
My son plays Fortnite in addition to the other two. I don't know of any other games that offer the wide choice and peer interaction that Minecraft, Fortnite and Roblox offer.
He mainly watches streamers who play those games
I hate this centralization of "all games in one", it's eerily similar to the centralization of the internet into the big social media sites.
My daughter was showing me some of the games-within-games on Minecraft servers. It's insane what people have made. And now Fortnite has racing!?
They're getting bugs and keeping em in matchboxes, making them get on sticks and fight each other like Pokémon. It's brutal out there man, kids these days are tougher than us
Lichess
It's still Minecraft and Terraria.
Pokemon?
I tried getting a 10yo kid playing the emulated version of Fire Red on his tablet. He thought it was too slow and just went back to Roblox
Tangential point: these games always felt like Legos but without the complexity involved with rotating and making things fit IRL, so I'd rather get my kids Legos. I guess these games are free for anyone who knows how to use a PC/their children, so it's way more accessible, but Insha'Allah I'll be financially blessed enough to buy the real deal.
You don't know what minecraft and roblox are, do you ?
Beep.
And white supremacists.
Don't forget the child labor
https://youtu.be/_gXlauRB1EQ
And the followup
https://youtu.be/vTMF6xEiAaY
And it itself is a creepy company town for bilking children.
Groomers not so much, maybe depends on the games they play. But my kid did get scammed, that was a learning moment.
Maybe not a bad thing though. Rather learn to be cautious with "worthless" digital items and be less likely to get scammed later on
You could argue the same for any game engine (Unity) or game with a big modding community (Garry's Mod). The big difference here is that Roblox aimed straight at children right from the start and also offers a no friction hosting of those creations