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Best Games Rated PEGI 12 and Younger

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Mineko's Night Market

Release Date: 26/09/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon, Hand-Made and Weather

Mineko's Night Market is a narrative-driven adventure where you help a village at the base of Mount Fugu thrive. You explore the Japanese-inspired world, collecting items and completing tasks to make items to sell at the market. It stands out for its...

Chants of Sennaar

Release Date: 08/09/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Chants of Sennaar is a traversal and translation puzzle where you play a traveller called to reunite the Peoples of the Tower who are unable to communicate with each other. Play involves exploring the cell-shaded world to decipher the glyph-based...

Sea of Stars

Release Date: 29/08/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Components: 2D Overhead, Open World and Pixels

Sea of Stars is a role play game about two Children of the Solstice. It combines turn-based combat, storytelling, exploration and interactions with the environment all in a pixel art style. Unusual for a role play game, Sea of Stars also offers platform...

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk

Release Date: 18/08/2023

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

Bomb Rush Cyberfunk is a city adventure and parkour jumping game. Drawing on Jet Set Radio, you play self-styled crews equipped with personal booster packs and graffiti aspirations. Your aim is to get your tags and art all over each neighbourhood.

Disney Illusion Island

Release Date: 27/07/2023

Coming Soon: Switch

Skill Rating: 4+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Disney Illusion Island is a running and jumping game where you play Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Donald in an original adventure. As you explore, you use their unique abilities to traverse water, land and air. It's Cuphead meets Rayman but with the charm,...

Pikmin 4

Release Date: 21/07/2023

Coming Soon: Switch

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Day and Night

Pikmin 4 is the latest in a series of puzzle games where you direct hordes of titular plant-like creatures to navigate garden locations. Different colour Pikmins have different abilities so the challenge is to get enough of the right ones to destroy...

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals

Release Date: 12/07/2023

Coming Soon: Mac, PC, PS4, PS5 and Switch

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Oxenfree II: Lost Signals is an unsettling narrative adventure and sequel to Oxenfree. Like that game, you guide your character through choices that affect the direction of the well-written and complex story and tune your radio...

Crime O'Clock

Release Date: 30/06/2023

Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Crime O'Clock is a point-and-click crime-solving game where you explore a detailed map to piece together timelines that prove whodunnit. You zoom in and study the detailed map to find time markers and work out the culprit of hacking, murder and theft.

Crash Team Rumble

Release Date: 20/06/2023

Coming Soon: PS4, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Crash Team Rumble is a fighting game where teams compete to get the most fruit. You run and jump through stages, shooting and attacking enemy players to stop them from getting fruit back to their base while trying to collect and secure fruit yourself....

Fall of Porcupine

Release Date: 15/06/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Fall of Porcupine is a narrative adventure about a young doctor bird working in an unhealthy healthcare-system. It stands out not only for the hard-hitting theme but the quality of writing and depth of characters you meet along the way.

Dordogne

Release Date: 13/06/2023

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Hand-Made

Dordogne is a narrative adventure where you play as Mimi, a 32-year-old woman who returns to the house of her recently deceased grandmother. You explore the house and area to find letters and puzzles that bring back memories of the past.

30 Birds

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead, Blocks and Hand-Made

30 Birds takes you to a psychedelic hand-painted city on the hunt for birds. You explore, talk and outwit the strange characters you meet in your mission to save Simurgh, the giant bird goddess. It's a game that is inspired by Persian art, alternative...

A Highland Song

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

A Highland Song is a narrative adventure where you explore a maze of crisscrossing routes through the hills of the Highlands. You are 15-year-old Moira who lives with her mum on the edge of the hills and receives a letter inviting her to come to the...

A Rat's Quest

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 3D Third-Person, Cartoon and Open World

A Rat's Quest is a running, jumping, hiding adventure where you play a young male rat called Mat who lives in a burrow in an abandoned wine cellar. It's part platform game part Pixar story as you help Mat escape with his partner Nat. But out in the big...

Acid Knife

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Acid Knife is a running, jumping and fighting game where you carefully time attacks to defeat monsters in a dark, psychedelic world. All of your abilities, such as attacking and dodging, are tied to the items you hold which can be knocked from your hand...

Advent Neon

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Advent Neon is a fast reaction-based running, jumping and bashing game. You dash your away through retro-style levels working towards transforming into your full power state. It's like a fighting game, complete with directional attacks, mixed with a...

Airhead

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Airhead is an exploration adventure in a sprawling interconnected world. The twist is that you play as a small Body who must keep the Head (it finds) inflated. Sometimes together, sometimes apart, you must use a growing array of abilities to find a way...

Akimbot

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Akimbot is an action-adventure where you are a mechanical robot in a chaotic, futuristic universe. Play involves traversing the dense levels using your wall-running and jet-boost skills. You can take on enemies from a distance or get in close for combat...

Akurra

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac, PC and Switch

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Akurra is a block pushing puzzle and exploration game. Its look is inspired by classic games like Zelda, Star Tropics, and Chip’s Challenge. It looks simple, but offers a rich and complex puzzles backed by visuals and sounds that take you back to the...

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I.

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 12+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

Albert Wilde: Quantum P.I. is a mystery adventure where you play a detective cat in a fictional 1930's New York. It combines point-and click adventuring with e first person perspective. Solve murders, flirt badly, maybe discover a wormhole to another...

American Arcadia

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, Switch and Xbox One

Components: 2D Side-On and 3D First-Person

American Arcadia is a running and jumping game where you solve puzzles to escape your televised life in an opulent but overly controlled futuristic city.

The game is set in a 70’s retro-future city of high luxury. But the citizens don't...

Anima Flux

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Skill Rating: 11+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On

Anima Flux is a running, jumping adventure game where you fight off hordes of mutant monsters in a desperate attempt to save humanity's final stronghold. You explore the vast stages, to find new weapons to help progress through the hectic combat. While...

Animal Well

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4 and PS5

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Animal Well is a platform puzzle game where you explore a dense, interconnected labyrinth. Play involves collecting items that let you manipulate the world in unexpected ways. It's a layered experience that works as a platform game but also hides...

Another Crab's Treasure

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person and Cartoon

Another Crab's Treasure is a fighting game where you play a crab on a quest to reclaim their shell. As you explore verdant kelp forests, sandy shallows and deep trenches, you fight big crustacean enemies, unlock new abilities, and find new bits of...

AntonBlast

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

AntonBlast is a frantic running-and-jumping game where you play a disgruntled construction worker who has a feud with Satan. It's reminiscent of the classic Wario Land games, as you smash through buildings, enemies, and obstacles with your hammer. It...

Aurascope

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 9+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Hand-Made

Aurascope is a retro running and jumping game that combines elements from other genres. The platform action is central but you also have a lot of collecting and exploration to do. As much as the gameplay, the game stands out for its fast skill-based...

Begone Beast

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead

Begone Beast is an action-traversal game where you fight monsters and explore a vast, dark cave. With fast-paced combat and different ways to defeat the hordes of monsters, it stands out with four person co-operative team work. It's an adventure the...

Big Hops

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 3D Third-Person, Blocks and Open World

Big Hops is running, jumping and swinging game where you play a parkour frog. You use your long tongue and unusual ways to adjust the world to get around. Your mission is to get back home after being frog-mapped. Along the way you meet a charming cast...

Bigger Than Me

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: Mac and PC

Components: 2D Side-On and Cartoon

Bigger Than Me is a point-and-click adventure about Max, a young man full of uncertainties with a peculiar problem: he becomes giant every time he hears the word "future". You play by moving around the world and interacting with the people and objects...

Bilkins' Folly

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Grid

Bilkins' Folly is an adventure game about a boy and his dog exploring tropical islands in a search for treasure and his missing family. Like classic point-and-click adventures you make strong bonds with quirky characters, here though it's logic puzzles...

Bionic Bay

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Bionic Bay is a running and jumping game with a difference. Set in a burning future you rush through the world with parkour skills and a unique swap ability. This makes play more physics-based than other platform games as you can move objects around the...

Bobby Bombastic

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS4, PS5, Switch and Xbox One

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Bobby Bombastic is a running, jumping (hovering) and shooting game where you explore volcanic caves on a do-it-yourself rescue mission to find some stranded explorers. You enter the jungle with nothing but your homemade helicopter-backpack, a laser...

Botany Manor

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC and Switch

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and Cartoon

Botany Manor is a peaceful puzzle game where you explore a 19th-century English home and gardens and care for the plants you find. By reading the newspapers, postcards and posters in the house, you discover how to look after each species, from pot size...

Calorie Defenders

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 10+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On and Pixels

Calorie Defenders is a strategy game where you place vegetable traps and shoot sugary food inside the human body. One minute you're defending the body from the sugar while running and jumping across chasms, the next you are strategically placing traps...

Cats Love Boxes

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 7+ year-olds

Components: 2D Overhead and Grid

Cats Love Boxes is a box pushing challenge where two cats need to arrange items to solve puzzles. Alone or with another player, you control Fofiño and Lily to push the boxes around and solve each puzzle.

Cocoon

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, Switch, Xbox One and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 2D Overhead

Cocoon is a puzzle adventure where you play a winged creature transporting orbs through a mysterious world. The twist is that placing orbs in a portal grants access to the worlds within worlds and creates a complex nested puzzle.

Cryptmaster

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Components: 3D First-Person

Cryptmaster is a creepy adventure brain game where you use words to control everything. You play by filling in the blanks by typing or speaking to uncover lost abilities, solve quests, and battle enemies. The novelty, along with the unusual combination...

Despelote

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 6+ year-olds

Components: 3D First-Person and Hand-Made

Despolete is a sports adventure where you play a child in school in Ecuador. All you want to do is play football. But you have to wait for the day to be over before you can play. The game is set in 2001, and Ecuador is within reach of qualifying for the...

Dig Dig Boom

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC

Skill Rating: 8+ year-olds

Components: 2D Side-On, Cartoon and Hand-Made

Dig Dig Boom is a puzzle game about traversing a mine with explosives to recover buried treasure. The turn-based play means you can take your time with each move, placement of dynamite and gem collecting. It stands out for the kinetic strategy where...

DokeV

Release Date: Coming soon

Coming Soon: PC, PS5 and Xbox Series X|S

Components: 3D Third-Person and Open World

DokeV is an open-world adventure game where you explore a bright K-pop backed world. It's a chaotic mix of Pokémon creature collection, Breath of the Wild exploration and Monster Hunter battles. These elements coalesce around the creature collection...

Taming Gaming Book Written by parents for parents, the database complements the in-depth discussion about video game addiction, violence, spending and online safety in the Taming Gaming book. We are an editorially independent, free resource without adverts that is supported by partnerships.

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