Puzzle adventure games for kids

[boyse7en]

Me and 10yo daughter have been playing a very long game of Myst Exile over the winter months, and finally completed it yesterday.

She and I have enjoyed working out the puzzles and the exploring and discovering elements, and would like something similar.

Any recommendations? Can be old as it will have to run on my ancient PC.

[The_Jackal]

On Nintendo the standard answer would be a Zelda game.

[Wayoftheflower]

Not strictly Puzzle/Adventure but my kids and I having having a great time with Stardew Valley with same PC multiplayer enabled through (free)Universal Split Screen. Resource management with a little adventuring quests thrown in.

[boyse7en]

The_Jackal said:

On Nintendo the standard answer would be a Zelda game.

I'm not tremendously au fait with the Zelda games, but aren't they more an action game? Not really wanting anything that involves real-time battles or fights, as they introduce an element of luck and skill that we just don't have.

[timmymagic73]

This sounds like the perfect opportunity to play your way through all the old Lucasarts games? The SCUMM emulator easily will work on old PC hardware.

I did this recently and it was excellent fun. Great to re-visit (and finally complete) Indiana Jones and the Fate of Atlantis without 11 Amiga discs worth of swapping... :-)

The Professor Layton series on the Nintendo DS is also good fun.

[Steve Campbell]

Although on Playstation, my son and I enjoyed playing Portal 2 together.

It's a true puzzler and doesn't have much of the open environment discovery ....but the need to collaborate to solve the puzzles together in 2 player mode was excellent ......and it has a weird sense of humour in the story line .......worked for us anyway and worth a look for a bit of puzzling fun.

The single player element to the game is also good if you enjoy puzzlers.

[Zad]

Have you tried the Broken Sword graphical adventures? The first, second and final (fifth) are generally accepted as being the ones to play. The co-protagonist is a young woman and the equal of the male character, so good for your daughter to identify with. They are often available cheap from the usual download places. Steam, GoG etc.

System specs aren't exactly taxing for the first game: "OS: XP/Vista/7/8 • Processor: Pentium • Memory: 64 Mb • Hard Disk Space: 1.5 GB • Video Card: Any video card with 64 Mb video RAM • Sound: Any sound card "

[DIW35]

The Secret of Monkey Island. Is that old enough?

[Stevil]

Have a look for The Witness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_vi...

I really enjoyed it, though spent hours scratching my head on some of the puzzles. Definitely more along the lines of Myst than the others mentioned so far in the thread.

[designforlife]

Day of the tentacle also worth a shout

[boyse7en]

Stevil said:

Have a look for The Witness https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Witness_(2016_vi...

I really enjoyed it, though spent hours scratching my head on some of the puzzles. Definitely more along the lines of Myst than the others mentioned so far in the thread.

That sounds like a good one, not heard of it before so I'll check it out.

Some of the more traditional adventure games I already know - I remember playing Full Throttle, Grim Fandango and similar back in the days before internet walkthroughs were available. The thing I have against some of them is the illogical aspects that seem to permeate them.

[bunchofkeys]

May i suggest

https://classicreload.com/castle-of-dr-brain.html

Proper classic from when i was kid.