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.

[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.

[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.