# Seeking Video Games for a 3 Year Old **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Tags:** video-games-e-games\ **Created:** [August 23, 2023, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011 "2023-08-23T23:26:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [August 25, 2023, 4:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/21 "2023-08-25T16:14:50Z")
If you have a Switch, get the Paw Patrol on a Roll game. It’s a very basic platformer that eases them into the genre, and has some replay ability with collectibles and completion percentages. We found Yoshi to be a little too complicated for the younger ones. ---
**Author:** ![Hurrilon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9adbd/32.png) [@Hurrilon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hurrilon)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/22 "2023-09-23T23:03:55Z")
My $0.02 worth - no electronic games for kids unless they are educational in nature. Teach the kid to read and supply him with books out the gazoo. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/23 "2023-09-23T23:25:14Z")
Oh, he has plenty of books. He reads pretty well for a three year old (not exactly hyperlexic, but he reads many words.) Right now he’s reading about the Sun, Earth and Moon. One of his interests is space. He has a a space calendar with pictures of famous nebulas and he demands I read the photo captions - in song. I perform it like an opera. There are some people who give their kids way too much screen time, but we are not those parents. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2023, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/24 "2023-09-23T23:39:46Z")
lookup YouTube vids of it when everything is maxxedout out … you cant see anything from the 1000s of things getting destroyed and the numbers everywhere although it happens before that point it gets extra special once you do ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/25 "2023-09-24T00:06:29Z")
I’m not sure why people classify Vampire Survivors as “bullet hell”. While there often are projectiles that you need to dodge, it’s nowhere near on the level of anything that I’d call “bullet hell”. Most of the time you end up dying (before you can reliably clear the entire level) because there’s just a huge mass of guys that spawn and they converge on you before you can kill them, so there’s little you could do in terms of dodging that would help at all. At best, you try to find a gap where you can scoot through and get hit as little as possible, but it’s not a game where there are certain patterns that you need to learn to dodge, which is what I think of as “bullet hell”. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/26 "2023-09-24T00:09:34Z")
thats what poncle the dev team describes it as …although yeah once you have all the weapons and gear max level all you have to do is stand there ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/27 "2023-09-24T00:17:26Z")
heres a quick vid to explain how crazy it gets https ://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTKjw5UMuv0 note I had to put space between the s and colon because we cant post youtube link captions anymore ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/28 "2023-09-24T00:18:39Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > thats what poncle the dev team describes it as I could describe myself as an astronaut, but that doesn’t make me one. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/29 "2023-09-24T00:21:47Z")
So my husband has been playing Vampire Survivors and loves it. We are going to see if the boy can play. It’s not the kind of game for me. “What’s the goal?” “To survive.” “Yeah, but like, how does it end?” “When you die.” “But like… what’s the point?” “To not die.” … I’ll just watch them do it. ---
**Author:** ![glowacks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/glowacks/32/5548_2.png) [@glowacks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/glowacks)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/30 "2023-09-24T00:23:14Z")
> [@Spice\_Weasel](#): > > “But like… what’s the point?” What’s the point of playing Super Mario Brothers? To get to the end of the game. (or just to have fun trying) ---
**Author:** ![needscoffee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/needscoffee/32/1076_2.png) [@needscoffee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/needscoffee)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 12:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/31 "2023-09-24T00:47:06Z")
I downloaded a computer game for my nephews over 20 years ago which they loved called Puzzle Express. It looks like it’s still available on Softonic. It has a train car that would pull up to the station, and you have blocks of different sizes to drop in where they fit. When it’s full, the next car pulls up. Repeat. There’s a jigsaw puzzle component where a picture will form when you fill it. It was sort of like Tetris for young train buffs. My nephews were fascinated by it. It was very good for spatial skills. If it’s too old for your computer, BigT has good ideas for how to make old games run on newer computers. ---
**Author:** ![Spice\_Weasel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spice_weasel/32/5435_2.png) [@Spice\_Weasel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spice_Weasel)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2023, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011/32 "2023-09-24T01:36:06Z")
That sounds great! I’ll look for it! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seeking-video-games-for-a-3-year-old/989011.md?page=1)