cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/40448411

Hi, I have a primary school girl who wants her share of gaming on the family android tablet.

While finding open source or commercial games with no ads that boys like is doable, I haven’t been able to find the kind of games a girl wants:

  • with cute graphics
  • where you care for dolls or pet
  • no ads or subscriptions, no endless DLC.

Do you have any recommendations for android games that fit the bill?

The image is a screenshot of cry babies, a game that she’d like to play very much but constantly nags you to buy new content.

  • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
    713·
    3 months ago

    Has she specifically requested games with dolls and pets? If not, just get her good games - doesn’t matter who’s playing them, games are games.

  • Snapz@lemmy.world
    6214·
    3 months ago

    You know what is a great android game for girls… Any good android game. And that’s because girls are people. They have a diverse set of interests and are not one single thing.

    • muzzle@lemm.eeOP
      45·
      3 months ago

      As I said before: I absolutely agree. I just typed the description she gave me of the game she wants.

      • Snapz@lemmy.world
        513·
        3 months ago

        No worries. Just phrase as “What are some android games that are good for kids, age X - X, with a traditionally feminine or “girly” aesthetic?”

        That asks your same question, without implying (intentionally or not) that all girls are a “princess that likes pink”

          • communism@lemmy.ml
            35·
            3 months ago

            Every primary school girl likes pink and princesses and is too dumb to enjoy fighting games of course

            • nooneescapesthelaw@mander.xyz
              74·
              3 months ago

              Nobody is saying that.

              The person I’m replying to says that the way she phrases things has subtext that she should avoid, I’m saying that she is in primary school so fuck it

    • tetris11@lemmy.ml
      136·
      3 months ago

      well done you! instead of meeting the OP half-way by trying to understand their requirements, you chose to shame them on the easiest of technicalities. Rest well tonight, good warrior, you’ve earned your propers.

  • Lost_My_Mind@lemmy.world
    37·
    3 months ago

    Have you tried minecraft? My 12 year old niece loves minecraft.

    Also, pokemon. My niece loved it when she was younger.

    • qaz@lemmy.worldEnglish
      3·
      3 months ago

      I’ve played this a lot with my friends in high school. I can definitely recommend it.

  • stoneparchment@possumpat.io
    5·
    3 months ago

    Oooooh I have some ideas! Some of these are paid/premium (but NOT micro transactions) and some have mild ads. But I share the distaste for data-mining, money grubbing, brain-melting-ad-ridden games, so I’m certain they are on the least intrusive end of the spectrum.

    I really love biology (I’m a biologist…) so these are both pet games and usually breeding/evolution games!

    • Fish Tycoon – This one specifically. A classic! Breed and care for cute fish!
    • Niche breed and evolve – so neat and pretty educational about evolution/genetics. There’s a slightly more complicated/difficult pc game if she decides she likes the nichelings/universe.
    • Pocket Frogs – Simple, low stress collecting game. it would take years to collect all the frogs, and there’s a relatively active community of people who trade sets of frogs to other people to help them complete collections. Would be fun to play with her friends at school!
    • Reigns Her Majesty – a game about running a kingdom as a queen. When you die, you become your heir and retain some progress from your last lives. It doesn’t fit the exact criteria you mentioned, but I think she might like it anyway!
    • muzzle@lemm.eeOP
      3·
      3 months ago

      She didn’t like the other RPGs she tried, but maybe in a few years…