
Older Rated: Games like Overboard or Spelunky 2 are rated higher in some territories because of gambling content. They are worth revisiting for the polished experience.

These head into identity territory at the player’s pace, without being heavy-handed.įalse Start: Games like Vane or No Man’s Sky had a troubled initial release, but were either enhanced or fixed soon after. They are designed to let the player become one with the game, while also ensuring they are approachable for the newcomer.Įmotions: Games like Alba: A Wildlife Adventure and Rainbow Billy offer new ways to share the emotional landscape of characters. Mechanics: Games like Lonely Mountains Downhill and Boomerang X are experiences driven by learning intuitive controls. Weird: Games like Chuchel and Nuts offer a peculiar and intriguing way to discover an unusual world and story.Ĭollaboration: Games like Minecraft Dungeons, Ibb and Obb, Wilmot’s Warehouse and It Takes Two offer different ways to work together to progress by playing and talking together. This list highlights games you may have not discovered or considered as good for your family: Buried Treasure exists to highlight great, interesting, bizarre or downright silly games that you’d otherwise likely miss. Kotaku (a made-up word combining "ko" meaning small and "otaku" meaning geek) has covered specialist video news since 2005. We’ve worked with video game website Kotaku and one of its writers, John Walker, who runs the Buried Treasure site, to unearth some games you may have overlooked for your family. However, these are just the tip of the iceberg of games perfectly poised for you to enjoy with your family.

We all know about Minecraft, Roblox, Mario, Fortnite and FIFA. Family gaming has been a “thing” since I started writing about games around the time of the Wii.
