If you're okay with some very black comedy (all spoken-aloud, nothing shown) and the occasional blood splatter when you get shot, the Portal games are good. The villains are robotic turrets with machine-guns that are defeated simply by tipping them over - so while they're acting in very violent and lethal ways, the player is just teleporting around and nudging them over to fall down onto their side. But I remember my kid being very offended when GlaDOS called the player character fat, and later reveals she mass-murdered a building full of scientists using nerve-gas.

[–] puppybox@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

She's 5....

[–] Pxtl@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Well, some 5-year-olds have watched a half-dozen Marvel movies that have very similar content. That's why I'm giving details onto what's age-inappropriate about the Portal games so the parent can make an informed decision.

edit: And if just the constant black comedy from GlaDOS is okay, but the blood-splatters when you get shot are concerning, there are ways to disable it (although they're console-commands and not part of the menu). In Portal 2 the blood was removed altogether because the game didn't really need it anyways.