I was thinking of getting a point click adventure for my 8yo son to play. Too many pages for me to bother looking through all the results. Found the point&click tag. I cant find any sort of age rating filter. Kid, child, general, g rated; dont appear to be a tag. Am I missing something? It would be crazy if I could search release date, genre & language yet no age appropriate filter.

Pajama Sam would be perfect.

The closest GOG has to an age appropriate filter is the family friendly tag

Awesome thanks. Appreciate it. Ill check them both out.

https://www.gog.com/en/games?tags=point-and-click,family-friendly&excludeReleaseStatuses=upcoming,early-access

This limits the games shown to "Family friendly" and "Point and click", while hiding all "Early Access" and "Upcoming" titles.
Now it's only two pages of games you have to look through (71 games).

Edit: do yourself a favour and sort the list by "alphabetically"...else DLCs etc of the same game(s) will be all over the place.

My Brother Rabbit
The Night of the Rabbit
Candle
Torin's Passage
Day of the Tentacle Remastered
Machinarium
Boxville
Botanicula
Papetura

I didn't include games like Myst, Syberia, or The Dig. While safe for an 8-year old, they probably wouldn't be appealing for someone that age.

I wouldn't recommend these games for an 8-year-old. They contain some violence, deal with some pretty dark stuff and/or the humor is clearly directed at adults.

I agree with this.

Depending on the kid's age, Lilly looking through is a good choice. Just be ready to help them get unstuck.

I also recommend The Little Acre, tho know your kid will experience sadness for empathizing with the protagonist halfway through the game when she discovers

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It's been a while since I played it, but I believe The Secret of Monkey Island would be kid-friendly. Really great game too! And IIRC the remastered version has a hint system, which is handy.

Edit: In fact, I'll reinstall it right now. I want to play it again.

Most of them are too complex for a 8 year old. But some definitly hit the spot. Start with Pajama Sam.

Chuchel and Katie in Meow Meow Land are also games where you need to discover something on screen to progress. But while look as if they are designed for kids, they can be quite frustrating too and are not as easy as they look.

Nah, I'd say they are definitely aimed at all ages just like The Simpsons or Futurama. It's perfectly fine if children can not understand every joke or the social commentary embedded within as long as they can still have fun with it. They will appreciate their childhood classics even more once they grow older and begin to understand what they missed.

And I wouldn't consider these games violent. Unless of course you are over-sensitive to violence and want to ban even cartoon violence. But I do not consider cartoon violence to be comparable to actual violence. Otherwise we would have to start banning or censoring children classics like Tom and Jerry.

I'll add Growbot to the list of recommendations, lovely game and not too difficult.

Lost in Play looks pretty good.

Let's see what the USK/PEGI recommendations say:

- Sam & Max: USK 12 (PEGI: 12 "violence")
- Toonstruck: USK 6 (PEGI: --)
- Edna & Harvey: USK 0, respectively USK 12 (Collector's Edition) (PEGI: 12 "bad language/ fear, horror")

So, "Toonstruck" and "Edna & Harvey" (in the standard edition (whatever the difference may be)) should be fine for an 8 y.o.