Craft the World, And yes!, I have mentioned and recommended this game on quite a number of occasions. It's just a family friendly, chill, relaxing game. But can get a little hectic around every hour or so...

(I can't post for some reason. :P) Agreed about Pajama Sam (mainly the first three adventures - No Need to Hide, Thunder and Lightening, and You Are What You Eat). ;)

Unfortunately the rest of the Humongous games are only on Steam, but Spy Fox, Freddi Fish, and Putt-Putt series are great. Some old skool Living Books titles have recently been re-released on Zoom-Platform.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Books#Titles_in_the_series

The post didn't like the word "s c h o o l"? :P scho ol

Zniw Adventure:
https://www.gog.com/en/game/zniw_adventure

IMHO one of the best games in category "suitable for younger, also very fun game to play".

-Flower
-Pikuniku
-Sponge Bob
-Kao Kangaroo
-Tsioque
-Train Valley
-Mini Metro
-racing games
-building towns games

This family-friendly tag allows killing manlike creatures so it's up to you... Yet the best way (also hard and long) is to play the game before introducing it to kids

If it doesn't have to be point & click (which I think at this age is too early except for a very few games, the riddles in most games are just too compley for that age), the selection is a lot bigger. Most 3D platformers would be ok as well, but I guess you want to go for something with more story than the average platformer offers. Tsioque from the previous post is a very hot candidate.

It depends most amanita games are pretty clean.

Not point and click but Rayman Origins is good.

Really depends on what you consider to be kid-friendly. Do you only want educational games? How much violence is too much? What about suggestive language?

Depending on where you draw the line, most of Apogee's games should be okay.

Hello lestat87!

Further broadening a little bit the constraint of Point&Click-Adventure games, I would suggest some of the HiddenObject games available on GOG.COM, such as:

- A Building Full of Cats
- A Castle Full of Cats
- Hidden Through Time (Plus DLC Expansions with additional regions/time periods)
- Hidden Folks
- Looking for Aliens
- The Tiny Bang Story

Moreover, I would suggest games from other genres, for instance:

- A Short Hike
- Alba: A Wildlife Adventure
- Haven Park

Kind regards,
foxgog

[Edit:]
I forgot to mention two additional suggestions:
- Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise (a first person perspective point&click adventure)
- Down in Bermuda (environmental puzzles more akin to HiddenObject games)

An 8yo should be able to handle Stardew Valley rather well. My goddaughter did. It's not point-and-click. I don't know how strong that requirement was vs age.

I could ALMOST recommend Neighbours Back From Hell, bu some of its bits are a bit highly suggestive.

OK, I can also recommend Growing Up (it's a visual novel and not point-and-click, but pretty close), with the caveat that you should probably be around for it. It has some sour elements in high school age... but an 8yo should understand, "sometimes your friends make bad decisions. you don't have to join them.sometimes people you used to be friends with turn into bad people" kind of conversation.

It also might be good for the self-reflection and to get a head start on "work/life balance" that is one of the game's mechanics, along with goal-setting, and a preview of what future school life could be like ("Do I take maths or arts?" or "I want the astronaut ending this time, what do I focus on?")

These aren't point and click games but are pretty kid-friendly freeware (they might need tweaking to run however):

https://hamumu.itch.io/ (I suggest Spooky Castle, Dr. Lunatic Supreme with Cheese, Loonyland 1 and 2, and Kid Mystic)

http://blupi.org/ (I suggest Speedy Blupi 1 and 2, they're fun platformers; these are ISO files)

Back in my day, we could play any game we wanted without our parents poking their noses in. We were the masters of our own gaming destiny! No helicopter parents telling us what to play or what was "appropriate."
We embraced the freedom to venture into any digital realm, whether it was battling dragons, solving mysteries, or causing mayhem.
Ah, those were the days when gaming was a wild, untamed adventure, and our parents were blissfully clueless about the virtual mischief we were getting up to.

My big sister tried, but luckily no one listened.

I was even able to see RoboCop and later Cyborg uncut in the cinema being only 10 years old. The cinema owner didn't care either :D

Back in these days explicit violence was a lot less visible in games anyway. It was still a long way to Mortal Kombat.
And I can't really remember any story based games for kids from the years to come, it was all just platformers, fighting games, brawlers, Shoot'Em'Ups and racing games. Graphical adventures for kids only really started in the early to mid ninetees.