Looking for a survival game I can play with y kids, suggestions

[select20]

Looking to get into a survival game with my kids. They've played minecraft, starbound and terraria to death. Needing something else, one that I'll also play with them. At first I was thinking Ark, but I'm not sure that will be "easy" enough for my 6 year old. PLus it's like $60 now, so buying 3 of those, is a little pricey. I've tried Don't starve, but I personally dont' want to play that.


Anyways, just looking for suggestions.


Thanks.

[Blueobelisk]

Five Nights at Freddy's.

Resident Evil 7 VR.

[select20]

Five Nights at Freddy's.

Resident Evil 7 VR.

Hahaha, my wife would kill me.

[Justpassing]

Hahaha, my wife would kill me.

It'll toughen them up.

[Aeula]

Get them Rust.

[Cyclone Jack]

I've been a fan of Project Zomboid for a while, but I don't think that's suitable for a 6 yr old. The ones you've listed are the games I'd list off the top of my head. I know Stardew Valley is working on some sort of multiplayer patch, so you may want to keep an eye on that.

[Tziva]

Don't Starve Together.

Edit: neeeevermind, saw you've already tried.

[oplawlz]

Unturned is pretty fun, and it's been getting constant updates. Creativerse isn't terrible, but it does have some shady microtransaction stuff.

[select20]

Awesome thanks all, I have all I need I think for us to decide. Much appreciated. I have Thanksgiving break this week and Christmas break 2 weeks after that. So I just wanted to have something we could all do together in the evenings.

[Acidbaron]

Five Nights at Freddy's.

I know someone's kid that is around 8 that plays this game without any issues.

[Elite Peon]

Why not just play world of war craft...survival games have very little replay value ...or league of Legends etc ?

[Deleted]

Conan Exiles is really beautiful, and a lot of fun if you like building. However, it is in early access, has a number of bugs, the servers do crash every now and then, your client will crash every now and then, and if you'd play it with a six-year-old, make sure you've got the "no nudity" -setting on.

There are some animals that are a bit difficult, but I mean, if you stick to the starting areas, you'd be fine. Also, if you'd run it on your PC, you have the admin tools you can use to give the character levels and gear to make stuff easier. PC single player also has several difficulty level choices.

The video in the beginning, as well as the very start of it might be a bit too violent for a young child, but if you'd start the game and run north, there's really not too much violence in the form of bodies or anything like that. There are human NPCs, and they will attack you, but only if you go near their camps. I would say that for base building, and releasing your inner architect, it would definitely be one of the better ones. I'm almost 800 hours into it now since February, and currently I can play just fine through the entire day without crashing, although my client does disconnect every now and then (like, once per day on average, some days it doesn't do that), and the server may crash.

As a whole, you can basically play the game with the only violence being animals killing other animals and you killing animals, so as far as violence goes, it's much less violent than some other games. Starbound has plenty of animal killing, although it's a side scroller and the animals are aliens; Conan does have relatively life-like fauna. I can't say whether it's a game I would let a 6-year-old play, as I don't have a 6-year-old, but I mean, you can check out videos and stuff about it. And, if you do, check out videos and images about all the bases and villages people have built. Just remember the caveats about it being in early access.

survival games have very little replay value

Umm... That's what survival games are actually all about; replayability. Survival games have server wipes, and with some early access ones, new patches with new content come, and you'll need to start over anyway. To say survival games have no replay value is completely bonkers.

[Proskill]

DayZ

yes, it still exists

[Elite Peon]

Actually I thought of a game you and your kids my like but it's mobile ( which has pc workarounds) ...a great game is crashlands and appropriate for the kids