The important thing is that they are not “addictive” or have (a lot of) ads. I can recommend GCompris, SuperTuxKart and TowerJumper.

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    Morrowind android port

    no but on a real there’s a lot of android ports of old games that aren’t addictive, and all you have to do usually is click install on an apk file.

    Here’s one that requires a bit more setup than that if you’re techy - https://www.reddit.com/r/TrackMania/s/QDNYzg499o

    If that seems too tricky, I still highly recommend the original Trackmania Forever game if you’ve got ANY laptop. Super simple arcadey racing game - completely free - smooth as butter, lots of replayability, runs on anything, you can play against each other, has a track creator mode that’s easy to use, customisable cars - and on, and on. I used to play it when I was about 8-9 years old, then recently when I was babysitting I taught my cousin to play it - he was only 6 years old and loved it. Absolutely brilliant - I used to spend hours playing against my dad back in the day.

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      my toddlers can barely play minecraft or supertux, they’re used to those weird dress up games with ads and stuff. i can’t imagine them play morrowind.

      i know what i said about them playing minetest. they can’t build properly there

      have you tried rvgl? re-volt in general. cool game tbh

      • I remember playing revolt that as a kid (split screen with my brother) and being somewhat amazed at the graphics. It was fun, I would recommend that for a kid. Kids easily get drawn to racing games and it never feels that addictive.

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          also good clean fun, they’re just rc toy cars, not considered violence

          and genuinely fun tbh

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          i was blinded by my attempt at playing the game where i freed slaves and got stuck fighting a banshee ghost or whatever and couldnt play anymore. oh and my inlaw and sister just made them watch tiktoks on their phones and i can’t get them off of the youtube shorts so i sadly can’t get them in the garden much. they DO do stuff in the garden but i can’t do shit about the slop

          ngl trackmania’s cool as fuck, but winlator requires the beefiest of hardware. i don’t know if the op has like super strong android tablets or like me, degoogled android 5 e-waste that i tried very hard to revive.

          rvgl is a goofy physics based racing game with toy cars, tar, bowling balls and firecrackers and has a native android port. check it out!

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            Yeah I think the best way to play Trackmania is just to get an old laptop/desktop. It’s such low software requirements you could probably get one for £40

            Revolt is also a classic yeah, I remember lots of RC car type games around that time. There was a great one the Lego technic racers webpage of all places.