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Disco Elysium perhaps? Like there is some rare instances of violence, but the point of the game isn't to be a violence simulator.

Hardly a game for kids though, perhaps mostly because they wouldn't be able to relate to the world or its characters.



A dead person hanging from a tree a few minutes in. There's lots of violence in the game.


Violence isn't the point of the game, but the gritty backdrop.

It's a philosophical treatsie thinly disguised as a game about a cop with a mid life crisis.


Sure but it permeates the whole thing. It's a violent game, you just don't happen to be the agent of the violence. Still the opposite of 'non-violent game'.


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but if you actually read the OP

Yes, when someone asks for games that don't involve violence, guns, war and is suitable for playing with children, the answer is not 'something that's not Doom' but a game that doesn't involve violence, guns, war and is suitable for playing with children.


Are we reading different threads? I can't find any of those specifications.


They’re looking for a game with a great story that doesn’t have a gun or violence involved.

A core thread of disco is a gun. and meticulously scheming violence.

And it’s also not for kids in that medium. Very obtuse words.


Right, but guns and violence and aggression aren't portrayed as fun things in Disco Elysium. They are portrayed as bad things. I don't understand why people are so caught up on kids games when the OP is looking for games to play themselves OR with their kids. That "or", while not a long word, makes a huge difference.


the OR is important, maybe I'll suggest Death Stranding after all then. Kojima specifically wanted a game not focused on violence and instead of symbol of "togetherness".




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