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#269686 2-Apr-2020 12:55
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Hi. 

 

So, I wanted to see if anyone had any recommendations: 

 

 

 

1) I'd quite like to play Portal 2 with my 11 Year old Son. He has a reasonable laptop, does he need his own steam and copy of the game or can we piggy back him off my account easily?

 

2) Remember those text-based adventure games from YEARS ago? No pictures and simply commands you typed to interact? Does anyone know of any kid-friendly ones? 

 

3) Boulderdash, any recommendations on a decent remake of this game? PC or Android. 

 

Cheers

 

 

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  #2452909 2-Apr-2020 12:58
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steam share only allows the game to be played on one computer at a time, in most cases.



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  #2452921 2-Apr-2020 13:13
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There are some Steam games that support remote play sharing.

 

 

 

https://store.steampowered.com/remoteplay





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  #2452959 2-Apr-2020 13:50
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you could try the Pajama Sam series of games,  my kids loved them . age of 8-12

 

https://store.steampowered.com/app/283960/Pajama_Sam_No_Need_to_Hide_When_Its_Dark_Outside/




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  #2452977 2-Apr-2020 14:21
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my 10 year old is rocking starcraft 2 on an 5 year old office pc.

 

We play some missions together every so often as well.

 

The whole first campaign is free

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  #2453618 3-Apr-2020 11:05
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Too Answer some of my own questions:

 

I found this from years ago: So cool. I recommend highly.

 

https://turtleacademy.com/

 

It's from the old Apple Logo Programming Language.

 

 

 

1) Apparently remote play works, haven't had a chance to try it.

 

2) https://ifdb.tads.org/poll?id=z9shyw6mdia3jdud

 

3) https://boulder-dash.com/

 

 

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  #2453709 3-Apr-2020 12:39
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not sure if age appropriate but Age of Empires remake is $12 on steam at the moment.  might need 2 copies for LAN but hours of replay.

 

 

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  #2453720 3-Apr-2020 12:54
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ToeJam & Earl: Back in the Groove!  $4.62 on Steam until 7-april

 

 

 

Grim Fandango Remastered ($8.99) is also listed as a play together game but I didn't know it was co-op /shared so not 100% sure

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