9 y/o and 7 y/o

Board Games:
Ticket to Ride
Pandemic
Santorini

Strategy Games:
Star Wars Imperial Assault
Gloomheaven (might be mature theme, fantasy world killing monsters and such).

Trading Card Game:
Magic The Gathering

RPG:
Starfinder - space fantasy RPG based on the dungeons and dragons system. I picked this to minimize fantasy violence.
No Thank You Evil - children theme entry level RPG. Rules are simple enough that the average parent or even older children can run the game as game master.

Out of all these, I think RPG is the best, since children’s imagination are not really bound by rules and can run wild. In starfinder his character is currently a mechanic with a battle drone, that is also the starship’s engineer and science officer. You need to find a local gaming group that’s willing to take younger kids. We were lucky to find a group that welcomed my son with open arms.

Otherwise, I highly recommend no thank you evil. It’s not hard for the parent to pick up and run the game.

Last edited by galun; 03/20/18 10:25 AM.