Just started getting into board games and dice games with my kid. She loves munchkin so far and we got 2 sets along with the princess booster pack. I got some dice masters but that being only 2 player and complicated (at least to my dumb ass) has me looking for some other games that a 5yr old and her parents might get into. We already have zombie dice just because its a Steve Jackson game and played on tabletop. Any good web sites to detail games for kids? Any recommendations?
Here are a few great games we play with our kids:
Survive: Escape Atlantis - A personal and family favorite. No dice, simply to play, difficult to master. A child should learn the game after 2 or 3 turns. Turns go fast so no one waits long at all before they get to go. Also, the island map changes every turn and so it keeps a kid's attention very well. Warning: It is a vs. game where people are actively fighting against each other. Some kids (and grown ups that act like kids) handle vs. games better than others. For my girls, getting their people safely off of the sinking island is completely secondary to trying to kill everyone else with whales, sharks, octopi, and sea monsters. This game gets better and better as the game progresses. Highly engaging and fun.
Zombies!!! - Simple game, simple rules. A modular tile system where players try and get to a helipad to escape a city overrun by zombies or be the first to kill "X" number of zombies. There is a "screw your neighbor" component to the game as well as some card art that some kids might find frightening depending on how sheltered they are. My kids
adore the theme, but we don't use the cards because we kept this game as simple as possible. Rolling to move/fight any zombies and using heart/bullet tokens to modify roll results is a simple risk vs reward concept that my kids latched on to immediately. They also get a weird thrill out of fighting and collecting zombie kills as well as moving zombies towards the other players in order to eat them. There are a million expansions for this. It can be as long/short or simple/complex as you want it to be.
King of Tokyo- This could be a little too much at once for many 5yr olds. They have to read ability cards (an adult can easily explain them though) and apply it's ability to an overall strategy. My kids both played it just fine at ages 5&6, but the adults had to hand hold them through a few games before they really got it. They are ages 6&8 now and can explain the game to others at family gatherings. Great art and theme, but it's also a vs. game.
Sushi Go - Card game with simple math a adorable art. Simple rules too. Fast games.
