10 Kid Friendly PlayStation 4 Video Games

It’s finally here!  The new PlayStation 4!  Woohoo!  PlayStation is known for for their graphics, innovation, and appeal to hard core gamers, but the many people aren’t aware of the great kid friendly PlayStation video games available.  And this does not change with the new PlayStation 4 that just hit the market last month.

Just in time for Christmas, we pulled together some of the most fun kid friendly PlayStation 4 games aimed towards kids.  All of these games are rated E or E+10 by the ESRB Board.  If you’re not familiar with the ESRB Board, take notice.  The ESRB rates all video games and even gives details as to why they rated a game they way they did.  With the plethora of games available out there, it’s hard to know if the game your child is dying for is appropriate fo them.  Just look for the ESRB rating on the game box to gauge for yourself.  And you can look online or in their free ESRB app to get more info. on the game.

Onto our list of top Kid Friendly PlayStation 4 Family Games…

Angry Birds Star Wars – Rated E for Everyone

Who doesn’t love Angry Birds?  We reviewed Angry Birds Trilogy last month and loved blasting away those piggies on the big screen.  But Angry Birds Star Wars ups the game with allowing more than one player at a time to play!  You can play competitively with up to 4 players or cooperatively with 2 players.  Love it!  You’ll fight off the horrifying Darth Vader, Dark Lord of the Pigs and his Pigtroppers in this fun intergalactic journey with over 200 levels of play, hidden items, and bonus content.

Skylanders Swap Force Rated E 10+ for Kids 10 and Over

Skylanders Swap Force builds upon the widely successful Skylanders Spyro’s, Giants, and more adventures to bring unprecedented customization.  The new Swap Force characters have a magnetic binding to hold together the top half with the bottom half.  Put your character into the game by placing them on the portal.  To take advantage of particular powers associated with another character, just swap out the bottom or top half one one character with that of another creating unique gameplay experiences.  In this game, the SWAP Force found themselves blasted away from the volcano they protected, because of its ability to replenish Skyland’s magic.  The blast landed them on Earth and it gave them the ability to swap powers.  Help them to return to save Skylands.

Knack Rated E 10+

Knack  An invading goblin army has threatened to wipe out mankind.  Their only hope is Knack, who stands just three feet tall.  Fortunately, with the help of mysterious ancient relics, Knack can transform into a monstrous wrecking machine.  Knack is a fun adventurous game that allows drop-in/drop-out cooperative play at any point during the game.  A unique aspect of the game is the ability to unlock gadget parts and crystal relics in the Knack’s Quest mobile game app and transfer them to your PS4 system to use in the game.  Knack takes full advantage of the superior graphics PS4 provides.

Doki Doki Universe Rated E10+

Doki Doki Universe was my favorite game from the E3 Video Games tradeshow earlier in the year.  We listed it, Knack, and the Legos Super Heroes as some of our favorites for the year in our article, The Best Upcoming Family Games from E3 2013.   Doki Doki in Japanese means, “to make your heart beat fast,” as if in love or within a highly emotional state.  It’s very fitting for the game.  Doki Doki Universe is about a robot who gets dropped off in the outer universe by its family and was told they would return to pick him up.  Twenty-six years later, he is still waiting.  He meets a representative from the robot factory where he was made who tells him that his model is about to be discontinued due to its lack of humanity.  The representative evaluates the robot’s responses as he encounters various characters and situations along his way.  When encountering different situations, you have three choices as to how you want the robot to interact.  Based on those choices, the game begins creating a profile on you that can tell you more about your personality, calculated on standards like Myers-Briggs, Enneagram, and a Japanese Kokology system which evaluates people based on decisions made in hypothetical situations.  It’s really a fun and informative game for children and adults.

Lego Marvel Super Heroes E 10+

Lego Marvel Super Heroes is an entertainment haven for those who love the Marvel characters.  Marvel Super Heroes gives you the power to choose which superhero can best help you with the task at hand, whether it’s moving large objects out-of-the-way, getting to high out-of-the-way places, or fighting Sandman, Loki, and Magneto.  Similar to utilizing different weapons within your arsenal, you switch superheroes dependent upon your need.  Superheroes Hulk, Iron Man, Wolverine, Captain America, Thor and many others are at your disposal, in fact, there are over 100 Marvel characters in the game!   Players chase down Cosmic Bricks as they venture around New York and places around the Marvel Universe, such as Start Tower, Asteroid M, and the X-Mansion.

Sound Shapes Rated E

We wrote about SoundShapes back in 2012, citing it as a must have game for the PS Vita and PS3.  It’s a simplistic looking game with a rolling ball you guide along sometimes treacherous landscapes to pick up sound wave circles, which enliven the game with various music and beats. s you roll along, you can jump up and over objects, stick onto walls and defy gravity, and speed roll which gives you momentum to jump farther and faster.  Once you roll from one side of the screen to the other successfully, you go to the next screen.  I’m delighted to learn that PlayStation has not only made necessary changes so SoundShapes can play on the PlayStation 4, but they have also added two new sound packs including  1. electro funk synthetic voices of the Vocoder Sound Pack, and 2. the flute loops and jazz bass of the Old School Sound Pack.

Better yet, PlayStation has decided to offer the PS4 version for free if you have already purchased SoundShapes for your PS Vita or PS3.  In fact, even if you only have the PS Vita version, you can now play the SoundShapes for free on your PS3 now too.  I’m looking forward to playing SoundShapes on the big screen in addition to my PS Vita version.  It’s a great game.

Tiny Brains – Rated E 10+ for Kids 10 and Over

Tiny Brains is a cooperative puzzle in which four super-powered lab animals must combine their unique physics-based powers to escape a trick-ridden maze stemming from a mad scientist’s experiments.  Puzzles can be solved a multitude of ways dependent upon how groups combine their powers together.  The game is designed to appeal to both hardcore gamers and casual gamers and utilizes simple controls so players of any level can jump right in.

Octodad:  Dadliest Catch Rated E+10

Just Dance Rated E 10+

The widely popular Just Dance series has now debuted their latest version, Just Dance 2014.  Just Dance is the #1 best-selling dance game in the world.  Dance 2014 includes over 40 of the hottest songs including current pop hits and legendary classics.   Songs include Katy Perry’s ‘Roar,’ Robin Thicke’s ‘Blurred Lines,’ One Direction’s ‘One Way or Another,’ Lady Gaga ‘Applause,’ Gloria Gaynor’s ‘I Will Survive,’ The Village People’s ‘YMCA,’ and much more.  Just Dance even includes a “Just Sweat Mode,” which allows you to personalize workouts by creating customized playlists and tracking calories.  Cool.

Disney INFINITY E 10+

INFINITY is Disney’s huge entry into the toy/video game crossover arena.   Not a company to do things small, Disney has entered into Skylanders’ competitive territory with 25 fun and well-loved Disney collectible characters that can be transformed from a child’s physical world to the animated Disney INFINITY world by placing their favorite character on a portal.  Placing a Monsters Inc. character boots up the Monsters Inc. game while placing a Davy Jones character on the portal boots up the Pirates of the Caribbean game.  Characters cannot go into worlds that aren’t theirs, which is a strict rule Disney adheres to, unless you play in the Toy Box mode.  The Toy Box mode lets you create your own came with all the characters, buildings, weapons, landscapes, and more that you’d like.  You can even build your own Disneyland!  There are no rules here.

Disney INFINITY promises to be THE game of Christmas this year and will be available on all most gaming consoles, along with various add-on playsets which allow you to explore even more worlds with other favorite Disney characters.  Even the upcoming Lone Ranger movie will be represented.  Learn more at Disney’s INFINITY  site.

It’s going to be a fun year enjoying the new HD graphics and feature enhancements on the new PlayStation 4 and now with a multitude of kid friendly PlayStation 4 video games, you don’t have to wait until your child becomes a teenage to take advantage of the PlayStation 4 graphics.  We enjoy playing PlayStation games and are excited about all of the new titles available to play.

What are some of your favorite PlayStation games?