What are the best Family Friendly games on Steam?

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Best Family Friendly games on Steam	Price	Steam Rating	Genre
-- Cities: Skylines	$29.99	Very Positive	City Simulation
-- Scribblenauts Unlimited	-	Very Positive	-
-- Golf With Friends	$5.99	Very Positive	-
-- Ballistic Mini Golf	$4.99	Mixed	-

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Cities: Skylines

Top Pro

Large scale

At a total of 36 square kilometers of area to use (compared to Sim Cities 4), there is quite a bit of room to build and play. See More

Top Con

Can be difficult to glean what one has done wrong in game

Cities: Skylines has difficulty letting the player know what they have done wrong, which results in a lot of head scratching. See More

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

Genre:City Simulation

Top Pro

Depth of field

There is a depth of field effect that will blur distant buildings, which mimics Sim City's diorama effect. It can of course be adjusted with a slider as to how much or little to use. See More

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Scribblenauts Unlimited

Top Pro

Encourages creativity

In Scribblenauts, the goal is to help other characters perform physics based tasks, and you can solve them in any way you want. You can create any object by typing it out and use them in creative ways to solve the puzzles. See More

Top Con

Builds vocabulary

You can write in tons of nouns and have them appear in game. You can also add adjectives to the nouns to modify them. By having the words appear and add to the gameplay, it encourages building a larger vocabulary. See More

Top Pro

Not too difficult

The game has an appropriate difficulty level for kids and because puzzles can be solved in different ways, the difficulty in inherently flexible. See More

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Golf With Friends

Top Pro

Simple, but fun

The simple controls are easy to pick up, but hard to master. When you're playing with friends, it's a nice competitive environment with ample originality and thought put into the level design. See More

Top Con

Non-ergonomic menu

The main menu isn't very intuitive, but it does look nice. After a bit of hunting you can find what you're looking for, but it could certainly be made easier. See More

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Steam Rating:Very Positive

Top Pro

Interesting ranges keep players engaged

From rolling logs, rotating parts of the range, and super-speed convener belts, the more difficult ranges have obstacles which would be virtually impossible in real-world minigolf. If you want to go even more interesting, you can change your golf balls out for cones, which will roll unpredictably and turns the difficulty up to 11. See More

Top Con

Hard to view the range before shooting

Some of the ranges have obstacles which are hard to see before shooting - for example jumps over a streams, drops, or other obstacles. You can zoom out and pan around from your starting position, but you can't preview the range from the top. See More

Top Pro

Active developers

This game is still extremely early access, but the devs are regularly updating with bug fixes and additional content. See More

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Ballistic Mini Golf

Top Pro

Challenging gameplay

The early holes are easy but the difficulty of the game keeps increasing and provides a really satisfying and challenging gameplay. From time to time the game introduces new type of obstacles like booster zones, rotating and spinning platforms. See More

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Steam Rating:Mixed

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4 Games Considered

Cities: Skylines

My Recommendation for Cities: Skylines

My Recommendation for Cities: Skylines

Large scale

Can be difficult to glean what one has done wrong in game

Depth of field

Scribblenauts Unlimited

My Recommendation for Scribblenauts Unlimited

My Recommendation for Scribblenauts Unlimited

Encourages creativity

More inventive solutions often do not work

Builds vocabulary

Not too difficult

Golf With Friends

My Recommendation for Golf With Friends

My Recommendation for Golf With Friends

Simple, but fun

Non-ergonomic menu

Interesting ranges keep players engaged

Hard to view the range before shooting

Active developers

Ballistic Mini Golf

My Recommendation for Ballistic Mini Golf

My Recommendation for Ballistic Mini Golf

Challenging gameplay

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