10 Best PC Games for Kids UK | Minecraft Spyro and More

Having amassed 140 million active players worldwide, Minecraft is the most popular video game of all time – and it's easy to see why. It offers vast open worlds where you're able to destroy, move and create the various blocks that make up the game world.

Often described as the video game equivalent of LEGO, Minecraft allows kids to let their imaginations run wild and create beautiful sculptures, landscapes and even fully working computers within the game itself. There's also plenty of exploration and adventures to be had, with Skeletons and Dragons to defeat; it really does have something for everyone.

The Sims remains one of the most popular family-friendly franchises in existence thanks to the level of control it offers its players. You can create a family and build the perfect house, or hang out with your friends and have your sim work on a bestselling novel. The possibilities are almost endless.

It also does a great job of easing children into adulthood, subtly teaching them how to maintain a home, the significance of hard work in attaining your goals, and the importance of interpersonal relationships. 

Although it has the Minecraft name, this dungeon-crawling adventure tasks its players, either working together or playing solo, to fight their way through multiple action-packed levels while picking up loot and defeating bosses. It's available in a standard or ultimate edition, the latter of which features extra downloadable content. 

Mojang were careful to make sure that anyone can play Minecraft Dungeons regardless of their age, mainly by including a wide variety of customisable difficulty settings. The most interesting of these is a threat slider, allowing you to tune the experience to your skill level. 

If you grew up in the 90s, you may have fond memories of playing the Spyro games that were originally released on the PS1. The Reignited Trilogy masterfully brings those excellent platformers into the 21st century and has collected them together in this great value trilogy.

There are hundreds of hours of fun in these collect-a-thons, with Spyro and his friends having never looked better in stunning HD. If you want to introduce a child to the types of games you played when you were younger, there's no better option out there.

For older children, Stardew Valley is a great escape to the countryside where you're tasked with turning the run-down fields and buildings, left to you by your grandfather, into a thriving homestead. 

Stardew Valley fosters a sense of cooperation and community more than any other we've found, with over 30 fully-fledged characters for the player to interact with and help. The whole game is built around doing your part for the community, whether that's growing vegetables for the market or renovating broken-down structures.

Some games take a little while to get into, but within a minute of booting up Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout, your kids will be running around and bumping into other players as they try to come out on top in one of the game's many slapstick levels. 

Fall Guys is styled after the many obstacle course game shows aimed at children, with each level offering a different challenge be it a race to the end, bumping other players off platforms or team-based knockouts. There are also plenty of customisation options for your little jelly bean avatar.

If you're looking for something cheap and fun for your child to sink hours into, then Bloons TD 6 is a fantastic choice that won't require you to spend big on a AAA title. The gameplay is fast-paced and endless, with colourful balloons and energetic characters filling the screen.

Bloons TD 6 can get a little overwhelming at times, leading to possible frustrations, but with adjustable difficulties, any stress can be easily mitigated. It offers fun and frantic gameplay, but those looking for a story should head elsewhere.

The best way to describe Psychonauts 2 is as a comedic and colourful videogame version of the film Inception, where your goal is to enter the world inside a person's mind in order to help them overcome difficulty or to heal trauma. 

The original Psychonauts actually pre-dates Inception, so the team at Double Fine can be considered trendsetters in this case. However, even though it carries a 7+ rating and the tone is comedic, the psychedelic and twisted art style may be too much for some children.

If you're looking for an action-adventure full of familiar faces, then LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is a fun-filled experience chock full of characters. The puzzles are enjoyable, making full use of the LEGO license, and everything explodes with colour.

The LEGO games have a reputation for being very easy, and while that isn't necessarily a bad thing, once the novelty of playing as your favourite heroes wears off there's little challenge to keep you coming back for more. You'll know better than us whether playing as LEGO Captain America or Iron Man will keep your child entertained for weeks or hours.

The first thing to mention about this long-running racing series is the extensive difficulty options which include multiple settings for driver assistance as well as the ability of the AI drivers. You can tweak the options to either play a realistic driving simulation or more arcade-style racer.

While the Forza games, for our money, are the best racing games in the world, racing games are something of a love it or hate it genre. If your child is a fan of cars, they'll love it, but if not, you might want to look elsewhere.