I'm looking for non violent multiplayer games that would be fun for my sister, city building and stuff is fun, but please no games like GTA 5 or payday 2.

Thanks in advance :)

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This game any good on multiplayer? (Without dlc)

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Yeah!
It's fine.
Not that good.
Terrible.. Just.... Terrible..

Are you looking for more games that last long, or mini games stuff?

Maybe it's an idea to download GameCube emulator and play some mario games together from it. I play Mario Kart Double Dash and Mario Sunshine all the time with my friends. Maybe also fun to do with your sister?

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This, Gamecube is the best for multiplayer

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yeah, I also wanted to recommend wii emulator, but then you need to actually purchase wii controller/sensor. gamecube you don't ;)

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I do own a wii but using an emulator would make me feel like I'm stealing from the developers. Is it legal?

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I think that if Nintendo really was against it they would try to shut Dolphin (The Emulator) down. I don't really know if it's legal or not but I don't think you can get in trouble, but this can be different per country. I honestly do not know.

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Could they take down Dolphin, or any of the many other emulators? Most likely not. Emulators are not inherently illegal, as long as they're written using original code, and not using code written by someone else, who as not given you permission to use it. That's why you got things like ePSXe forcing you to use your own BIOS, which they would not supply, if you wanted to use the emulator, because they did not have the rights to that bit, but the actual emulator was not illegal. Nowadays there are PS1 emulators that don't require you to download a BIOS, and that's actually quite important, because now you can fully legally play PS1 games on your PC, as long as you buy the games, even if you don't have a PS1.
And Dolphin would be in a similar situation. I've not looked into it (but I might at some point if my Wii breaks down), there's nothing illegal about it, so Nintendo can't do anything about it, other than sending a strongly worded letter and hope for the best.

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Emulators are not illegal. It's the games you run with it that can be illegally aquired. If you pirate a wii game (in the case of Dolphin), then that is illegal, but you can also use it for games you own for the wii.

Also: Happy cakeday!

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Ahh ok thanks for clarifying. and Thanks :)

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That is only true if u Dump the game yourself if u download a game it is still illegal because you are technically using the license of the person who did dump said game, not the one u have paid for.

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What exactly do you mean with "dump?"

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Dumping means u make a backup from your own physical copy of the product, like ripping a CD.

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Ah ok. In that case you are right. You can indeed only use your own license.

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Its much less legal to actually upload the roms used to play the games but not that legal to play them if I remember correctly

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It's different per country. In my country, the Netherlands, they target the uploaders. Downloading is illegal but they don't want to target everyone who uses the free source, instead they want to get rid of the free source.

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Emulators themselves aren't illegal. A precedent was made in the case between Bleem and Sony many years ago where a judge ruled that if you own a physical medium, you should have the right to play it on any format you choose.

Downloading WII games off the internet and playing them is most definitely illegal though :p

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it's not a precedent. It was a lower court ruling, which does not set precedent. The only part that got appealed, and therefore could be used as a precedent, was related to fair use of screenshots.

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"Although Sony's litigation against Bleem! led the company to bankruptcy, Sony did not manage to win a decisive victory against Bleem! and to have the product removed from shelves after their demise, which is a legal precedent for the commercial viability of emulators[citation needed] invigorating development of many free PlayStation emulators[citation needed] offering 90% or greater compatibility, and with Bleem! generally regarded as obsolete."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bleem!

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Wikipedia is not always 100% correct, and it's not the only time it's been inaccurate about legal technicalities. In the U.S., legal precedent is set on appeals, not in the lower courts.

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it is not legal. If you own the original games, it's questionably a grey area (but not really). Otherwise, you're stealing.

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mostly this ^

though the most illegal part of emulators and roms is neither.. its the bios (strange no1 mentioned this so far)..
the emulators themselves are harmless and perfectly legal, the roms & isos are legal if an original copy is owned by said person, however the only way you can combine the two together into a playable form is by using a BIOS which is very copyright protected by the console developers.. thats why when you download an emulator they tell you to go get the bios separately, that way the emulator software didnt break any laws.

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yeah, well, it's more detail than necessary.

You're absolutely correct, in that emulating hardware is legal (the emulator is merely performing the same functions), whereas copying software is not. the BIOS stores software, a boot loader or an operating system, and therefore copying the content of the BIOS is copyright infringement.
It is possible to reverse engineer the BIOS (see e.g. Compaq or Phoenix Technology reverse engineering IBM's BIOS, which is what started the wintel hegemony), but from a practical perspective it's not worth it for emulator developers to bother with.

Basically, having an emulator is legit, but it needs a BIOS to run. Obtaining the BIOS in a usable form is problematic. Either you need to download it illegally, or you need to own it and use special hardware to convert it into a useful form.
Downloading games from the internet is generally also illegal; you'd need to legally purchase the game and then copy it. But, in the U.S., it's illegal to circumvent anti-piracy measures, so, um, yeah, good luck with that. essentially, there's no legal way to obtain copy to play in your emulator

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Emulators are there to use it with roms you made from your original games, that you own on disk. So it's not legal to download a rom and play it if you didn't buy the game.

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I'm not going to do any emulators because I think its cheating/stealing.

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True, plus some Wii games require a kind of good computer. For example, I have a laptop and it runs almost all my gamecube games but when it tries to play a wii game it craps itself. Happy Cakeday btw :)

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My computer probably can't handle it then..

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Why not consider buying a gamecube/wii? In my opinion these consoles are best to play with friends/family.

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Thank you. I haven't really tried the wii games yet. I'm still waiting for the controllers I bought.

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I do actually own a Wii but it seems like I've beaten or got tired of all the ones I have.

I do not own anything more than a Wii. Unless you count a wired Xbox controller I got so I could play rocket league better.

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happy cakeday xD

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Haha Thank you :)

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How old is your sister? Do you have a particular genre that you are interested in playing? I liked playing c-oop games with my friends & s/o like Wizorb, Portal 2, The Legogames, Castle Crashers, Borderlands 2, and Splelunky.

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The wizorb I found appears to be single player, could be looking at wrong one. Portal 2 is a lot of fun, I'll see if my sister would like it. The Lego games I can play on the wii, good idea, I do own castle crashes so we can try that same screen multiplayer, borderlands 2 is sadly rated M. Splelunky looks fun though!

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Play Streets of Rage Remake with her, it's free from the streets of Rage online webpage, just turn off the blood if there's apparently violence issues, I mean common, she has to grow up at some point and here you are, bringing her into video games, just saying. A good old remade beat em up might go both your alleys, just like Double Dragon Neon. Also Castle Crashers is violent, blood and decapitations all around. Someone's suggesting Age of Empires, I doubt she's into strategy games but hey I could be wrong, Age of Empires games are kinda tame, no blood, just screaming and warfare, could try other free RTS games if you're liking those, games like twisted insurrection, openra although these are more rough but hey, atleast the violence is not full screen. Nothing else non violent but multiplayer doesn't come to mind, violence was never an issue, this really complicates it...maybe fun animated card games like Infinity Wars could suffice? There's also Sonic 2 and Sonic 3, one of you could play as Tails :] if you got the controlers though I think, not sure....there's always Dungeon Defenders and maybe Orcs Must Die 2? Very co-op but a bit violent.

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The violence issues is my protective parents. :(

The first fps game they let me buy was Overwatch. I'm in high school and they don't let me play rated M games unless they say yes ahead of time. (they think violent games will make me less sensitive to violence)

Edit: Overwatch is probably the most expensive game I have ever gotten.

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Concrete Jungle? It's bit like a card game, you basically build against each other in the same ctiy

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It looks like fun! I'll take a look into that to see how much I can trade for it :)

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Look interesting, not the OP but here goes a +1 in my wishlist :)

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I've looked into that before, the only problem is it won't run well on my computer. (Most likely)
Thanks for the comment though :)

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I playing with my son (9y old) different games.
We love Factorio - to build together - and lastly - Gun Bombers.
A gameplay - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ld6ZjFyprus
More players = more fun...

Also we played (and we have fun) - Hammerwatch (explore labirynths etc.)

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They all look like they could be fun, I'll see if any of them are cheaper to trade.

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yeah - I think I might look into Factorio - does look kinda fun :)

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Ah - and I lost one - there are many Lego series to play on multiplayer!
We also played together for few titles (Star wars / super heroes)

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Thanks again :)

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Portal 2 is awesome.
Age of Empires 2 or 3 is another one.

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I'll try and get two copies for age of empires if she is interested, I'll get portal 2 for her when on big sale :)

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if she likes racing, tm nations forever is really great.

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I could not find if it was on steam, I see there is a demo on their website. I might try it.

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Thanks!!!

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How old is she? Any particular themes she likes?

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Sonic & All-stars racing transformed is a great game if you like kart racing games, like Mario kart. I really liked it.
Rise of Nations is excellent in MP

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Mario kart is a lot of fun, we have played Wii version and double dash at a friends house
I'll look up the others I have not heard of

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We both have don't starve together, we actually forgot about it :(
We will play that again.
Battleblock is fun, I also own that, I'll see if she likes it.
Tribe and creativerse look very similar, what's the differences? I've played a bit of trove.

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Not sure about the differences since I only played Creativerse. They're both f2p so maybe let her try them both.

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If you have a Wii U, get Splatoon, it's tons of fun, and doesn't have any gore.

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Sadly I only have a Wii, I do not have any other consuls other that PC.

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Keep Talking and Nobody Explodes
Card Hunter
plus Don't Starve Together like tigerpup said is pretty fun.

For stuff I've heard as a fun co-op game but have not tried myself are:
Lovers in a Dangerous Spacetime
Magicka
Magicka: Wizard Wars

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They all look fun but Magicka might be hard to get the hang of. don't you need to type things in a order to send out your spells?

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I can't fully remember but I think you are right, as far as I can recall its a combo-like sequence, which is can be tricky for a forgetful person like myself. It relies more on memory than reflex or skill based type of gameplay.

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I don't know how old your sister is so I won't suggest games like Viscera Cleanup Detail or Orcs Must Die. However you can try great games like Trine 1-2 (I personally wouldn't recommend Artifacts of Power due to frustrations with gameplay), Portal 2, StarCraft, Torchlight II and Rise of Nations. Badlands Game of the Year Edition might be a good option too even though I didn't try it myself cause it's local coop only :(

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There's a lot of blood and thousands of massacres in StarCraft though, those marine screams in terms of cringy is high... Lots of body parts in Orcs must die fly around, viscera clean up has you moping human blood and rise of Nations is a wargame, war is hell. Just saying.

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That's why I said I won't suggest those games, they were merely mentioned as examples of games that I will NOT suggest :) And from previous replies from the OP, I got the feeling that she might be interested in Strategy games due to city building nature of them if you remove the combat so I suggested Starcraft and Rise of Nations because of that feeling. The OP also said they will ask the sister if she might like Age of Empires (also a war game...)

You kill in these games yes but there is no visible blood. Violent campaign can be skipped completely if you are interested in multiplayer only. Besides marine screaming can be fixed under options; not to mention you can play against each other (they are looking for games to play together after all, they can make up their own rules) and avoid combat altogether and just build stuff, armies etc. Rise of Nations multiplayer has options to make it a Wonder buildings or economy based as win conditions. You can't even kill cause you either need to build enough Wonders of the World or you need to reach a certain economic power to become victorious. It's up to the OP to find out if the sister will be interested in my recommendations.

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Yeah I'll do that. I have played starcraft 2 myself, I could have it just us two in a world and we don't fight. (or she attacks me and I need to defend myself)

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Here are some games I play with my little sister that I highly recommend. Co-op marked with (!)

Share/Split Screen:

  • Battleblock Theater (!)
  • Enter the Gungeon (!)
  • Lovers in Dangerous Spacetime (!)
  • Octodad: Dadliest Catch (!)
  • Rocket League
  • Screencheat (Okay, this is a FPS game but I had to mention it. My sister had a blast with it because she's a little cheater.)
  • Starwhal (Cartoon violence, no blood or anything graphic.)

Multiple PCs:

  • Golf with Your Friends
  • Terraria (!)
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I own most of them so we can try playing those, I do have STARWHAL, I've played that some, screen cheat ive played with my friends and had a blast, I'll see if she likes it too. I do want I do want octodad.. I love rocket league but screen goes black when I turn on split screen :( I'll try battle block theater, I own that :) I'll look up the ones I don't know in a minute.

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The LEGO games are really fun (only single screen coop though). Also: Minecraft. It's actually a really fun game. You can let your imagination go wild while building together.

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Yes! we both play LAN in minecraft :) I've played some lego games on the wii and mabye she would want to play that with me.

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try Ultimate Chicken Horse :3!

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I've never heard of that one!

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amazing game :)

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Don't Starve Together, of course

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I've played that with her and we had fun, I will see if she wants to play that again.

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Critter Crunch is amazing on co-op. My wife didn't play many games but she loves this one.

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Is it same screen multiplayer? It looks like it could be fun!

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Yeah it is. We played through the single-player missions too, adventure, puzzle, challenges etc. taking turns and helping each other which is also good fun. I owned it on PS3 years ago, and had to buy it again on Steam. Watch a few videos, especially of the co-op mode. I can't recommend it enough :-)

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try looking through here http://www.co-optimus.com/games.php

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I've never seen that before thanks!

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You're welcome.
Good luck finding something you want. Having too many options can be hard sometimes.

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Speedrunners, Trine, Trine 2.

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Looks like trine could be some fun, speedrunners is a great idea for us to play too!

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www.vizzed.com

That site is AWESOME.... I suggest, make an account. You gain points for going on the site per day, points can be used to "rent" a game.. It IS a legit site, the owner has "If any developers don't want this on here, please send me an email" It's got games from Atari - PS1 ( that needs a lot of points to rent)

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Never heard of that, I'll take a look.

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Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light
http://store.steampowered.com/app/35130/

Has shared screen. Nice puzzle.

You can play demo on Steam.

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I might give it a try!

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Ibb & Obb is a wonderful coop-game, you could definitely try it!
Kalimba is fun too btw!

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Thanks for the comment, I might try it!

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Worms Ultimate Mayhem. u xcan split screen up to 4 people with 1 keyboard/mouse

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That also looks like a lot of fun!

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any worms game, really. There's a general consensus that Worms Armageddon, the second game in the series, is still the best, though I disagree with that.

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blazblue series ,worm series,....

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The worm games could be a lot of fun!

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Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons is meant to be played single player, but can be played with two on a single controller, with each player using a different side of the controller to control one of the brothers. I played it like this with my daughter and she enjoyed it a lot.

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That could work.. ill watch a gameplay video somtime! Thank You for commenting :)

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Dungeon Defenders its pretty cool (and the second one is f2p)

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That could be fun, ill look more into that game. Thanks for the idea :)

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You can also check Orcs Must Die and Sanctum
I don't think they had any gore.

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I'll look into them thanks :)

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