+1 for World of Zoo. My 6-year-old loves this. Granted, 9 is much more developed than 6. But it's pretty easy, fun, and ridiculous.
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first choice
Floras Fruit Farm casual, simply, colorful, definitely for girls! she will love to be a gardener =]and
Peggle Extreme - and more PopCap Games. easy to learn, easy to master. And Peggle Extreme is Free Game on Steam, so try it out!
Shelter let's be a badgers mom:) short (1h +), maybe not to easy for kids, but it's worth to play this game with them. for sure!
Fortix 1 or 2 easy to learn, certainly.
Jet Set Radio rather easy to play, arcade, colorful, often is cheap (<1$)
and maybe:
Dust: An Elysian Tail right now is in the HB11 (1$+ tier), colorful, easy, "animated"
Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams you can buy it in the same HB11 tier, sometimes difficult, but who know?
bit.trip any from this series, but that games isn't too casual
And Yet It Moves
Superfrog HD
Anomaly Warzone Earth casual tower defence without graphic violence + aliens and army, kids love this, mostly boys;)
Joe Danger 1 and 2
Thomas Was Alone easy to play, colorful
Offspring Fling! if she like logical/puzzle games, not to difficult
Electronic Super Joy (thats joke of course;)
cheers!
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CoD(jk) Seriously don't get it... On a serious note the current Humble Indie Bundle can be suitable for your niece.. They are mostly platformers like Giana Sisters,Guacamelee etc.. U can also get Plant Vs Zombies but it is not on steam(I guess)
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+1 plants vs zombies and other popcap games games
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Popcap games (peggle, bejeweled, zuma, feeding frenzy etc) might be suitable.
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Scribblenauts Unlimited is great, if english is her language.
I would also suggest some old point & click games such as Day of the Tentacle, Monkey Island, Sam & Max Hit the Road... 'cause I grew up with them :-D
Machinarium, Osmos, Portal & Portal 2, Wallace & Gromit (Telltale games)...
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Minecraft
Pokémon
Zoo Tycoon
SimCity
You know kids can make anything a game, but they want to play what their friends are playing, so just ask them about those.
You shouldn't limit yourself to steam. Get an emulator or just buy a console for the kid. Minecraft is a really big game with that demo.
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9 years old, mhhh..
I guess you could always try "Nature" - it has awesome graphics (any PC [personal corpus] should be able to play it, though!), sounds, music and replayability!
I'd rate it 9.5/10 (the -0.5 is because of some bugs that sucked back in the days and still weren't fixed).
Definitely try "Nature" - it consumed pretty much my entire childhood, so you see how great it is :)
Oh did I forget to mention that it doesn't have neither a monthly subscription model nor a pay2win-microtransactions model, it is absolutely free and every player has the equal opportunity to "win" :)
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Yes. Buy her a ball or kite and go out with her :)
If you really want a game I recommend Terraria. Cutting trees, building house (and furnitures) and staying in it during nihgt to hide from monsters is fun. But you should play with her to help carfting things.
Also The Sims should be ok.
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Although sometimes you need to get ingame money to buy some ingame items just like a ball or some stuff like, but apart from that I'd agree with your opinion. This is one of the best games for this age ;-)
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She don't like platformers ? Coz the Rayman Game are funny and kid friendly. Also Guacamelee isn't necessarly the easiest game for a 9 year old but the latest Humble Bundle Pack offers 4 nice Platformers for 1$ including it. Maybe let her have a go at it for what it costs.
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Humongous Entertainment* image
*Probably going to have to torrent their shit. Unless you want to look for it piece by piece in flee markets or something.
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not sure if anyone has mentioned it (too lazy to scroll :D), but the LEGO games might be good, i believe they have various language settings and are very suitable for kids, plus it would bring her into the universe of some of the great movies
eg. indiana jones, harry potter, marvel heroes, star wars, LOTR and so on
and regarding the language there's english, danish, french, german, italian and spanish - and that's all written language, the Lego figures don't really speak any understandable language.. but if these languages don't fit in with your needs, don't fret the games are very intuitive (the ones I've played at least which is indiana jones and batman)
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I think this games are good for 9 years old.
Costume Quest, Stacking, Bastion, Burnout Paradise, Capsized, Cave Story+, Closure, Dirt 2 or 3, Don't Starve, Dock Clock, Dust: An Elysian Tail, FEZ, Giana Sisters, Guacamele, Ignite, Intrusion 2, Karateka, LIMBO, Little inferno, Magicka, Patrician, Mutant muds, Offspring Fling!, Orcs Must Die! 2, Pinball FX 2, Proteus, Psychonauts, Rochard, Rocketbirds, Scribblenauts Unlimited, Shatter, Snapshot, Starbound, Surgeon simulator 2013, terraria, Thomas was alone, Tiny and Big, all Trine games, Vessel.
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Zoo Tycoon, Knights and Merchants(plus KaM Remake mod, has a lot of translations), World of Goo, Settlers, Age of Empires, Sims.
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For my niece. Shes tired of sonic all star racing and before you say it no she won't like secret of the magic crystals and besides she won't understand a thing.
Something easy and sandboxy.
I should add that her english isn't very good and castle of illusion was too hard for her so she would need something easy and simple to understand.
Also the game has to be on steam and easy, shes really bad at platformers.
After some consideration I have decided that I will force her to play bad rats.
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