Steam games for kids advice (aged 4 and 7)

You can try Project Lucie (http://store.steampowered.com/app/684460) - puzzle game for kids, about imagination and etc
Obtainable free Steam version from here: https://store.bistudio.com/products/project-lucie

I don't know if anything here helps I don't have kids btw:

Ben 10
Skyler & Plux
Ginger
Teddy Floppy Ear Games
Defunct
Garfield Kart
Sonic games?

Sorry if nothing was useful.

Free Totemori

Toejam & Earl

http://store.steampowered.com/app/71166/ToeJam__Earl/

And this is supposedly to be coming in 2017

http://store.steampowered.com/app/516110/ToeJam_and_Earl_Back_in_the_Groove/

In a few years they can definitely play deathspank games

Hm, in that age probably nothing text-based. So the question is what difficulty level you want to present them. Personally I would suggest:

• The Maw

It is quite easy all the time and has a very charming character. If you ignore the ever-growing hunger and the destruction coming with it it is extremely well suited for kids. Other than that lot of platformer work also without text like:

• Shu
• Mutant Blobs Attack

But they have quite high difficulty spikes in certain places.

Some may have already been suggested, just listing stuff out that I've played that kids possibly could enjoy as well:

• Castle of Illusion
• Epistory: Typing Chronicles (although I don't remember if there was a difficulty slider)
• Human: Fall Flat
• Octodad: Dadliest Catch (you can change the difficulty to easy or play with your kids)
• Overcooked
• Poi
• RollerCoaster Tycoon series (it's what I played as a kid)
• Scribblenauts
• Slime Rancher
• Starbound
• Terraria
• The Sims

Even more kid friendly games that come to mind (that I never played) would be:

• any HOGs
• anything in the LEGO series
• anything from Humongous Entertainment (Freddi Fish, Pajama Sam, Putt-Putt, Spy Fox)
• Costume Quest
• Draw a Stickman
• Peggle
• Plants vs Zombies
• Teddy Floppy Ear series (the games are extremely cheap at the moment)
• World of Goo

Disney's Aladdin. Probably best to get their first rage quit experience early so they don't grow up breaking tvs/monitors with their controllers :p.

Honestly though, played that as a kid myself and I could never finish the game. Damn Capet Ride is hard D:

I don't know what genres your kids like, but I particularly enjoyed DRAGON: A Game About a Dragon. It's a very cute platformer game with crayon-drawn settings, and while there's things to read between stages, it's not necessary to enjoy the game itself (assuming your language comment was from difficulty reading).

draw a stick man epic

Hollow knight, cuphead, terraria, stardew valley

winnie the pooh .it's a interactive story book

Castle of Illusion?

I used to have a lot of fun just playing Lemmings with my Dad even though I wasn't really "playing" it was mainly him. So have you thought about playing a single player game "together"?

crayon physics deluxe
fairie solitaire
sugar cube
brain pipe
toki tori

all of them tested succesfully with my children at that age

I'm playing BattleBlock Theater and castle crushers with my kid (4). Pretty good experience.

gems of war (free)
trine
lyne
10000000

Definately http://store.steampowered.com/app/207140/SpeedRunners/

Especially as one can play with keyboard and other the controller... max 4 player local

My kids love it!

Also Lethal League, Jump Jet Rex, Rayman Legends and Castle Crashers...

I have a daughter of 7 and we play few games together (although she prefer play Minecraft), the top picks are:

http://store.steampowered.com/app/332310/LEGO_Worlds/ (we play others Lego games but this one is the more fun for her)
http://store.steampowered.com/app/369230/Kung_Fu_Panda_Showdown_of_Legendary_Legends/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/433340/Slime_Rancher/
http://store.steampowered.com/sub/52408/ some of this pack
http://store.steampowered.com/app/34270/SEGA_Mega_Drive_and_Genesis_Classics/ many of this (sonic 1 & 2 more than others)

few years ago we play alot:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/319400/Disney_Winnie_the_Pooh/
http://store.steampowered.com/app/318350/Disney_Fairies_Tinker_Bells_Adventure/

and now that she is playing better with the xbox controller is playing this:
http://store.steampowered.com/app/212480/Sonic__AllStars_Racing_Transformed/

but as i say Minecraft is the most played by she by far...

I'd suggest Wuppo, but the difficulty might be only suitable for the 7yo. Generally pretty good but might take a bit of grappling to get past certain bosses. Otherwise it's lighthearted and cutesy fun.

As a few people have mentioned, you could take a look through the "educational" and "family friendly" tags on Steam

For specific games, A Hat in Time is in the family friendly tag. Heck, that's in my own wishlist.

Spore's good. I played that as a kid. Possibly The Sims.

A few basic games you can get pretty cheap, although they aren't the best, are Abrix for kids, It's Spring Again, and ABC Coloring Town.

Euro truck simulator 2 every kid love playing some truck,car games son from my sister its in love with grid 2 and ets 2 :3

Kid-specific games that I own and the kids played (at least to some extent):

The LEGO games are great. LEGO Marvel Super Heroes is our favourite, but if you're worried about language (not that I remember anything I felt was problematic), the older LEGO games, such as Star Wars, Batman, Harry Potter, have no voices. Co-op, which is always nice (for playing with siblings, friends or parents.)

My 7 year old son is currently enjoying Disney Infinity 3.0, although that's a little too Star Wars oriented for him. There's also Infinity 2.0 and 1.0, but I haven't personally experienced them.

Castle of Illusion, DuckTales Remastered are classics. Didn't get that much play time though.

We finished Never Alone (Kisima Ingitchuna). Co-op.

Rollers of the Realm is great, and both my son and my daughter enjoyed it. Can be played co-op although it's not a good experience.

They're currently playing RiME. It's nice so far.

Rayman Origins is great. I got that for free on Uplay, and we played it quite a bit. Only problem we encountered is a mid-game crash we couldn't get over. I'm not sure if that's hardware specific or Uplay specific or what, but up to that point we had a lot of fun. Co-op.

Scribblenauts unlimited is fun for a bit.

There are some kid adventure games. We played some Teddy Floppy Ear but didn't finish a game. They also played and finished Withc's Pranks: Frog's Fortune.

Toki Tori and Toki Tori+ are decent, but also didn't play through them.

Brothers - A Tale of Two Sons is a good co-op game when played with two people on one controller, though it's a little bit cramped.

Divide by Sheep is decent enough for a 7 year old.

Home Sheep Home 2 is fun.

Zoombinis, well, we didn't play that much of it, but it's okay.

That doesn't completely cover everything my kids played, but it does cover a lot of it. Whether things fit depends on you and your kids. Certainly it's much easy to effectively address the 7 year old than the 4 year old, but most of these games were played by my son before age 7.

http://store.steampowered.com/app/252670/Nihilumbra/
Humongous Entertainment Complete Pack http://store.steampowered.com/sub/42723/
SEGA Mega Drive and Genesis Classics http://store.steampowered.com/sub/102625/

My little sisters and brothers loved playing Castle Crashers, Jamestown, Awesomenauts, Broforce, and Sonic All-stars Racing Transformed. They are aged 8-14. Not sure of what amount of violence you allow the games to have but Castle Crashers and Broforce both are beat-em-ups.

I play with my daughter (6,5y) for a few years, from quite a time she plays mostly single handed but need help with some more hard situations
Games we played:
Need for Speed
Castle of Illusion,
DuckTales Remastered
Giana sisters: twisted dream
Marvin's Mittens
Rayman Legends and Origins
Trine 1-3 (quite hard for kid but she loves just to wonder in there)
Sonic All Star Racing (hit for about 2 years, she plays most times this game)
The Maw
Teddy Floppy Ear series (she liked it a lot about 1,5y ago)

Seems a lot but we play only from time to time, never more than 1h so of course we didn't end most of this game

My sons love the freddi fish, teddy flop, pajama sam, spy fox,putt putt, buzzy and disney games, TY the Tasmanian Tiger, Alphabear (helps with spelling), several match 3 type games, and several jigsaw games (there are free ones on steam) and tabletop simulator.

My oldest also really loves monster jam, monster trucks and Spore