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@2tone, Spiritfarer (https://thunderlotusgames.com/spiritfarer/) is pretty dang good and visually would be awesome for a younger kid. Visually it's probably some of the best to watch. Just be aware it's thematically about death. It's very sweet and wholesome, but you might get some heavier questions about it. There's a lot of stuff that might go over her head but will gut punch you. Could be a great way to have those conversations but, you know, sometimes it's a long day.
On the other end of the spectrum, overwatch is free to play and the roster is crazy diverse. That's actually the game where it "clicked" how important that was for me. Games in a rough spot, but there's still fun to be had time to time.
edit: if you want to give em Nightmares, Prey (2016). Pro: A strong female protagonist in a STEM field! Con: They'll never go into a STEM field because they think you'll be eaten by monsters.
edit: Maybe fallout 4? It's Bethesda so the combat animation is about as visceral as a cartoon. An RPG could be fun because you could ask them where they want to go etc. Plus: It's got a dog.
Annoyingly there's some infrequent and arguably uneccessary swearing in Spiritfarer. But if you're reading to the child you could skip those words of course.
Spiritfarer is probably the one piece of media to make me most afraid of death.
It’s a story with a truly evil and heartless antagonist, who never gets any kind of retaliation or comeuppance - because he’s a primal force that will exist for all time and cannot be stopped.
That... Is an absolutely wild take on this game, yet I can see how you could go there.
It’s a lategame thing, but you end up getting a conversation with Death, and he definitely doesn’t come across as the “undesired but pleasant end” type of guy he is in the Discworld books. He’s “mean”, he greedily steals beloved people from you, and knows how much he’s hurting you. It’s chilling to compare to a lot of games where you would meet a guy like that and get to beat him up.
Ah, that is a good point.