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[delphonso]

Question:
What pc games would you recommend for a six year old? Reading, or even spoken instructions, is out of the question. Everything during the gameplay has to be purely visual.
All I can think of that I have in my library is Super Meat Boy or Luftrausers. But they both seem too hard by design.

Puttputt, Bomberman, Tetris, Mario.

They aren't PC games generally, ... yaharr.

I played a lot of minigolf and bowling games/pinball before switching to things with...you know...plots.

[EuchreJack]

That all sounds like fun, actually.

[King Zultan]

What about minecraf, I don't remember any reading or talking in that.

[TamerVirus]

I'd recommend Katamari Damacy: It's cute, colorful, and the only gameplay is rolling things up into a giant ball of stuff.

I think they ported the reroll remake onto steam

[dragdeler]

wnc

[Il Palazzo]

Cheers. We'll try some of those.

[Rolan7]

The Wonderful End Of The World is a PC version by the folks who made AaaAAaAAa (A Reckless Disregard for Gravity) [The game where you fall down a floating cityscape or glide down mountains].  Both games have very simple controls and gameplay with big colorful buttons.  There is extra stuff to unlock but it's not really important, other than new levels.

[TamerVirus]

The Wonderful End of the World is pretty much a Katamari ripoff except with a big puppet thing instead of a ball thing

[feelotraveller]

Untitled Goose Game is a scream for kids in the mid single digits.  It does have very occasional minimal written task lists but its basically open-ended.  Check the videos...

[Il Palazzo]

Keep those coming if you want. I'm sure they'll come in handy in the future. For now, it appears that (oddly enough) Super Meat Boy is keeping the kid occupied for an hour every day.

[scriver]

But super meat boy is so damned hard it makes my mad just playing it

Also obligatory don't let children under age 27⅗ play video games comment

[Il Palazzo]

Yeah, man. In a few days he went from 'I don't understand the concept of not mashing buttons' to clearing some stages on first attempt. Children are scary.

Also obligatory don't let children under age 27⅗ play video games comment

...because they'll merge with the AI and the resultant hivemind will reign for millennia?

[TD1]

I'm still not okay with the flagrant use of fiction-books in the rearing of children. Papyrus scrolls... maybe, but only if they've been thrice-dipped in the Nile.

[None]

Donut County is fun for a few hours, reading is entirely optional- you just move a hole around and drop stuff into it. Slime Rancher is the cutest goddamn thing and is mostly visual, but might present small hurdles at buying upgrades for your ranch plots or character upgrades (not like it's possible to screw this up unless you press the 'clear plot' button). Erh, Sonic Mania probably works? shapez might be fun if your kid is industrious, you can try it out on their website at https://shapez.io/ before you buy.

[Egan_BW]

I'd be tempted to put a kid in front of some Zacktronics game and see if they figure it out. My usage of the word "if" there may imply a possibility that the kid isn't entertained, but it would be a fun experiment.