Stop downloading games. Instead...

Plus, avoid ads and micro transactions

🫠Struggling to decide if a game or app is OK for your kid? Overwhelmed with all the options? Hate all the “free” games with ads and microtransactions? This will help! And it’s PERFECT to do before the holiday season so you don’t have to buy a lot of games.

✈️As we were prepping for travel I was updating our ipad and remembered how hard it is to find games that are fun, safe, and appropriate.

🛑Often games that are free are actually “free to play” and incentivize spending money through tricky mechanics or ads, which can be inappropriate

🤩Imagine my delight when I realized we could get Apple Arcade for free for 6 months through Verizon

🕹️Apple Arcade (and the very similar Google Play Pass) are paid ($5 month) subscriptions to game libraries. But the plus side is they don’t allow games that rely on microtransactions or predatory mechanics

🤔This doesn’t mean every game will be a good fit for every family but it does lighten the load of trying to determine if a game is OK or not.

🥴Of course, there are downsides. Currently you cannot search for games in Apple Arcade, but you can filter by category and age rating, which helps.