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Recommended PC Games

Overview

Video games are often painted as being at odds with Christian moral values. While this is true some of the time, the games listed here are proof that you can have a good time on your computer without making compromises.

This list only contains games that I feel are completely appropriate for Christian players of all ages. Things like fairy tale magic or a small amount of violence may still be present, but you won't find anything offensive among the games in this list.

Simply click on a game's title to view the full review.

Games in this List

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Car Mechanic Simulator 2014

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Simulation
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 is almost entirely explained by its title: the entire game revolves around repairing damaged cars or making changes to their components to make them run a little better. Surprisingly, it's actually a really fun game and a great way to spend a relaxing evening.

Brief thoughts: There is nothing offensive to be found here, though I'd suggest playing one of the newer Car Mechanic Simulator games instead, as they offer better features.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2015

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Simulation
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Car Mechanic Simulator 2014 was an extremely fun game for what it was. I didn't expect it be much fun at all, but then that game went and surprised me with how much fun it was! However, there were some things that could have been done better, and Car Mechanic Simulator 2015 not only fixes the majority of these details, but it also adds some new concepts that make repairing virtual cars even more fun!

Brief thoughts: This game doesn't contain anything to be concerned about, unless you frequently lose track of how long you've been playing. In which case, plan to quit at a given time and stick to it.

Car Mechanic Simulator 2018

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Simulation
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The 2018 edition of popular the Car Mechanic Simulator series brings with it a host of new features and quality of life improvements that fans of this franchise are sure to love! Importantly, DLC has been relegated to optional content - licensed cars and so on - so you can enjoy all of the new mechanics with just the base game!

Brief thoughts: You won't find anything offensive in this game - unless you count the way some people have treated their cars. On the other hand, it's easy to play for longer than intended, so be sure to watch your time.

Castle of Illusion

ESRB Rating:	E - Everyone
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Platformer
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In this remastered classic, Mickey and Minnie's picnic was interrupted by the evil witch Mizrabel, who flew over and trapped Minnie in a magical bubble! Now Mickey must enter the witch's castle, defeat the Masters of Illusion, and save Minnie before Mizrabel can steal her youth!

Brief thoughts: Although this game does feature a witch and contains a lot of the classic Disney magic, there's nothing too serious to worry about here.

Catlateral Damage

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Simulation
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Have you ever wanted to be a kitty cat? Well here's the game for you. The entire point of this silly game is to explore your environment, play with cat toys, and perform the feline's most sacred duty: knock things off the table.

Brief thoughts: The entire point of the game is to cause mayhem by knocking stuff over. In other words, you'll acting like a typical housecat.

Cats Organized Neatly

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle
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Do you like solving puzzles? How about cats? In this cute game, you'll spend your time trying to figure out how groups of cats fit into the space available.

Brief thoughts: There's nothing offensive to be found here - this is a purrfectly clean and wholesome little game!

Cat Goes Fishing

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Sports
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Cat Goes Fishing is one of those games that explains themselves with just their title. You're playing as a cat that decided to go spend their time fishing. But while that's all you do in this game, there's a lot of things going on underwater as the marine life in this game is alive and behaves more or less realistically. This can make it hard to catch specific species, but that's also what makes this game fun.

Brief thoughts: There's a small amount of blood shown whenever something nibbles at the fish you've hooked, but this is pretty ignorable.

Celeste

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Ages 6 and up
Genre:	Puzzle Platformer
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Celeste tells a story about a girl named Madeline and her quest to accept herself; the puzzle platformer gameplay just makes things a little more fun. But don't make the mistake of labeling this as yet another coming of age drama. Madeline struggles with severe (and often crippling) anxiety. In fact, she has a number of anxiety attacks during the game, and the player will need to guide her through these situations.

Brief thoughts: Celeste itself is a magical mountain that warps reality so that those who climb it are literally confronted with their own inner demons. Thus, things get rather spooky at points, but the catharsis is definitely worth it.

Chicken Invaders: The Next Wave Remastered

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Shoot 'em Up
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Although this sounds like a chicken-themed clone of Space Invaders, it's more than that. While most levels have you face off against Space Chickens, they rarely fly in a grid formation and there are plenty of levels that don't even feature them, making this a fun new twist on an old idea.

Brief thoughts: Even though you're shooting down flocks of Space Chickens with different types of ray guns, this is a very silly and family friendly game overall.

Chime

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Rhythm / Puzzle
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Chime is a puzzle game where you place various pieces on a grid in order to create "quads". This game's unique twist comes in what happens as you cover a level: where and how you place the pieces causes changes in the level's music and visual effects!

Brief thoughts: The only possible issue here is with the lyrics of one of the songs. The song in question is "Still Alive", which is the credits theme from Portal, and it's really only an issue if you're not familiar with the song's context.

Chime Sharp

ESRB Rating:	E - Everyone
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle
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The original Chime was a great little game with a devoted following. Unfortunately, this sequel feels unpolished and in some cases, even unfinished compared to the first game.

Brief thoughts: This puzzle game doesn't have any objectionable content to worry about.

Chip's Challenge

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle
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This game is completely free!
In order to join the Bit Busters and hang out with the girl of his dreams, "nerdy" Chip McCallahan must solve an elaborate series of brain teasing puzzles!

Brief thoughts: This game is quite family friendly - even though Chip can be hurt by various hazards, it's just a "bummer", and nothing more.

The Chronicles of Emerland: Solitaire

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Card Game
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In this game, you take on the role of a young apprentice to an elderly "card wizard". But before your training can really begin, his evil former student arrives and threatens to destroy the world. Yes, it's admittedly as corny as it sounds, but a corny story now and then is worth it if the game is fun, making this title a worthwhile palette cleanser among all of the serious and gritty games out there.

Brief thoughts: As this game is based around a fairy tale style story, it's full of magical creatures and magic. But at the same time, this game is more lighthearted than most Disney movies.

Chuzzle Deluxe

ESRB Rating:	E - Everyone
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Match 3
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This cute puzzle game is all about matching "Chuzzles" - the adorable little fuzzballs that make up the game pieces. Line them up in groups of three or more to change them back into magical energy and collect them in your flask, clearing the level and earning points!

Brief thoughts: There's nothing to worry about here - just a bunch of cute little fuzzballs popping when you match them.

Coloring Pixels

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Other
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This game is free, but paid features exist
Have you ever tried a color by number kit? That's the idea behind Coloring Pixels. Each pixel displays a number, and you simply color the pixel using the color that number represents. There are a huge number of images to paint, and more come out as DLC on a regular basis!

Brief thoughts: Since all you do here is color in images, the most offensive things you'll find here are puzzles depicting things from mythology or holidays like Halloween, and even then, everything is kept very family friendly.

The Counting Kingdom

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Edutainment
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Counting Kingdom is a mixture of edutainment and tower defense gameplay, and it works out fairly well. As the monsters advance, you use mathematical "spells" to make them disappear. Although it never really gets beyond basic math, this is an amusing way to practice crunching some numbers.

Brief thoughts: Although you're using "magical" potions and spells to defeat "evil monsters", this is just a framework to help children visualize math problems.

Dig Dog

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Arcade
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The title really says it all: this is a game about a dog who digs around in randomly generated worlds in the hopes of finding bones.

Brief thoughts: Similar to older arcade games like Pac-Man or Galaga, characters "pop" when defeated. Other than this, there is nothing to be concerned with in this game.

The Disney Afternoon Collection

ESRB Rating:	E10 - Everyone (Ages 10 and up)
My Rating:	Ages 6 and up
Genre:	Platformer / Shoot 'em Up
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This is a collection of six NES games that were based on popular cartoons from the Disney Afternoon programming block. In these games, you'll be helping Scrooge McDuck gather treasure, guiding the Rescue Rangers through two adventures, defending St. Canard as Darkwing Duck, and assisting Baloo as he makes his unusual deliveries aboard the SeaDuck.

Brief thoughts: There is some fairly mild violence, as defeated enemies simply get bounced off the screen.

Also, while Disney's penchant for magical mischief appears to some degree in nearly every title, it stays very tame and never gets more spooky than the cartoons the games were based on.

DLC Quest

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Ages 6 and up
Genre:	Platformer / Parody
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A lot of games these days seem to be sloppily made, rushed out the door, or so heavily loaded with paywalls and other aggravations that they don't really seem worth it. Enter DLC Quest, a game that takes every possible opportunity to mock and poke fun of every one of these modern frustrations. Of course, there's no actual DLC for this game; everything is "bought" with the coins you find hidden throughout the game's world.

Brief thoughts: There is a very small amount of violence. So little in fact, that warning readers about it seems silly.

Donut County

ESRB Rating:	E - Everyone
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle
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In this quiet puzzle game, you'll use BK's tablet to deliver donuts around the world, meet interesting people, and toss their garbage down the hole. The catch is, BK doesn't really understand the different between garbage and someone's belongings...

Brief thoughts: This game is fairly tame, with the main issue being that a raccoon called BK is dropping people and animals down a portable hole. Despite the long fall, nobody appears to be harmed by this.

Draw Puzzle

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle / Other
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In this coloring game, you're tasked with connecting dots of varying lengths instead of simply coloring in pixels with a specified color. This can make it a little challenging to earn all three crowns on a puzzle, as you can only make so many mistakes!

Brief thoughts: There's nothing to worry about here, as this is basically a video game version of a coloring book.

Drop the Number

ESRB Rating:	E - Everyone
My Rating:	Ages 6 and up
Genre:	Puzzle
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This game is free, but contains advertisements
Have you ever played 2048? This game takes that simple concept and mixes it with Tetris styled gameplay, creating a fun new spin on adding up numbered blocks!

Brief thoughts: The only issue with this game is the presence of advertisements and in-game purchases. The former can be permanently removed for a one-time payment of $4.

Dwarfs?!

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Ages 6 and up
Genre:	Real Time Strategy
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This game is completely free!
You rule the roost as the Overseer of a new Dwarf colony. Guide your dwarfs to riches, protect them from dangerous hazards, and fight vicious monsters as you aim for a place on the leaderboards!

Brief thoughts: The biggest concern about this game is that it features fantasy creatures (etc, Dwarfs and Goblins) fighting each other. Everything is shown in a very tame and family friendly way, however.

Dynomite! Deluxe

ESRB Rating:	E - Everyone
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle
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Time to crack some eggs! As stacks of colored eggs are lowered down the playfield, you need to toss more eggs at them in an attempt to hit groups of three or more. This knocks them off the stack, and earns you some points - but it could also make Mama angry!

Brief thoughts: The closest thing to objectionable content this game has to offer is that the eggs you're smashing sometimes hatch, but to be very blunt, I get the impression that's not meant to be taken seriously.

Escape Goat

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Ages 6 and up
Genre:	Platform Puzzler
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The Master of Chains has imprisoned a goat for the crime of witchcraft. But, while the goat has no actual powers, their desire for escape and puzzle solving skills leads them to partner up with a mouse that does, and the jail break is on!

Brief thoughts: Although the story claims the goat is involved with witchcraft, nothing too serious actually appears in this game.

Escape Goat 2

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My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle Platformer
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The sheep you freed in the previous game have found themselves trapped in another dungeon, so it's once again up to a magical goat and a courageous mouse to solve the riddles and free their friends!

Brief thoughts: There are references to magic and ghosts throughout the game, with a monster appearing in the final levels. While this sound a little spooky, everything is still fairly tame and isn't likely to be much of a problem.

Everyday Genius: Squarelogic

ESRB Rating:	NR - Not Rated
My Rating:	Everyone
Genre:	Puzzle
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This is what happens when you mix the basic rules of Sudoku with math problems. Whether that's a good thing or not depends greatly on the player -- this is a nice way to relax and kill time, but it's still more or less a niche title.

Brief thoughts: This game doesn't have any offensive content - it's just a collection of increasingly difficult math-based puzzles.