Most games out there include some sort of violence or content inappropriate for children or teens. However, research reveals that games, when carefully selected, can enhance planning, organizational, and emotional skills. What’s more, online cooperative games are perfect for polishing their language and social competency and even help young gamers deal with stress.

That’s why today we have created a list of games that are specially designed for teens and the smallest members of families. Let’s prove that gaming can be entertaining, educational, and safe!

The Best Video Games for Teens

Below you’ll find that both kids and adults can enjoy games without the need to show blood, violence, or unsuitable content. Just simple games that offer unforgettable moments, facilitate education process, and a few that give inspiration in a free format. 

Minecraft

• Release Date: November 18, 2011
• Developer: Mojang
• Publisher: Mojang
• Platforms: PC, PlayStation 4, macOS, Linux, Nintendo Switch
• Metascore: 93

Minecraft is very likely one of the most famous games of all time, and one of the best video games, no matter if it looks childish. Minecraft has become so famous and popular among kids, young adults, and not so young that it has sold over 300 million copies around the globe!

In a few words, Minecraft is a sandbox video game that takes place in a procedurally generated 3D world featuring endless terrain where you must collect raw material to craft tools and build structures, earthworks, and machines. This world features different biomes, such as mountains, plains, forests, caves, and water bodies.

Minecraft does not have the main goal, allowing you to do everything you want and explore freely. However, there are some achievements you can complete called “trophies.”

When you start a new world, you must select one of the five modes and one of the four difficulties. As you go through the world, you will find several passive mobs that can be hunted for food or materials. On the contrary, the night is full of aggressive mobs, such as zombies and skeletons, that can hurt you.

In the survival mode, you gather natural resources to craft blocks and items and build a shelter to protect yourself from monsters. You have a health bar and a hunger bar you must keep in good condition. 

In creative mode, you have access to all resources and items in the game. You can do whatever you want, even fly freely around the game world. In the adventure mode, players will experience adventures and obtain special items or achieve specific goals. 

Minecraft also features a multiplayer mode which allows you to play online, so you can enjoy it with friends online and interact in a single world. One of the great games for kids and younger players! 

Minecraft Xbox Live CD Key is available on RoyalCDKeys. 

Key Features: 

• A hypothetical endless world full of opportunities and landscapes to discover.
• An interesting system that involves gathering resources to survive.
• A voxel-based construction system to build your house, farm, furniture, and everything you want. 

FIFA 22

• Release Date: November 18, 2011
• Developer: EA Vancouver | EA Romania
• Publisher: EA Sports
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Stadia, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Metascore: 73

Who hasn’t ever played a FIFA game even once? Who hasn’t enjoyed the classic FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 or FIFA 10? But, for the new generation of players, FIFA 22 is the right choice that cannot be missing from this list. If you like soccer, this is the game for you!

FIFA 22 features some improvements regarding the previous installments of the franchise, such as the “HyperMotion Technology,” which captures football matches in motion capture suits. Thanks to this, the movements are more realistic, empowering the gameplay.

FIFA 22 also features a single-player career mode, where you can play as a manager or player throughout a 15-year career. This mode also allows you to create your club with customized kits and a home stadium. 

In The Ultimate Team mode, you will create your team and compete against another team online to earn cards – FUT Heroes – to add them to your team. These Heroes cards will provide you with special ratings and attributes. 

FIFA 22 brings back VOLTA Football, where two teams of five players face each other on a small pitch. New mechanics in VOLTA include special abilities that boost the player’s avatar. The three signature abilities are Power Strike, Aggressive Attacks, and Pure Pace. 

FIFA 22 is a game console for the whole family, either older teens, fathers, or sons. All these gamers will spend hours and hours enjoying this magnificent soccer game!

FIFA 22 Steam CD Key is available on RoyalCDKeys. 

Key Features: 

• Incredible improvements over the previous games of the franchise. 
• A career mode in which you can either take the role of a player or a manager. 
• An improved VOLTA with special abilities for players. 

Need for Speed: Heat

• Release Date: November 8, 2019
• Developer: Ghost Games
• Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
• Metascore: 74

Talking about racing PC games, Need for Speed is a mandatory one. This franchise is probably the most famous in this genre. Ok, except for Mario Kart. Regarding the NFS saga, Need for Speed: Heat is the twenty-fourth installment of the series.

Heat takes place in an open-world environment called Palm City, a reimagined city of Miami and surrounding areas. The world features several types of landscapes, such as mountains and open fields. Despite not having a day-night cycle, in Heat, you can switch between day and night, featuring different types of races. 

During the day, you can be part of sanctioned race events, which reward you with cash to upgrade your cars. During the night, playing races involves participating in illicit street races. Night races will reward you with REP and attract the attention of the police. This is the moment when pursuits begin. If the police catch you, you can lose your earned REP.

Need for Speed: Heat also features a storyline in which you interact with the police department. You will be tasked with small missions, such as smashing neon flamingos or finding graffiti in the streets. In general, you will have to complete some activities around the city to get money. 

Heat features 127 cars from 33 manufacturers, including Aston Martin, Ferrari, Audi, Lamborghini, and MacLaren. Unlike Payback, the previous chapter of the franchise, upgrades are unlocked by winning races and earning REP.

Need for Speed: Heat is a perfect game for children and parents who love speed and driving in urban scenarios. One of the most awesome titles on this list!

Need for Speed: Heat Origin CD Key is available on RoyalCDKeys. 

Key Features: 

• A huge open world featuring the fictional settlement of Palm City.
• Day and night races with unique challenges and rewards. 
• Over 100 hundred cars that can be improved and customized.

Star Wars: Battlefront II

• Release Date: November 17, 2017
• Developer: DICE
• Publisher: Electronic Arts
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, PlayStation 4, Xbox One
• Metascore: 78

Star Wars is one of the most relevant franchises in the entertainment industry, and the video game industry is no exception. Star Wars features dozens of games since the first consoles on the market. This is the main reason why either a teen or an adult may love this saga in the same way.  

Star Wars: Battlefront II is an action shooter game and the fourth installment of the Battlefront series. The game features both single-player and multiplayer modes, the main campaign, and heroes vs. villain battles. You can also be part of ground battles taking the role of soldiers or piloting starfighters in space battles. 

In any conflict, you can select to play as both the good guys – the Galactic Republic, the Rebel Alliance, and the Resistance, or the bad guys – the Confederacy of Independent Systems, the Galactic Empire, and the First Order. 

Each of these factions has four classes – Assault, Heavy, Officer, and Specialist, and three types of starfighter classes – Fighter, Bomber, and Interceptor. Some reinforcement classes can be unlocked by earning battle points you get by defeating enemies or completing specific quests. All classes can be leveled up except for the Artillery – a reinforcement class. You can also use Star Cards to increase the character's stats, such as damage output and health regeneration. 

Battles take place on a series of different maps. Each of them is based on one location of the story of the franchise, such as Jakku, Kamino, Mos Eisley, Hoth, Endor, Takodana, and much more.

The single-player campaign takes place between the Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens. In this campaign, you take the role of Iden Versio, an Imperial commander who defects to the New Republic. No doubt, your kid will love this game as they’ll feel like they are in the middle of a galactic battle. 

Star Wars: Battlefront II Xbox Live CD Key is available on RoyalCDKeys. 

Key Features: 

• A unique storyline that takes place between the Return of the Jedi and The Force Awakens.
• Two factions, the light, and the dark side, and four main classes for soldiers. 
• Over ten planets of the classic trilogy where the action takes place.

Cuphead

• Release Date: September 29, 2017
• Developer: Studio MDHR
• Publisher: Studio MDHR
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Xbox One, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4
• Metascore: 88

Cuphead is very likely, together with other games like Hollow Knight, one of the best indies of recent times, a game that is a total pleasure to watch. The idea of this title was born from the mind of two brothers who loved the cartoons of the first decades of the past century. The result: a game full of life, very funny animations, and, we have to say it, very difficult to end. 

Cuphead is a strange game. It does not feature levels like other games, just boss fights and one or another run-and-gun level. The main plot of the game is to recover the “soul contracts” that some creatures have signed with the devil to recover your soul.

You control Cuphead or Mugman, two brothers who must defeat these bosses by shooting special attacks, such as the Peashooter, the Spread, and the Chaser. Each boss presents several phases, each more difficult than the last. Besides, the enemy’s attack differs in any phase, totally changing their range or number of shots. 

Bosses are spread to the four worlds. To advance through these worlds, you must recover the soul contracts and open the way to the next map. Besides, boss fights can take place on land or in the air, so you may need an airplane to hit the bosses. This type of battle requires a lot of practice and good reactions. 

Cuphead Steam CD Key is available on RoyalCDKeys. 

Key Features: 

• Incredible hand-made and cartoon-like visuals. 
• Dozens of boss fights at an increasingly difficult level. 
• Three difficulty options, so kids and adults can play and enjoy it. 

NBA 2K22 

• Release Date: October 19, 2021
• Developer: Visual Concepts
• Publisher: 2K Sports
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Apple Arcade
• Metascore: 76

Girls and boys love sports equally. Tthere is not the slightest doubt. Ok, boys indeed love more sports like basketball, but many girls rock in these types of video games. 

Despite not having stories or lore, sports games provide hours of fun due to their endless gameplay. Besides, these include strategy and many of them are immersive.

NBA 2k22 is a basketball simulation game very realistic with dozens of possibilities and options. As its name suggests, this is based on the National Basketball Association.

NBA 2k22 introduces several improvements over previous versions, including more and better animations, improved shots, blocks, and more realistic physics. An advantage of this game over previous ones is more controlled movements. A the same time, scoring and timing will be much more difficult for the same reason. 

NBA 2k22 is a game for all ages. Moreover, it can awaken the passion for this loved sport. Watching sports is not the same as playing them, so what are you waiting for, join the party!

NBA 2K22 Steam CD Key is available on RoyalCDKeys. 

Key Features: 

• Improved physics over the previous games of the franchise.
• Movements, shots, and dribbling that provide a more realistic immersive experience.
• A huge base set with some of the best ballers in each team's story. 

Fortnite

• Release Date: July 25, 2017
• Developer: Epic Games
• Publisher: Epic Games
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, iOS, Android
• Metascore: 83

Fortnite is an online shooter video game, and probably the most famous battle royale of recent times. Fortnite has over 400 million subscribers, which is a lot compared to its direct competitors. In Fortnite, you are released on an island together with other 99 players. At this point, the fight begins.

The goal in Fortnite is to be the last man standing. To do this, you must grab weapons that are scattered by the map or inside chests. Then, wander for the map while you eliminate all the other players you find. To protect yourself, you can build different structures and cross the map on foot or drive a car. Furthermore, Fortnite features dozens of crossovers, avatars, and skins for your characters, which is a major interesting aspect.

Rocket League

• Release Date: July 7, 2015

• Developer: Psyonix
• Publisher: Psyonix | Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment | 505 Games
• Platforms: Microsoft Windows, macOS, Linux, SteamOS, PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch
• Metascore: 85

Rocket League is a game that combines soccer and vehicles, achieving a cool game where everything can happen. The goal, as in every football game, is to score as many goals as possible and beat your opponent. You can play against the computer or another person or create your team with a friend. Cars have a boost that can be used to hit the ball harder. They can also fly for one or two seconds, so you can reach the ball in the air. Rocket League is a game without characters but with a funny and simple controller system.