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My son (6) got excited about it when he saw me play. He played creative for a bit, then i got fed up watching him so set up my laptop with a new steam account, bought a second copy and now we play freeplay multiplayer.

1st game he made all the sciences. I did oil. I also expanded things he had already built by copying them. I did the make everything factory and his armour.

This game he even did basic oil on his own.

His builds are a marvel to behold. Belts go EVERYWHERE the bus is a mild inconvenience for him, things are built wherever. Explaining ratios starts with actually explaining ratios rather than their role in factorio...

Then he threw grenades at me and killed me and i sulked .

Anyone else got any experience playing with kids?

P.s. his first nuclear plant was fantastic. I told him it needed a lot of water so he ran a huge pipe half way across the base and plugged it straight into the reactor.

pps - screens in a post below.

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My 4 year old started playing and he loves it, I didn't expect him liking it so much so soon. He now wants to play every day. I started a peaceful mode game for him and joined in multiplayer. He was just running around to learn the controls and explore, mining trees in the start, but eventually, he started to copy basic smelting setups and now he plays with construction robots and copy pastes solar arays.

I'm actually quite suprised how well the game scales as the technology goes on. Small/unexperienced kids can do super simple things like running around/mining random stuff and exploring, and then, they can step by step do more and more sophisticated things and explore the game as they age and/or get more experienced and the the technologies unlock.

Next game, we will play without peaceful mode.