Either Super Mario Party or Super Mario Maker 2 - both have varying degrees of multiplayer content, and somewhat decent replayability.

Super Mario Party looks interesting, but also unusual from what games im used to. But maybe its fun, we got 4 controllers in total at this time.

Kirby Star Allies, Yoshi's Crafted World, and New Super Mario Bros U Deluxe are all good and simple 2D platformers. Minecraft is an obvious get. Super Mario 3D World + Bowser's Fury is an excellent 3D Co-op platformer, though the Bowser's Fury portion might be a bit scary for 5 year olds, you can just play 3D World.

It's joy-con only btw, that's the main drawback. You have to get more joy-cons for 4 players. It's pretty awful. But if you have more joycons its perfect

I don't recommend a Switch OLED for young kids

It'll end up smashed before the joycon drift

Thanks for the suggestions! 👍

I've heard complaints about Minecraft not running well on the Switch that's why I was concerned about getting it. Is this something to worry about? Also, im guessing 2 players is possible in Minecraft?

Hehe, I have considered that. The Nintendo Switch will always be out of reach and only used in docking mode.

They are and have always been very careful with electronic devices of all kinds. Ive broken more than they have. 😉😆

I have 2 red and 2 blue Joy-cons I believe. The originals that came with the Switch.

Will I need 8 of them for 4 players? Or is 4 enough to play all of these minigames?

You're fine then. Mine only had one of each so yeah

Mine did aswell but figured out Id buy an extra pair. So we're set with 4 joy-cons then.

Nice one

Does any of these games require membership to play?

If you want access to the online play, then yeah, but otherwise not at all.

But Mario maker for girls age 5 is probably a bit too much complexity

Alright. Another question: For games like Animal crossing can you play it split-screen on the same console or does it require a second Nintendo Switch?

I thought so as well. 😉

100% recommend Yoshi's Crafted World would be a hit and it has 2player mode. It also has a mellow mode that helps the player if they need it. Get it!
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Idk, i think it's pretty good for kids their age. They can express creativity without destroying the house!

You can play animal crossing multiplayer on one screen, but i've tried it, and you're better off playing single player because the multiplayer just doesn't work.

Yes, two player splitscreen is possible in Minecraft. And while the performance on switch is the greatest (I've personally switched to playing Minecraft on Xbox), for young kids playing the game, it's perfectly fine for casual play.

Super! Any way I can find out if Animal Crossing is split screen aswell or if it would require a second Switch to play two players?

Animal crossing is single player. And I think you can only have one island per game.

Will check it out for sure! Didnt love the music in the trailer. 😆

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While you can 'technically' play Animal Crossing with two players on one screen, it's not the greatest. The game does not lend itself well to two players on playing on one screen. I would recommend either getting a second Switch to play that, or letting them take turns playing. You can have multiple players on one "island", so taking turns actually could work well, if your kids are okay with that, that is.

Damn. Thanks for the heads up. 👍

Technically two players? But it would require a second Switch?

Taking turns could work.

Thanks for the advice, even though it may not be the game for them as much but for me perhaps. 😉 👍

I thought the OLED doesn't have drifts.

It has the exact same joycons

it'll grow on you haha, the game is cute af

That's stupid

I'd recommend Mario Party Superstars and NOT Super Mario Party. Super Mario party is one of the worst Mario party games I've ever played

Dang, they look similar, how come this is better than the regular Party?

You can technically do two players on one switch, but it isn't split screen, and it's far from ideal. I would personally either have them take turns, or get a second switch. Just my recommendation though, it might work to have them both play at once. I just don't think that method of play is necessarily great.

The maps are a bit more engaging, the mini games on super Mario party are awesome. But the actual maps you play on are very simple and quite boring

Doom Vr ;)

That's the fun part, you don't have to. Your kids are playing the game, not you.

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Oh, trust me I will be hearing it as well. 😆

Does the Nintendo Switch have VR??

Has anyone suggested Mario Kart?

I bought it at the same time I bought the Nintendo switch. It's a must-have. 😉

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The game that came with my Nintendo switch was animal crossing.

Have you checked out the Nintendo switch store? I've got some pretty good games from there and it's not to bad on price.

Most Mario franchise games are 2 player and each player plays a equal role in these games. This was something I ran into back when I used to play Super Mario Galaxy 1 & 2 for the Wii. My brother would want to play and he would only have a small role compared to me, which my family didn't like. But as a reference, it should say on the back of the physical cover if it's 2 players or not. For the Nintendo Eshop, which is Nintendo's "digital game/app store" it should say whenever it's 2 player or not in its description. Just scroll down the game's main page until you find it.

Good luck :)

I was gonna go for Animal Crossing but since there's only 1 player per console and no split-screen support im not sure anymore.

It's a Christmas gift so we haven't opened it except by adding a screen protector, connecting the extra joy-cons, updating it and downloading Mario Kart, and of course, playing it for a couple of hours. 😉

The games im interested in are mainly games where two people can play in split-screen mode as they are almost always gonna play together.

The new OLED doesn't include the games yet sadly only the older version does.

There is a 30 or so USD dollar controller that eliminates drift. I think it's called the King Kong Pro 2. You might want to look more of it up on review sites or even YouTube as they will have a far better explanation than I can provide. Going over the details is a bit too complicated, especially as there's a whole lot to go over.

Alright, I will do that. They have yet to open it at Christmas. 😉

Would you say the subscription is worth it? Are the games that come with the sub. mode good?

Yeah animal crossing is awesome but the one player and kind of non existent split-screen is 😒🙄

It comes with special emulates (Nintendo official) which allows for playing classic NES and SNES games, you gain access to online multiplayer, game trials which are games that Nintendo gives out for a limited time period (The game is playable for a certain amount of time, which comes with the full version. It lets you try out a game for a little while and then if it's good, you can buh it and have the save progress transfer to the paid copy.) and even a app that let's you do stuff like access in-game services, do voice chat and more, as well as park of a recent update to the service, you get a currency called platinum points, which are earned by doing certain "missions" such as playing a featured title, or playing any Switch Online supported game. They can then be spent on icon elements which allow you to make custom icons, or "profile pictures" for your user. There's also a more expensive version of the subscription service called "Nintendo Switch Online + Expansion pack" which where I live, it's twice the price of the base subscription., but it includes two more emulators, which are for N64 and Sega Genesisas well as free DLC for certain games from Mario Kart, and Animal Crossing. The base subscription can be bought in subscription intervals of 1 month, 3 months, and 1 year, and the Expansion pack can be bought in 1 year subscription intervals. I will tell you that if you do have a PS4/5 or Xbox One/Series X/S, the subscription prices for the Switch is cheaper than the two other consoles, in terms of the separate intervals. In comparison, where I live, it's $24.99 for one year of the base subscription, $49.99 for the Expansion pack, compared to $69.99 for one year of PlayStation Plus Essential (the lowest, cheaper tier of Playstation's "PlayStation PLUS", their subscription, and $59.99 for six months for Xbox Live Gold, which is Xbox's version of PlayStation Plus and Switch Online (including the optional Expansion Pack). That doubles to 119.99 for 12 months.) Oh and by the way, these emulators do include the option for 2 player play. (Well, most of them anyways, haven't tried myself since I own a Switch Lite, which is the cheapest version but is specifically designed for single player, handheld use) This would be really great value since they include about 25-30 games per emulator and more to come along. Overall I think it's good to at least consider since they would provide hours upon hours of play for a really good price per year There's a really broad variety of genres that come with them plus the other perks I mentioned. Best of yet, the Nintendo Switch Online subscription comes with a special app on the switch itself, which doesn't require a active subscription to access, for the most part. This can be used to access some perks that I mentioned, such as custom icon creation, and managing your suoscription.

Just a piece of advice that I think you should know it: There's an app on most phones called "Nintendo Switch Parental Controls" elwhich provides more controls than the Switch initially comes with, such as being able to set timers or even how long they get to play on a certain day of the week, see what they have played through out the week, and even what happens when time is up (Two options, either a simple notification which appears on the top left of the screen or to interrupt and suspend gameplay entirely, which the latter is usually for last resort cases where they will not get off on their own) I'll provide a link to the video on YouTube that explains this into more detail

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=03bAayBtcb0

Oh. I almost forgot, yes, the games are really good.

Wow, Thank you. 😉👍 I will for sure check it out.

I find it difficult to find and purchase games that I think they may or may not like so testing the game out before purchase is definitely a plus.

Any Pokémon game. They. Are. Amazing

Read some articles about them and apparently from his review the only good onea are the most recent ones. But not sure if my 5-year-olds will enjoy the game or if it's gonna be to advance.

No, that was a joke, but man, that would be great!

Indeed.

Bought a Nintendo Switch OLED, and the games they enjoyed the most as coop play.

#1 Kirby and the forgotten land. (Perfect game and they love playing it, but they shared on playing Kirby, the pink character)

#2 Super Mario 3D world. (Fun to play and they enjoy the game especially when we all play 4 coops)

#3 Luigi's Mansion 3. (They are very interested in this game, BUT it is more tricky to play especially with the button combos you have to do.) A bit frustrated during the 1 -2 hour play at singleplayer.

#4 Fall Guys. (They do like it, but got tired quickly as they barely ever got through the labyrinths/goals.)

#5 Mario Kart. (They do enjoy the game, but it's not a go-to game when they wanna play. Probably has the best multiplayer out of all the games as it's the only one so far that uses a split screen.)

#6 Bowsers Fury. (Caught their interest for a while.)

#7 Overcooked all-you-can-eat. (Chaos and almost impossible with two 5-year-olds sabotaging you and themselves.)

#8 Mine Craft. (Tried but not yet explored. No coop options.)

Other game suggestions?