Kids Games — Play Free Online

About kids games

These games are picked for younger players: simple controls, forgiving failure, bright art and nothing that needs explaining afterwards. Most are one-button or drag-and-drop, and very few depend on reading speed, so a child who is still learning to read can usually get going without help.

They work best on a tablet, where the oversized touch targets were designed to be tapped rather than clicked. Worth knowing as a parent: these games are free because they carry advertising, so sitting in for the first couple of minutes of anything new is a sensible habit. For something with a learning angle, number games, drawing and animal games are the strongest corners of the collection.

Playnix lists 614 kids games, ordered best-first rather than alphabetically, so the strongest of them are on the first screen. The themes that come up most often are for kids, for girls and dress up. Around 22% are built portrait-first and play comfortably one-handed on a phone; the rest are landscape and are easier with a keyboard or a rotated screen. Nothing here needs an account, a download or a plugin.