• Mass Effect
• Tomb Raider
• Arc Survival Evolved
• Syberia

Main character:

Lost in random Beyond good and evil Night in the woods Infamous first light A hat in time Spiritfarer Celeste

Good overall:

Final Fantasy X Bioshock Infinite ( saw your age update lol) Ratchet and Clank rift apart

That’s what I can think of from the top of my head. I’ll see if I can come up with some more.

From the link you posted I highly recommend “Kena: Bridge of Spirits”. Gorgeous game with a solid story and fun gameplay. Great job for a small studios first game.

Ignore the age inappropriate ones obviously

Oxenfree!

Carto

If you're okay with some very black comedy (all spoken-aloud, nothing shown) and the occasional blood splatter when you get shot, the Portal games are good. The villains are robotic turrets with machine-guns that are defeated simply by tipping them over - so while they're acting in very violent and lethal ways, the player is just teleporting around and nudging them over to fall down onto their side. But I remember my kid being very offended when GlaDOS called the player character fat, and later reveals she mass-murdered a building full of scientists using nerve-gas.

Kena: Bridge of Spirits and Horizon Zero Dawn would be my recommendations.

I just finished playing Lost in Random. The graphics are a bit dark, but the story and action is good. No blood or gore or anything though.

It was surprisingly good and, if you've got a Xbox, it's on Game Pass for free.

If you have a switch Pikmin 4 lets you make your own little character person. Its quite fun. There are quite a few Digimon games too. Other than that the ones that stick out in my mind aren't really age appropriate. There was a Drakenguarde that had a woman as the main character. I heard they're making a new Princess Peach game tho.

Sable!!! Such a fun and pretty game, the soundtrack is also amazing (if ya know Japanese Breakfast she did it)

I've not played these yet but they look good for a 5 year old

• Onirism
• Poi
• Monument Valley
• Aer
• Carto