A Parent’s Guide to Multiplayer Games

Multiplayer gets a bad reputation that’s partly earned and partly not, and the distinction matters because at its best multiplayer is actually where kids learn to cooperate and communicate and handle disappointment and be part of something bigger than themselves, and those are genuinely not small things. The difference between a multiplayer game that’s good for your child and one that isn’t usually comes down to one thing: whether kids were the actual intended audience or an afterthought.