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The best PS4 and PS5 games for kids & families

Explore a rundown of some of the best family-friendly titles playable now on PS4 and PS5. Best of all, the majority support multiple players on one console.

Family friendly sports and racing games

Be a good sport

Build your ultimate fantasy team, race high-performance cars or pull-off gravity-defying skateboard tricks.

EA SPORTS™ FC 26

Play your way in EA SPORTS FC 26, featuring an overhauled gameplay experience powered by feedback from the FC Community. 

  • Take on opponents across a range of modes, including Clubs and Player Career, and put a dream squad to the test in the game’s famous Football Ultimate Team.
  • Play with one of two presets – Authentic offers a true-to-life football experience, whereas Competitive is all about enhanced responsiveness and perfect for Football Ultimate Team and Clubs play.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-22 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4

Rounding out the collection from the release of Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 1 + 2, these remakes are faithfully reimagined in 4K and with modern modifications like new animations and an expanded Create-A-Park feature. 

  • These fully rebuilt versions of Pro Skater 3 and Pro Skater 4 include all original game modes, head-to-head local multiplayer and competitive online options.
  • All original maps are included, as well as a range of new levels, and players are able to skate as some of the legends of the day and fresh faces like Rayssa Leal, Margielyn Didal and Yuto Horigome.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 12 year olds and over

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Tony Hawk's Pro Skater 3 + 4 releases for PlayStation 4 and PlayStation 5 on July 11, 2025. 

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Sonic Racing: CrossWorlds

Drift between dimensions in this all-new arcade racer which sees Sonic, Shadow, Knuckles and 20 more series characters (with even more to unlock) speeding across land, sea, air and space.

  • Warp through Travel Rings to take the competition to new dimensions full of surprises around every turn.
  • Race solo or as part of a team, either offline or online, and construct the ultimate vehicle to match your style, loaded with gadgets and ready for powering up.  

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-12 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Gran Turismo 7

The Real Driving Simulator has something for everyone, whether you’re a committed and competitive racer or a casual driver looking for easy-going thrills.

  • Pick from several game modes, including GT Campaign, Simulation and Driving School. 
  • Collect over 420 cars and race them in solo play, local two-player competition, or against online rivals.
  • Start your journey in My First GT, the free-to-play, beginner-friendly introduction to the series, and then take that progress to the full game.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-20 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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LEGO® games

Big adventures with style

Enjoy cinematic thrills, open-world racing and survival adventures, recreated in LEGO's inimitable style.

LEGO® 2K Drive

Race over streets, seas and sand in dream rides made entirely from LEGO bricks in this colorful open world of quirky characters and bizarre challenges.

  • Build your own vehicles – for road, water and offroad – in the Garage, using easy-to-follow tutorials or by freestyling your brick creation however your imagination sees fit.
  • Explore and race solo, in local multiplayer or online with cross-platform play that supports up to five other minifigure friends.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2-6 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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LEGO®  Fortnite

This free-to-play game, featuring Fortnite-themed LEGO minifigures, allows you to play in two very different ways.

  • Collect materials in the daytime to build a home base and survive against nighttime challenges – or play purely creatively with no threats.
  • Team up with friends to explore hidden areas in pursuit of rare resources and recruit non-player villagers to help you.

  • 1 player offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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LEGO® Party!

Challenge friends and family in this over-the-top party experience featuring a multitude of minigames and stacks of minifigures to unlock.

  • Up to four players can compete locally or online, with cross-platform play supported, and minifigures can be customized with over one billion combinations available.
  • Play to win as many Golden Bricks as possible in minigames like Dance Off and Rocketball – but watch out for monsters, traps and flying roast turkeys.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-4 players online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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LEGO® Horizon Adventures

Join machine hunter Aloy as she leads a colourful crew of heroes through a lush wilderness on a quest to save the world and learn the secrets of her past.

  • Explore the much-loved world of Horizon and come face-to-face with the game’s awe-inspiring machines – all faithfully recreated in LEGO bricks. 
  • Dive into boundless adventure, customize to your heart’s content and take on action-packed battles solo or with friends.

  • 1-2 players offline, 2 players online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Family friendly action adventure games

Magic, mayhem and mischief

Take on grand adventures into lands unknown, discover colorful characters and foil evil villains, alone or with friends.

Once Upon a Katamari

Let the good times roll in this all-new Katamari adventure, with a story that reaches through time to visit the Jurassic, the Ice Age and many other exciting eras.

  • Play as the Prince or one of his 68 cousins, each with lots of customization options, as you enjoy a fresh rolling experience with new features including a magnet to attract nearby objects.
  • Compete in the new online mode, KatamariBall, taking on cousins from around the world in up-to-four-player matches – or hone your skills solo against CPU opponents.

  • 1 player offline, 2-4 players online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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ASTRO BOT

With his PS5-styled mothership wrecked, ASTRO and the bot crew find themselves scattered all over the galaxies. Time to ride your trusty Dual Speeder across more than 50 planets full of fun, danger and surprises.

  • Explore a wealth of beautiful planets in search of your crew, using new powers to take down quirky bosses and access secret locations.
  • Celebrate 30 years of PlayStation history with themed worlds and bots, and feel ASTRO's every action through the DualSense wireless controller's haptic feedback.

  • 1 player offline

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Marvel Cosmic Invasion

This dynamic side-scrolling beat ‘em up from DOTEMU (Absolum, Streets of Rage 4) and Tribute Games (TMNT: Shredder's Revenge) pits a number of famous Marvel superheroes against Annihilus – the living death that walks.

  • The likes of Wolverine, Spider-Man, Storm, Black Panther and She-Hulk are presented in beautiful pixel art, and intuitive gameplay ensures this an experience anyone can enjoy.
  • Switch between playable characters using the Cosmic Swap tag-team system, instantly bringing a new hero into the action. Mix and match pairings to find amazing combos and special attacks.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-4 online

  • Suitable for 12 year olds and over

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Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart

Jump between dimensions and realities in this action-packed 3D platformer starring the spacefaring Lombax Ratchet, his robotic pal Clank and new playable character Rivet.

  • Use an outrageous arsenal of quirky weapons to bring a halt to an evil robotic emperor’s nefarious plans.
  • Zip over cityscapes, boost into combat and slip through rifts between dimensions using new physics-defying gadgets.

  • 1 player offline

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Creative games for kids

If you can imagine it, you can play it

Build, shape, collaborate and share in original game worlds where getting creative is the whole point.

Disney Dreamlight Valley

This cozy title drops you into the Dreamlight Valley that has been twisted by Night Thorns in a strange event: The Forgetting. Heroes and ne'er do wells alike have lost their memories, and by building anew, you'll save this valley and make it a home. 

  • Gardening, fishing, foraging, cooking – the Valley takes players from beaches to meadows, to glades to mountains, with a rich range of activities to do every day. 
  • Characters from all eras of animation offer stories that strengthen the community once their quests are completed. Snap selfies with Stitch, build a birdhouse for Mickey and Minnie, and nerd out in Jack Skellington's laboratory. 

  • 1 player offline, 2-4 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Minecraft

Build a world where the only limit is your own imagination, playing purely creatively or choose to survive against many dangers.

  • Explore mysterious lands unique to your own experience, collecting resources to protect yourself from monsters.
  • Play with friends online to share your adventures, or to build collaborative creations on a grand scale.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Chicory: A Colorful Tale

Paint a black-and-white world back into color in this charming adventure that uses gentle puzzles and exploration to move its story onward.

  • Paint to open new areas and solve puzzles using a magical brush that turns the world around you into a colorful canvas.
  • A second player can control a brush of their own, allowing for collaborative painting as the story unfolds. 

  • 1-2 players offline

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Dreams

Made by the creators of LittleBigPlanet and Tearaway, Dreams is a remarkable digital playground of user-created experiences.

  • Create your own games using intuitive tools or enjoy many existing experiences, including the wooden train playset puzzler Tren, created by an imaginative community.
  • Go beyond games to craft animations, sculptures, movies, music and more – and then share your work online.

  • 1-4 players offline

  • Suitable for 12 year olds and over

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Family friendly party games

Get together for good times

Gather friends and family around the PlayStation for chaotic cook-offs, reimagined classics and to cut shapes to your favorite songs.

Party Animals

In the physics-based brawler Party Animals, let chaos loose in cute yet challenging competitions to be the last critter standing.

  • Slap, leap and stumble to the win in an enviable range of modes in local and online multiplayer, like skirmishes and objective-based opportunities, playing as one of your favorite floppy animals. 
  • Play the new Crisis mode, set on a spaceship where each player completes tasks and then votes on who they believe is the murderous stowaway.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-8 online

  • Suitable for 7 year olds and over

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Overcooked! All You Can Eat

Dig into as much Overcooked as you like in this madcap cooking game that contains all levels from the first title, its sequel and DLC packs.

  • Work together to fulfil kitchen orders in environments where fires will break out, bits of your kitchen will come apart, and sometimes the floor will float away.
  • Assist mode allows players to slow timers and skip levels, to make sure fun never gives way to frustration.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-4 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Monopoly Madness

Inspired by but quite unlike the classic boardgame, Monopoly Madness pits players against each other in an all-new way.

  • Roam the streets of Monopoly Town freely, collecting money, water and electricity, and gaining power-ups from the Community Chests.
  • Pick from 20 playable characters and explore four unique environments, each with their own levels and layouts.

  • 1-4 players offline, 2-6 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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Just Dance 2026 Edition

Get your friends and family together to let loose on Just Dance, updated for 2026 with new tracks and modes to get everyone moving.

  • Dance to songs by Lady Gaga, Smash Mouth, Ed Sheeran, Sabrina Carpenter, Dua Lipa, Madonna and many more popular artists. There's even a Bluey medley for fans of the animated pups.
  • The 2026 edition introduces two new modes: the wacky and experimental Co-op Party mode, and the hands-free Camera Controller mode. Workout and Challenge modes return, as does local multiplayer supporting up to six dancers.

  • 1-6 offline players, 2-6 online

  • Suitable for 3 year olds and over

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The PlayStation Family™ app

Stay informed about and involved in your kids’ gameplay by managing playtime, spending, messaging and more with the free PlayStation Family app. 

The PlayStation Family™ app

Stay informed about and involved in your child's gameplay by managing playtime, spending, messaging and more with the free PlayStation Family app. 

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