Family Games Demo

Kicking back and relaxing with your family after a nice dinner is always a treat, especially if you enjoy filling the time with classic games like Hangman and Battleships. However, since technology now has a very important role in everyone’s life, it might be better if you managed to incorporate the computers into these activities somehow.

Family Games is about as straightforward as possible when it comes to its purpose and it makes that clear right in the name. Hence, this is a collection of casual games usually enjoyed by families during their time together, including Battleships, Tic-Tac-Toe and Battleships. They are all designed to be as simple to play as possible, although some concessions had to be made.

To begin with, you need to know that it is not necessary to play the game with someone else, given the fact that a CPU is also available to provide you with a challenge when no one else is around. However, the AI is rather simple and it cannot actually get you in any serious trouble, unless you decide to crank up the difficulty level. Obviously, only some of the games can be played against a computer.

In order to make it accessible to basically everyone, the developers have designed the interface with ease-of-use in mind. Thus, each button is clear and suggestive, and you only need to perform a few simple clicks in order to start the desired game. Naturally, things may get a bit more difficult when it comes to customizing the rounds, but only at first, until everyone gets the hang of it.

On the same subject, the graphics are mostly hand-drawn and they actually look like someone used a pen and a piece of paper to represent the various games. However, the drawings are clear and there is no way you can get confused about what everything means. The only slight downside is the fact that what the game calls ‘pop culture’ is very far from the term, because the movies and the music bands mentioned in the Hangman mini-game are very difficult to guess.

Whether you want to enjoy it alone or with your family, Family Games is a nice collection that should satisfy everyone’s need for entertainment. It is simple enough for anyone to figure out how to operate it with ease.