Need advice: FPS for a 7 year old

When I was young I only had the SNES so I just spent hours and hours on Mario, Contra, Tank, Soccer and Popeye... I didnt even knew what FPS mean... Kids those days grow so fast :/

When I have a child, I will allow him to play any age ratings 3 years before, I guess that is a fair deal. Perhaps some exceptions, but I definitely would not let a 7 years old play games that give you reward for murdering people. I mean, with 7 years? No.

If you really want to give him a FPS experience, I could recommend Nerf Arena Blast (Which seems to be free on abandonware sites). Don't give him adult content at that age.

I don't want to be off topic but what your wife opinion about all this?

Thief will be too difficult I think.

Try Serious Sam, Painkiller, Quake 3, Unreal Tournament with bots, Saints Row, Postal 1 & 2, Half-Life.
Why FPS and not Hack and Slash or Fighting games like Mortal Kombat, Street Fighter or Tekken?

It's sad to see so many people flaming you and even calling you a bad father because you're willing to let your young son play FPS games. Studies have already been done about this and they have shown that violent games don't have any negative effects on kids and that there's no correlation between violent video games and aggressive behavior in general.

I personally played violent and gory games at even younger age and they didn't mess me up. Children are not stupid, they know the difference between games and real world.

Anyway, since he's not that good at playing with both hands yet, maybe give him on-rails shooters like Blue Estate The Game? Unfortunately that seems to be the only good on-rails shooter on steam (didn't get it myself yet but it does look good).

The old Doom games, Shadow Warrior (the old one of course), Duke Nukem 3D should be easy enough, especially on lower difficulties. Serious Sam games should be easy enough on lower difficulties as well. Lets not forget about the Quake games. Maybe Metro games, I haven't played them so I don't know would they be too difficult for him. Singularity is a very good game.

If he's cool with top-down shooters I'd heavily recommend Alien/Zombie Shooter games. They are very enjoyable mindless shooters.

NOTHING !!! Let a 7-year old child be a child - and please dont let him see hard shooters or films.

Thats my sight - bye

Counter-Strike.

Or Half-Life.

Call of Barbie

I've played Doom 2 and Duke Nukem 3D when I was 6 or 7. Thinking back, I sucked at them pretty bad, but I enjoyed them. You mentioned Portal, how about The Talos Principle?

How about Battleborn ?

Slime Rancher (this is what you are looking for)

Tiny & Big (try this also if Slime Rancher is too cuddly)

Papo & Yo

SuperHot

Dino D-Day (you can be a Dinosaur on this one) not scary at all.

Creativerse

Portal Knights

Trove

Minecraft (everyone loves this)

Give him Overwatch

If you look for a FPS for your kid so I think this one is good http://store.steampowered.com/app/301970/

• I strongly recommend the Orcs Must Die 2(Not fps but a good Third person shooter & fun Tower defence) not only its good for kids but also its good for adults.
  Hope it helps..
  Have fun

Foreign Legion: Buckets of Blood

also +1 for Ocrs Must Die and maybe Dungeon Defenders 2 (it's free)

i started playing counter-strike when i was 6 yrs old, so what? :D

I played wolfenstein (original) when i was about 7 and i enjoy watching liveleak videos everyday..

Ahh definitely not hitman, its quite frustrarting and as far as i remember it from the ps2, if you fail at one point you need to redo a lot

Probably Orcs must die, or something like that :)

FPS and none of the game you ask us to chose is a FPS :D

I think you should consider Adventure genre too. It requires (mostly) only mouse input, extremely forgiving, some of them doesn't even have a decent story and (again, most of them) don't have extreme violence in it. I think Runaway series (and later Broken Sword) would be perfect if he decides that they are fun.

Also, my first game was Waxworks and let me tell you this: Horror games (especially psychological ones) doesn't work well with children. (:

But if you want him to develop motor skills to play with both hands, you should consider Portal. Basically the whole game is a tutorial. It should help.

holy potatoes isnt an FPS but a waiting game... sorta. its fun tho

dead bits lol