Lifelong Arcade
A growing database of games worth playing as we age.
Kerbal Space Program
Chapters 3, 8
A space-flight simulation game where you build rockets and learn real orbital physics through trial and error. Don’t be fooled by the goofy-…
View Stories (0)Kind Words
Chapter 8
A gentle game where you write supportive letters to strangers and reply to theirs, all set to calm music. There are no scores or rankings, j…
View Stories (0)Kingdom Come: Deliverance
Chapters 8, 12
A historical role-playing game set in medieval Bohemia with no fantasy elements. You play a commoner learning to read, fight, and survive, e…
View Stories (0)L.A. Noire
Chapters 1, 12
A detective adventure set in a painstakingly reconstructed 1947 Los Angeles, built from thousands of historical photographs. You investigate…
View Stories (0)Microsoft Flight Simulator
Chapters 3, 7, 10
Do not sleep on this, Lifelong Gamers. Microsoft Flight Simulator lets you fly anything from a single-engine propeller plane to an airliner…
View Stories (2)Minecraft
Chapters 1, 6, 7, 12
The only massive gaming platform in the list, as I found it a better entry point than Fortnite or Roblox. In short, it is an open sandbox of…
View Stories (0)Monikers
Not in the book
My favorite non-digital party game. Monikers is a simple card game that asks players to explain the celebrity, concept, or character on a ca…
View Stories (0)Mysterium
Not in the book
A cooperative board game where one player is a silent spirit who can communicate only through surreal illustrated cards, while everyone else…
View Stories (0)Nintendo Switch Sports
Chapter 10
A collection of accessible motion-controlled sports played by swinging the controller, from bowling to tennis.
View Stories (0)Papers, Please
Chapter 8
A dystopian puzzle game where you play a border inspector checking documents at a desk. Its interface mimics real paperwork so faithfully th…
View Stories (0)Patchwork
Not in the book
A game built strictly for two, where you buy oddly shaped fabric patches and fit them together into a quilt on your own board, Tetris-style.
View Stories (0)Pokémon Go
Chapters 3, 5, 12
A mobile game that overlays creature-catching onto the real world, encouraging you to walk your neighborhood to find and collect them. Its r…
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