Lifelong Arcade
A growing database of games worth playing as we age.
Portal 2
Chapter 5
Grab a friend to play this first-person puzzle game where you fire portals to bend space and solve inventive spatial challenges. Witty and c…
View Stories (0)Sky: Children of the Light
Chapters 8, 11
An online multiplayer adventure where you glide through the clouds as a robed child carrying light to spirits who have lost their way. It ma…
View Stories (0)Spiritfarer
Chapter 8
A gentle management game where you ferry the spirits of the dead toward the afterlife, caring for each until they are ready to move on. Its…
View Stories (0)Stardew Valley
Chapters 1, 2, 6
A farming game where you leave a corporate job to build a life in a small rural community: growing crops, raising animals, and forming frien…
View Stories (0)Switch Sports
Chapter 10
A collection of accessible motion-controlled sports played by swinging the controller, from bowling to tennis.
View Stories (0)Tetris
Chapters 1, 3-4, 5-7, 10
The falling-block puzzle you probably know by sight, but it is a classic for good reason and heavily featured across the research on older p…
View Stories (1)The Legend of Zelda (any)
Chapters 1, 2, 5
Any Legend of Zelda game is great, but this recommendation is specifically for Breath of the Wild and Tears of the Kingdom. These are open-w…
View Stories (1)The Stanley Parable
Chapter 1
A wry first-person game about choice itself. A narrator describes what you are supposed to do while you decide whether to obey or rebel, but…
View Stories (0)Unpacking
Chapters 2, 4, 10
A meditative puzzle game where you unpack boxes into rooms across the stages of a person's life. There is almost no way to fail; the story e…
View Stories (0)Wingspan
Chapter 13
A tableau-building board game where you attract birds to your habitats, each new species unlocking abilities that make your next turns stron…
View Stories (0)World of Warcraft
Chapters 1-3, 5-8, 10, 12
Perhaps the most researched video game ever. The cultural impact of World of Warcraft and its subscription-based online world is hard to ov…
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