The Silent Age
LumiScore
Growth
35/100
Growth Value
- Problem Solving
- Reading & Language
- Critical Thinking
Risk
LOW
Engagement Patterns
Minimal pressure to spend or play excessively.
Heads up
Parent Pro-Tip
This is a low-pressure game you can hand to a child and trust — just preview the mild horror atmosphere first if your child is sensitive to unsettling visuals or themes of death. Consider playing the opening chapter together to spark conversation about the time-travel story.
Top Skills Developed
Development Areas
Representation?How diverse the game's characters are in gender and ethnicity. Higher = more authentic representation. Display only — does not affect time recommendation.
Bechdel Test?The Bechdel Test checks whether a game has at least two named female characters who talk to each other about something other than a man. A simple measure of representation.— Fails the test
The provided game information does not mention any named female characters, thus failing the first criterion of the Bechdel test.
What your child develops
The Silent Age is a story-driven point-and-click adventure centered on environmental puzzles and a time-travel narrative, making critical thinking and observational reasoning its primary skills. Its atmospheric, text-rich storytelling rewards reading comprehension and patient inference rather than reflexes. The game also touches on themes of loneliness, purpose, and consequence, offering quiet opportunities for empathy and perspective-taking.
Regulatory Compliance
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About this game
###Point-and-click quest The game is a typical representative of the point-and-click puzzle genre, developed and released in two episodes by the independent Danish studio House on Fire. The game uses the Unity graphics engine and was ported directly to several platforms.